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.

 

[old bear]

Do bills and ex-wives count?

At one time I collected vintage money clips. I was able to pick up several Tiffany brand money clips until the price of sterling silver went up, again. I think it's sad that many of the Silver money clips were melted down to be resold.

 

[Old_Cop]

Cars, pocket watches, police badges, patches, custom knives are the main items. I wish that I had only collected guns.

 

[Drm50]

Arrow heads, American coins & stamps, knives - actually I just
hoard these. Besides guns,my main collections are old fishing
lures and the old casting reels. I have been phasing out of
collecting anything but guns.

 

[sheepdawg]

Sports autographs, mostly baseball. So far I have HOFrs, Stan Musial, Sandy Koufax, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Carl Hubbell, Bill Mazeroski, Gaylord Perry, and Ferguson Jenkins. Many more stars to boot. This 1989 500 HR. ball is the star of the collection with Willie Mays, Mike Schmidt, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Eddie Mathews, Reggie Jackson, Harmon Killebrew, Frank Robinson, Willie McCovey and the two best on the sweet spot, Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle.

Throw golf legend Arnold Palmer in.

 

[les.b]

Besides all kinds of guns, ammo, and accessories ..... the thing I have the most of is... Books!!!

Best Regards, Les

 

[Protected One]

Movies on DVD (have about 800), and books (qty: unknown)

 

[steamloco76]

I'm an accumulator of Railroad books, Civil War Books, knives, multi-tools, airguns, and local historical photos/artifacts. I gave up on stamps and coins because they ate into my guns and ammo budget!

My wife is a big time book and DVD-Blue Ray collector. She is also 100% addicted to adult coloring books. We may need a new wing on our place just for coloring books!

 

[loknload]

When we travel we find the local Hard Rock Cafe and l collect their pins.
People who travel overseas bring them back from other countries for me as well.
I had special window boxes made for them for display.
Have collected quite a few over the years and I usually keep them from places I have been and I like the guitar pins the best. My daughter and my English daughter have given me the ones from over in Europe.

 

[jag312]

I collect paintings by Astley D. M. Cooper and Benjamin O'Fallon Raborg. Here are some Cooper paintings.

 

[jag312]

Here are a few more Cooper paintings.