What Else Do You Collect Besides Firearms?

[Kobold_27]

While I doubt that my addiction to collecting guns, especially N frames, will ever end, there are some things that I used to collect that I simply do not have the same passion for anymore. For me it started with knives when I was a kid, that itch still needs being scratched now and then to this day, but I have also collected watches, custom handgun grips, books, coins, rare music pressings in vinyl and CD, and vintage Webley & Scott air guns among other things.

I am curious to know what my fellow forum members did and/or still do collect besides firearms?

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Besides the usual knives, coins and a box of Smith grips-
I collect cookbooks.
I am also a map saver. I hate to throw them away.
I still have my SEA Go-Anywhere Map.

 

[Marshwheeling]

I would say I accumulate rather than collect. Knives, books, motorcycles. I have some pretty interesting toys from when my family was in the toy business, but nothing I would dignify as a "collection". Some Schuco windup cars, some Mamod steam engines, some old and new tin, and a few transformable Japanese robots from the '80s. Some English 3-speed bicycles. Dogs. A few coprolites. I have a good start on some canine pre-coprolites, but I will not live long enough to see them mature. Maybe the Eloi will find them.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Vintage guitars.

An endeavor that was both exhilarating and exasperating.

PS: it's not as lucrative as you would think.

 

[Tex1001]

Skeleton watches. Steampunk at its finest.

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I don't have Alzheimer's- My wife had me tested.

 

[whitestang]

I collect belt buckles. Most are transportation related.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I have collected US Army shoulder patches and Medals since I was 13. I too accumulate maps (my church once sent out a missionary team, with a restaurant placemat/map, it was the only map of the region to be found. Google Earth changed all that). I also collect English translations of the Bible, I have 35 printed and around 65 electronic.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My sister-in-law has forced me to collect ex brothers-in-law, my least favorite collection of all!

Ivan

 

[Bozz10mm]

Flashlights

 

[crazyphil]

I started collecting stamps when I was about 10. I have quite a few and
they must be at least 72 years old because I'm 82 now. Someday I will
have someone who knows stamps look them over and see if any of them
are valuable.

When I was travelling a lot, I collected matchbooks. I have a gallon jug
full of them. One of my favorites is from the Cat House in New Orleans

I collected VHS tapes. All the great old westerns. John Wayne, Clint
Eastwood, etc. etc. I must have about 150 of them. Of course they
are obsolete now.

I collected knives. Have automatics, lockbacks, semi-autos, assisted,
flippers, etc. etc.

I'm not really much of a gun collector. I only have 22 or 23 handguns.
Gave my long guns away many years ago. I told my wife. She said
"you did what? Are you crazy?" That's how I got the handle Crazy Phil.

My biggest obsession now, and for the past 17 years, has been holsters.
I have somewhere over 150. Still looking and still buying. Getting a
little cramped for space, but every now and then I see something that
I absolutely, positively, have to have.. You know what I mean?

One thing I have not collected are women. Found the right one early
and have had her now for over 60 years.

 

[TTSH]

What Else Do You Collect Besides Firearms?

That's easy. Magazines and ammo!

 

[Tom S.]

Coins, currency, Franklin/Danbury Mint cars and books.

 

[soFlaNative]

A stack of NatGeo magazines still in their clear mailing sleeves.
Don't think I've read one since finding this place a couple years ago.

 

[47knuckle]

other collections

Custom knives

 

[NYlakesider]

Hess trucks!

Long long ago my wife asked me what I wanted for Christmas as I'm a hard person to by things for. As I joke I said "Oh just get me a Hess truck"

Well she did and every year since then I get one, sometimes if there are a couple different ones I get all.

As I live in a post & beam house I have the beams running across my office space. I get the ladder and put the new one up on the beam, now I'm putting the new ones over the top of the first row.

Quick count I have over 35 trucks siting up there, all in the original wrappers.

Course the newer trucks now are "Speedway" after the acquisition changed names.

 

[dben002]

Tom Clark Knoms, Silver and Gold coins and my most expansive collection is Ex-girlfriends....

 

[DWalt]

Clocks and Fiestaware. But it has been a long time since adding any more, have too many already.

 

[Roadtrash]

Naps. I find a new one most every day or two. I believe there will be one coming my way later on today.

 

[kenv1950]

My sister-in-law has forced me to collect ex brothers-in-law, my least favorite collection of all!

Ivan

I thought I was the only one that had a collection of
ex brother-in-laws . I'm up to 4 at the moment

 

[old tanker]

I am not sure it is a collection, but, telegraph keys and bugs seem to accumulate.