Five Quintessential 1920s Collectibles


Tired of the current economic doom and gloom? Many collectors are turning to the 1920s, that great age of cultural vitality and prosperity, to lift the spirits. Here are five quintessential 1920s collectibles to consider for your collection.


Flapper Dress Perhaps nothing


embodies the 1920s scene more than the flapper dress. Flowing, loose and capable of displaying a healthy dose of knee (or even thigh!) when worn by a sufficiently energetic dancer, they are much sought-after today. Designer pieces, or those with particularly fine detail, can sell for big sums. Chanel garments are among the top names on the market, and can achieve up to £3,000. Yet original flapper


dresses from the 1920s needn’t break the bank – non-designer dresses in less than tip-top condition can be bought for as little as £50. Te decade’s biggest names, such as Chanel, Lanvin and Vionnet, rarely placed labels in their pieces. Tis means there will be thousands of designer pieces – no doubt last used the night before 1929’s Black Tursday – hung in wardrobes just waiting to be discovered.


58 waterfrontmagazines.co.uk Great Gatsby First Editions


After years spent trying to write “the big one”, F. Scott Fitzgerald finally got it right with Te Great Gatsby. Central to many people’s notion of the Roaring Twenties, the book was first published in 1925. Fitzgerald had escaped the New York scene in favour of the French Riviera the previous year, where he was able to apply himself to satirising the society he had left behind. A first edition, first printing sold for $163,500 in


2002, doubling its pre-sale estimate to set an auction record for the novel that remains to this day. Its striking fine-condition original pictorial dust jacket by Francis Cugat was among the item’s key selling points.


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