Just out of curiosity.
Do people on this forum collect anything else?
I collect old coins.
Where do people keep their collection? On display or stored/hidden away?
I have mine stashed away.
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Just out of curiosity.
Do people on this forum collect anything else?
I collect old coins.
Where do people keep their collection? On display or stored/hidden away?
I have mine stashed away.
i collect all kind of junk.
most gets crated and put away, till i get a wild hair and want to eye ball
I collect shed/cast whitetail and sika deer antlers.
They go into boxes, lay around etc.
Bald Eagle statues. They range from decanters to music boxes to brass and even plastic.
I collect glass target balls, vintage ammo boxes,early Winchester calendars and advertising, anything related to the Northwest Mounted Police and Northwest Rebellion of 1885, Bowie knives, traps, powder tins, decoys, Wild West Show Programs from Buffalo Bill's show, Winchester rifles and early Colt revolvers just to name a few things. I display them in my man cave and enjoy many hours in my room finding items I haven't seen in years
Old hand tools that are still usable, collector cars, Old money, Lighters and aches and pains as I get older.
Used to collect Japanese swords, fountain pens, pocket watches, RISE model airplane engines, some other stuff. Usually my interest shifted and I moved on, recycling much of what I'd previously obtained. Don't collect much of anything anymore, now living on a fixed income in the People's Republic of Taxiforniastan, waiting for the Prop 13 axe to fall. More interested in offloading what I still have rather than getting additional stuff in light of my increasing years versus declining physical condition. :ugh:
Nobody collects only one thing.
I collect:
M1 Carbines and related items
Knives, milyary and others
1911's
Razorblade sharpeners from 1890's-1950's
Shell Oil items
Willie Mays items
Other sports cards
Coins
Slot Cars
Hot Wheels
Pin Ball Machines
Wee Forest Folk
A few other things
Some get displayed, others come out for show and tell.
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I collect Staffordshire ceramic dogs which are positioned around the home and Persian rugs which the dogs and people trample everyday 🙁... weird but that's where my life has taken me.
Coins (Australian), Bank notes, Bayonets, ordnance, Japanese Shin Gunto, Collectible ammunition, Collectible cartridge packets, Rifles 303's (only have 6), World WWI-WWII mainly Aus history H/C 1st Ed's when I can suppose I have probably 1500-1800 titles, Lee enfield armourers tools, a wife!, and pretty much what ever takes my fancy.
JimF14 I have a pristine Corgi Mercedes Pullman in the original box also pristine with instructions it still has its hood ornament the model with the working windscreen wipers its the deep Burgundy colour. (Plus other small models of cars that were my Dads.)
Australian made VW performance parts from the 50's and 60's.
English language period VW performance books.
Oddball australian made wheels for 6V VW's.
VW factory tools and workshop manuals.
All sorts of other random VW related stuff.
The australian made performance parts and wheels equate to a very small collection. While i have about half of all the things i know of, there was less than 20 different items produced within the limited scope i have set myself.
Most things are packed away.
The books and manuals are where i can use them for reference.
Some of the tools are up on a pegboard in my shed, the boxed tools and the press tools are packed away.
Over the years I have collected many things and still have most of them. I no longer actively collect most of them but occasionally will add a new piece. Those with * are more active than others.
US stamps
US coins
Canadian coins
football cards
baseball cards
matchbox cars
ertl banks
Winross trucks
PA hunting licenses
Duck stamps
rifle and pistol cartridges
toy steam engines*
toy cars in general
military books*
1-72 Napoleonic figures
1-72 plastic airplanes
1-72 Civil War figures
military firearms*
bayonets*
shell casings*
general militaria*
Pops figures*
Itty Bitties*
NASCAR hero cards/autographs
NHRA hero cards/autographs*
diecast NASCAR
PA wildlife patches
x-files memorabilia
Military toys*
hunting/Pa Game Commission items
I mistakenly thought I collected things --- until I saw the collections and lists given by earlier respondents.
My list was what I could think of off the top of my head without wandering up to my den. Sitting here in my office I can already see three that I forgot and all are semi-active, soda bottles fishing lures and milk bottles. Oddly enough I married a woman that collected nothing although I more or less encouraged her to collect things as well and she collect Precious Moments, Itty Bitties and Beanie Babies. I pretty much know what she has and doesn't and it was my drive that keeps her at it so they are orbital collections.
I used to collect lots of things old bottles, old ammo boxes an powder cans, John Wayne stuff. but now mostly cow creamers. I fits firearm related it has to be something that catches my eyes.
I raced Slot Cars from 1967 until 2006. Lots of changes over the years. My 1974 Northern Calif winning time was 4.6 seconds around a King Track. Still have my Flash car from then. But in 2006 my time was 1.62 sec around the same track with an open class car. Tires, motors, bodies all cut down the times.Quote:
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I've also collected old adding machines ( glass sided type), check protectors, quack shock machines, tools. If it looks neat......
Attachment 88872 I managed to collect these this morning bowhunting, luckily they were still attached to the head when I found them.
In addition to old weird and military rifles and accoutrements, I also collect old tube radios, and to be honest that's where I have more interesting stuff. Most of my milsurps are common, but nonetheless fun to shoot. Sometimes the two hobbies intersect, like with this 1942 Zenith Portable Shortwave radio, It has a B-17 on the speaker cloth and these were reportedly very popular with servicemen because they could receive shortwave transmissions from the States.
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Reesy89, I collect vintage tools and restore them but I used them not just display; I've been on a USA made hand file and peening hammers binge lately. I'm also heavy into vintage restorations of all kinds of stuff, but love fixing mechanical things the most. 1940's Emerson US Government Desk Fan and a 50's Cosco step stool for my wife. Like I said we use everything I fix. I'm also an Ultra Runner which a hobby of sorts.... i guess?Quote:
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so where do you find tubes, etc, to repair these old timers? :dunno:
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thanks for the reply - one of my friends is just getting started, and I'll pass these along to him
I too raced slots for a while still have my Ruskit Chaparral 2D stashed away probably about the same time frame as as you JimF41 just when the angle winders were coming in I remember winning a race over 15 laps with it and won $1 I used MooToo traction goo on the tyres for extra grip to the slicks., I have a collection of R/C planes hung up in the shed plus a control line Spitfire a bit banged up after my wifes attempt to fly it (a 3 second one at that that despite my pleas not to try it!) I repaired it though also one brand new Challenger Hi-Wing with 2 hours air time engined with an O/S Max L/A another venture short lived lost interest to many tossers at that club.
Most people assume that tubes are the #1 thing to go bad in these radios. It's actually not, 70+ year old capacitors are the most failure prone components in any radio. Tubes are simply vacuum sealed pieces of metal and the number produced far exceeds the current demands.
And they are also available.
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Antique Radio Film Capacitors for Sale