Seems I've been collecting lighters and cigar cutters.
What else do you collect? I used to collect these.
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I have a collection of vintage Casting Reels and Fishing Lures.
I try to avoid starting any new collections and have lost interest
in the reel & lure collections. When I was in business I repaired
and sold fishing tackle. So I was able to get a lot of items by
accident. That's what started my collections. Now I stick to guns.
A lot of today's collectibles are going to end up like Beanie Babies
and beer can collections. Once the fad is over your collection is
worth nothing.
I try to avoid starting any new collections and have lost interest
in the reel & lure collections. When I was in business I repaired
and sold fishing tackle. So I was able to get a lot of items by
accident. That's what started my collections. Now I stick to guns.
A lot of today's collectibles are going to end up like Beanie Babies
and beer can collections. Once the fad is over your collection is
worth nothing.
BearBio
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A lot of things but most get used, so not really "collections", per se. Likely the only true collections are my wife's Barbies and her pin collection from various places we've been, especially Nat'l Parks & Monuments.
ParadiseRoad
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...pocket watches...film cameras...and books...lots and lots of books...
Had over 200 Zippos at one time.
Few left with old Joe Camel stuff.
Few left with old Joe Camel stuff.
Vintage camera's. Specifically Pre-war folding bellows cameras, but with quality lenses.
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Tesla coils, vintage Zeiss optics, Questar telescopes, precision measuring devices, bullet moulds, vintage Jensen G610B speakers, vacuum tube shortwave radios.
I collect memorabilia from the year 1939. Maps, books, photos, 1939 World's Fair souvenirs, etc. And I'm still seeking a nice S&W revolver that was documented to have been made in early 1939 to round out that collection. Perhaps someone here has one or can provide a lead? Yes, that was my birth year.
John
John
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Some collections are really weird. Back in the mid-1960s I worked for a large electronics company in Phoenix as a professional recruiter. It was company policy to pay for lock, stock and barrel household moves for hires from other locales.
Imagine my surprise and chagrin when one of our new hires disclosed that he had a very extensive anvil collection.
Blew my average cost for household moves way off the chart.
John
Imagine my surprise and chagrin when one of our new hires disclosed that he had a very extensive anvil collection.
Blew my average cost for household moves way off the chart.
John
There are a bunch of motorcycles out back, and quite a few English 3-speed bikes.there probably 70 or 80 knives on my shelves. From the days when we were in the toy business I have a few tin windups, including several Schuco cars, some cast Russian military vehicles, some elaborate Japanese Transformers from the ‘80s, and several Mamod steam engines. To top it all off, I have a Tibetan ringing bowl, a Curta pepper mill mechanical calculator and a 40 million-year-old turtle coprolite.
PPS1980
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Lovely pocketwatch! I'm a mechanical watch guy myself. Do you only collect American made pocket watches, those made specifically in PA, or all pocket watches?
bigolddave
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I seem to have a lot of gun and hunting printed matter--copies of all the Gun Digests, almost ninety years of American Rifleman, all the Double Gun Journals, all but a couple of Gun Report, about 250 books on firearms and hunting. And ten or so Savages: 1895, 1899, 99, 23C, and a Stevens 425, a very nice lever action that Savage killed when they bought Stevens.
All my stuff pales into insignificance compared to my wife's cookbook collection, over 3000, down from over 4000 the last few years.
All my stuff pales into insignificance compared to my wife's cookbook collection, over 3000, down from over 4000 the last few years.
Knives - made in US only. Either Buck or "traditional folders."
Bean Pots - made in Ohio only. (There were hundreds of pottery concerns in Ohio over the years).
Fire King dinner ware (but I have stopped and actually gave about half of my collection to my sister in law.)
Old table knives and forks - ebony or ivory handled.
Bean Pots - made in Ohio only. (There were hundreds of pottery concerns in Ohio over the years).
Fire King dinner ware (but I have stopped and actually gave about half of my collection to my sister in law.)
Old table knives and forks - ebony or ivory handled.
rog8732
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Long time ago I read one of those newspaper tid-bits about your birth month sign. I am Taurus, (May), and one of our attributes, (or failings) is the collector gene.
I used to use that as humorous justification to my bride when collecting all the "off-the-wall" things I have, but now, I know I just like "stuff".
I expect my kids will sell some of my thousand dollar "Luchesse" cowboy boots for $4 a set at a yard sale.
Ah well, I have adopted this philosophy about what I will leave behind to my kids: "Hope they enjoy selling it as much as I enjoyed buying it".
I used to use that as humorous justification to my bride when collecting all the "off-the-wall" things I have, but now, I know I just like "stuff".
I expect my kids will sell some of my thousand dollar "Luchesse" cowboy boots for $4 a set at a yard sale.
Ah well, I have adopted this philosophy about what I will leave behind to my kids: "Hope they enjoy selling it as much as I enjoyed buying it".
I've always collected something. Coins US & then foreign as I traveled. Swords when I could not collected guns due to foreign travel. Antique furniture for a while. Old Dinky toys from England (1940's into 1960's) a few years ago when I was in the toy business. Sold most over the years and then when my wife died sold everything except the firearms. Have been an active US military firearms collector (and related accoutrements) for the last 10 years. At 70 well and truly retired with my current wife, she gardens and I collect old guns and militaria.
zzzippper
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I seem to collect collections. I collected knives while I was in Kuwait and couldn't have my guns. In Korea I collected die-cast airplanes and tanks when I couldn't have my guns or knives. Now I can't get rid of the airplanes.
I collected WWII guns until I realized that they made them faster than I could collect them.
I collected American Eagles until I needed money and sold them.
I collected US envelope/stamp cancellations in several genres. Cancelled envelopes from every ship that was in Pearl Harbor on 7 December. Cancelled envelopes from each of the 50 destroyers that we loaned to Britain. Also covers from the Clipper airplanes across the Pacific.
Now I've been collecting autographed baseballs from the St. Louis Cardinals. I have the starting line up of the 1967 Cardinals and three of the pitchers. Roger Maris and one other are replicas because they are priced in the $1000+ range. I have every living Cardinal in the HOF with the annotation "HOF XX" for the year they were inducted. That case has a ball with the Cardinals' logo on it for a place holder for Yadi Molina when he gets inducted. I have a Keith Hernandez "10x GG" and an Ozzie Smith "13x GG" in a case together resting on...Gold Gloves, of course.
I also collect VERY good whiskeys.
Taken altogether I have also collected debt.
I collected WWII guns until I realized that they made them faster than I could collect them.
I collected American Eagles until I needed money and sold them.
I collected US envelope/stamp cancellations in several genres. Cancelled envelopes from every ship that was in Pearl Harbor on 7 December. Cancelled envelopes from each of the 50 destroyers that we loaned to Britain. Also covers from the Clipper airplanes across the Pacific.
Now I've been collecting autographed baseballs from the St. Louis Cardinals. I have the starting line up of the 1967 Cardinals and three of the pitchers. Roger Maris and one other are replicas because they are priced in the $1000+ range. I have every living Cardinal in the HOF with the annotation "HOF XX" for the year they were inducted. That case has a ball with the Cardinals' logo on it for a place holder for Yadi Molina when he gets inducted. I have a Keith Hernandez "10x GG" and an Ozzie Smith "13x GG" in a case together resting on...Gold Gloves, of course.
I also collect VERY good whiskeys.
Taken altogether I have also collected debt.
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I've got a box full of those old glass insulators. Found 'em back in the woods along an old long ago abandoned train track.
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