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What do you collect (besides guns)?
Probably done before, but I was just wondering what other people collect, besides guns.
I collect screwdrivers, Keen Kutter items (an old brand name), and area milk bottles.
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Chinese art, especially carved stone. Each of the two pieces shown below were carved from one solid piece of agate. The artist saw the image in the solid block of stone and simply removed everything else.
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retribution and scorn from the wife???
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Dirt.
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I collect ridicule...we should do some trading!
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Knives, mostly Victorinox Swiss Army but a few German ones like Boker and Henckels.
Mechanical watches
Hand tools
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Walking Liberty Half Dollars;
Standing Libery Quarters;
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Antique furniture--my wife re-canes caned bottom chairs--she buys the junk ones--brings them home--I have to rebuild and refinish them and then she re-canes them.
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according to my wife -----JUNK---- according to me old hand tools and toys.My son just started to collect baseball cards , so she is outnumbered
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Is he an Cleveland Indian's fan? I have an extra set of these "Arby's 1995 tribe milestones" set of 8 cards. I had several stes but sold a few for $10 a set.
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Antique camera's.
Just a few of the 30 some I have scattered around.
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H Richard,It looks like you have some steins too.
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Local police badges, insulators, antique bottles, esp. local ones. Also Bay Area shipyard "stuff," esp. Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
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H Richard; Looks like a Retina 2A in the middle of the top photo. I took one to RVN in the pocket of my fatigues: took almost 100 rolls of film with it. The one on the top right looks like my father's Voightlander Avus, which he bought long before I was born. It still works, and I have a 120 roll film adapter for it. Also a plate holder if I can find some glass plates for it.
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Old pocket watches. None are very valuable, but I like them. The one I carry only varies about+/- 5 seconds a week. Doesn't need batteries either.
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Aches and pains, as I get older I seem to be increasing my collection quite a bit! The fruit of living hard when young, of course I would do it all again.
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gas station stuff, westclocks, yardsticks lots of good junk. Larry
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Vibroplex telegraph keys.
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I collect telephone glass insulators, or used to. I haven't been serious about it for years. Have a few good ones and one old threadless one that is valued at a $1000. Was really into it when I was still working for Ma Bell. Since retiring I have been too busy with competitive shooting and other hunting stuff.
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I'm getting too old to collect things now, guns are the exception. Everything I've collected over the years is slowly getting given to kids and grand kids.
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Holsters, what else ...
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Pocket knives, when I can afford them.
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arrow heads knifes old coins and ammo!
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Primary documents...
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Is that a Blue Racer key?
We found one about 10 years ago at an antique show. My son was studying for his ham license and wanted a key. I gave him my father's WWII key, and the Blue Racer. He took it to a ham fest locally to see what the old guys with experience had to say. They were impressed with the key, but more impressed with the box the key came in, and the original UPS wrapping. They'd never seen that before. I guess it was a good $20 I spent buying it....
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I accumulate foreign coins/currency, shot glasses and police memoribilia.
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No, that one is an "Original", presentation model with the chrome and gold. The Blue Racers have a narrower base. I have a WWII vintage BR in the black crinkle finish and a "Deluxe" chrome plated one. $20 would be a real steal for any Vibroplex, particularly a Blue Racer.
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I also collect U.S. military knives and bayonets. Here's a representative piece - an OSS stiletto with its original "pancake flipper" scabbard.
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Pocket knives, cop "stuff", old impact weapons (cosh's, convoys, saps, blackjacks, etc...) Military knives, Toyota 4-runner parts...gonna build mine back one day...and want to start collecting Southern Railroad Memorabilia..
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Guitars........Guitars.......Guitars.......can you have too many ?
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J.A. Henckels products, knives, razers, tools and marketing matterials. Henckels is the oldest manufacture of knives still in business today, founded in 1731.
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Once upon a time, many years ago, I had an attraction for fast women and slow horses.Now at 60 something my collecting has been reduced to carved owls’ and fond memories.
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Plumb bobs.
Cook books.
Other stuff, too.
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I collect autographs. Specifically baseball hall of fame members. For whatever reason I only collect signatures on baseballs. Don't remember why.
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I collect WWII militaria, mostly German stuff, it should not need saying that I am NOT some kind of neo-Nazi, and I do NOT agree with the ideology, but I do feel that it it important to remember history, and I do like the styles of the German WWII dagger, and some of the medals and badges.
I have always been a fan for the "Iron Cross" shape, be it WWI or WWII.
I try to do a theme sometimes, like a German WWII Police group.
Here is an SA Mann group
Here is a little SS group
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I like to collect marbles mostly. I have some really cool beer cans, one is a can of Busch Bavarian that is tin with the tab on the bottom, and it is full. I also collect pocket knives.
This year I have collected quite a few seed ticks and copperhead skins.
I also collect 1964 and below nickels. I am going to try my had at casting some silver rings when I have enough material and knowledge.
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Church Keys (Beer Can Openers)
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...I also collect 1964 and below nickels. I am going to try my had at casting some silver rings when I have enough material and knowledge.
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Did you perhaps mean 1964 and earlier quarters and/or dimes? With the exception of a very few part-silver nickels minted during WWII, there is no silver in nickels.
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Railroad pocket watches (Hamilton, Illinois and Eligin)
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I have collected police badges, patches & "stuff" like that for over 40 years. It's harder now to buy & trade with national security like it is. I want to know more about who I deal with.
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