30+ Rare Things People Love To Collect

Maker: Rookie Card
Original Price: $16.99*
Worth Today: $4.6 Million*

signed basketball cards are extremely valuable; for example, Antetokounmpo and LeBron James 2013-4 Patch rookie cards sold for $1.8 million apiece, as did a fragment of Michael Jordan’s used jersey that was transformed into a signed card for $1.44 million. The record-breaker is a signed single-print rookie card showing Dallas Mavericks point guard Luka Doncic, which sold for $4.6 million. Despite the fact that Doncic is only in his third NBA season, the record is unlikely to be broken anytime soon. Other rookie cards, such as Tom Brady’s, have sold for a lot of money, including $1.32 million for his. These cards are worth nearly as much as the players themselves, but not quite. Brady currently has $145 million, while Luka Doncic is valued $5 million.

Maker: John James Audubon
Original Price: $126*
Worth Today: $10.27 Million*

The Birds of America is a series of James Audubon prints featuring his hand-painted watercolor birds. The huge four-volume book set comprises 435 beautiful paintings, and only four copies are believed to exist. The book was auctioned in 2018 and sold for more than $10 million. Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. purchased the book and donated it to his family’s organization, the Knobloch Family organization (KFF), which focuses on conservation. The book’s proceeds will be used entirely for environmental concerns. Items like this are extremely rare and unusual, thus they don’t turn up very often. It’s even rarer to see them auctioned off for philanthropic purposes, so “Birds of America” deserves extra marks for this one. It’s improbable that James Audubon could have imagined such amazing things for his work.