So what else do you collect?

[David LaPell]

So what else do you have that you collect? I remember as a kid collecting Matchbox Cars. I wish my parents had kept them considering what some are worth. I had hundreds of cars. I got an allowance of $3 a week for helping out, and since they were cheap, I would usually get three cars or at least one. Birthdays, Christmas was filled with tons of these things. I had all the cases and an wooden packing crate filled with those cars.
I have a few cars now, but they are bigger and have more significance. I have a couple of S & W cars, but a few more. I have a 1/24 Crown Vic that was our first formal transport car (we had three) with our department, the new ones are blue and I am some day going to have one of those done. The white diplomat is identical to the car my father had growing up in Rouses Point, NY. The department was so laid back that I remember going with him to get the car, and watching him put the decal, just a simple seal, on each side of the car in our driveway. it was like Mayberry, I remember during the summer going with him on calls, not that we had alot, but I remember a couple of really good brush fires. Can you imagine doing that now? I was only 6-7 years old! In the middle case are a couple of my older cars. The red Thunderbird is very special, its the only car of my original collection I still have, it was given to me by my grandfather at my birthday when I was only around 6 if I remember right. The Ford Bulletnose is my favorite car. The #40 car is a gift for my son, along with the black Studebaker to get him started with.

 

[Pistolpete1969]

Hats; specifically fedora & good fur felt hats. I wear 'em.

Grief from my wife.....lol

 

[perrazi]

used to collect vintage cigars until i had to quit smoking them. sold the collection en masse with the pendegast cabinet humidor.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

So what else do you collect???

Why Royal Wedding Memorabilia of course!!!!!!!!!!!
12 Most Bizarre 'Royal Wedding' Merchandise - Oddee.com

 

[jag312]

Gun related; I collect cartridges.

Non-gun collection; I collect paintings by A.D.M. Cooper and Benjamin Raborg, two California artists. Do 4 motorcycles constitute a collection?

 

[deadin]

Do 4 motorcycles constitute a collection?

I've alway unerstood that if you have 3 or more of anything it can be considered a collection. If that's true I guess that I have a collection of collections......

 

[Qball]

I have a few "HotWheels" cars
and razors

 

[corpulent]

Ex-wives. . .

 

[Pioneer461]

Magnets. For the past several years I have collected "tourist" magnets from the various places I've been able to visit. Most are from the US, mostly the western states, plus various cities in England, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Holland, France, Spain, Italy, Vatican City, Monaco, Canada and Mexico. My wife won't let me put them all on "her" refrigerator, so most wind up on my gun safes. I have tee shirts from many of those places as well.

"Been there, done that, got the tee shirt." ​

 

[kshock]

Dust....and aches and pains

 

[BigBill]

Dinky toys from my childhood as a kid. You can see them on ebay. These are diecast metal cars/trucks and military vechicles from england. The older prewar ww2 they have real link tracks on the tanks and personal carriers. I want to had them down to my grandkids someday so they can enjoy them too.

I have old tractors too.

I have collected everything now but women. I haven't gotten that far yet.

When i became ill i sold off my vintage collection of 25 husqvarna dirtbikes all restored and running with a warehouse of parts. Bill

 

[rock doc]

Jack Daniel's shot glasses & old quack "magical cure" medicine bottles.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Used to kind of collect knives. Now I just have a lot of knives.

I have four sets of handcuffs, one of thumbcuffs, one of legcuffs, which may not seem like a lot, but I need none. A few ASP collapsible batons, but at least I've carried one or another a few times.

 

[jeepjeepwhat]

I used to collect matchbox cars, baseball cards, and rocks. Now I collect guns, decanters, old glass bottles, skulls (legally obtained game skulls), mileage on my vehicle, and money.

 

[jeepjeepwhat]

Also when I was younger I had a "bullet collection" which I tried to get an unfired round of every caliber I could find. Now I try to collect as many of every caliber I can find.

 

[cass]

Dietz lanterns and chess sets.

 

[jlrhiner]

Fountain pens, yo-yo's and I have alot of the early matchbox cars and the first 12 or so Hot Wheels. (along with a bunch of the others)

 

[Rick Shaw]

I have been collecting, buying, selling knives of all types for years. I am especially fond of the knives that are hand forged, no matter how crude they might be. There is just something about knowing the sweat and toil that went into creating it.

I also enjoy handcrafted holsters from all eras. It is interesting how styles and tastes have changed in holsters over the years. Currently, it seems that "exotic leathers" and detailed hand boning is espeically popular..

 

[41collector]

Bird Knives. The ones with the gut hook. Started out just carrying one as I bird hunt a lot. Started finding others and now have probably 50.

 

[RobertJ.]

Bowie knives, old rifle and pistol cartridges, and paper shotgun shells.