Hobby Thread - Sept 7, 2024 [TRex]

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Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the horde in this little corner of the interweb. A spin of the Ace of Spades wheel of hobbies has come up with a theme of collecting for this week.

What do you collect? Is it wierd or unusual? How did you get started collecting your items of choice? Do you collect thinking that your treasures will increase in value or are economics irrelevant? Do you display your collection or pieces from your collection or are you content with owning the items? If you display, how do you display? Have you build custom shelving or displays? Does part of your collection reside in boxes, mostly unseen by human eyes? Do you track what you collect? Have you found a marvelous treasure only to find out later you already had one and forgot about it?

Do you buy in-person, on-line or both? Do you haunt auctions, garage sales, estate sales, etc.? Do you ever sell or trade or do you only acquire? Do you have a tradition of picking up a souvenir from every place you travel? Have you made plans for what will happen with your collectibles after you have breathed your last? Do you share your collection with others or is your collection a solo endeavor? Do you collect toys or legos? Do you collect decorations for a particular holiday? What collections have you seen assembled by others that were memorable, inspired respect, or were head-shakingly puzzling? What did you collect as a child? Do you still have a stash somewhere of a childhood collection? Did it stick with you or did the idea pass as you moved on to other things? Do you collect things that nobody else would value or care about?

TRex is detailed for duty elsewhere at an undisclosed location, so looking for horde help to make this work and honor hobby thread etiquette. Ben Had is authorized to maintain order and make entries on permanent records as needed. We're here to talk about collections and collectors. We are looking for passion projects of individuals rather than museums that have accumulated holdings over decades. Collections don't need to be rare or valuable - just important to the collector. We are looking for purposeful collecting - as opposed to hoarding or accumulating stuff. Maybe collections of the horde can become the themes of future hobby threads. Please keep the collections of discussion tasteful - no body parts or human souls. (Sorry Zod.)

While firearms and ammo might qualify as collectibles, let's leave gubs to the Sunday evening thread and find other interests for this thread. As usual, keep this thread limited to hobbies. Politics and current events can wait for other threads. Play nice. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls. Pants not required.

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Whenever I show my collection off to someone.

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36 Unusual collections - monolopoly games, plastic ducks, air sickness bags, golf balls, pez dispensers, traffic cones, garden gnomes, Coca Cola cans, dinosaur poop, milk bottles, bricks, toasters, cookie jars, pizza boxes, and more.

More random collections of random things:
A Growing Antique Garden Tool Collection
Dwight Cleveland's Movie Poster Collection Stars as Largest in The World
Introduction to License Plate Collecting - from the Automobile License Plate Collectors Association
Inside the world’s biggest record collection: An interview with Zero Freitas
Rancho Obi-Wan houses the world’s largest Star Wars memorabilia collection.
The man with most baseball cards on Earth
The Beginner’s Guide to Antique Spoons

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Example of a random private collection: scissors. Photo courtesy of Jim Golden:

With this particular project, what was your inspiration to shoot it?
My friend Rob has a scissor collection, I knew I wanted to make a survey of the most interesting pieces, but I wasn’t sure how I was going to do it. He gave me his favorite 700 and said good luck. After a week of pulling my hair out it dawned on me to use the classic top-down apparel format to translate the idea. Boom, project kicked off.

If you like that photo, Jim shot photos of other random collections as well.

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The largest collection of Legos in the world per the Guinness Book of World Records:

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John Deere toy collector:

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Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson has an amazing private collection of space artifacts:

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One of the biggest private Matchbox collections in the world - part 1 of 4 parts:

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What you need to know about storing stamp collections:

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Spiral wine cellars for wine collections? Guess so!

How to organize your wine cellar

Mastering Wine Cellar Organization: Tips and Strategies

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Some consider William Buell Sprague the father of collecting in America. That may be an overstatement, but there is no question that he diligently assembled a massive collection of early American autographs. We was a well-known Presbyterian pastor but history likely will remember him for being the first to assemble a full set of autographs by each of the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence (the first of three) and a full set of autographs by each of Washington’s generals. He built a massive collection.

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Nana Baubles:

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Jay Leno does not typically open his garage for tours, but this walk around with Tim Burton gives brief sense of what is inside Jays Big Dog Garage. Some of my favorites are in the room with cars powered by airplane engines (minutes five through eight). There is a lot more there and Jay knows a LOT about the engineering, design and history of his cars and bikes. He has never sold a thing.

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The largest private collection of tubas - in the world:

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Seven Keys Lodge in Estes, Colorado features a collection of keys. The book - Seven Keys to Baldpate - was written in 1913 and inspired the name of the inn which was first the Baldpate Inn before becoming Seven Keys Lodge. The hotel had a tradition to give a single metal key as a memento of their stay to each person, saying that it was the One and only key to Baldpate. During World War I, the price of metal increased which caused a reconsideration of the tradition. Lore has it that Clarence Darrow suggested that the hotel should see if guests would be willing to leave a key instead. He left the first key and now thousands of keys hang from the ceiling.

Keys of distinction have found their way. Notable keys are purportedly from Westminster Abbey, Mozarts wine cellar, Frankensteins Castle, Adolf Hitlers bunker, the Pentagon, a White House bathroom, keys to robbed banks, and the dressing rooms of Hollywood actors.

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What will happen to all the stuff in the shop of Adam Savage (of Mythbuster fame) after he dies?

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Did you miss the hobby thread last week with a model building theme? The horde shared some great stories. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

Notable comments from last week:

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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If collecting is not your thing and you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, hijack the thread for your hobbying as you see fit. We will feature a different hobby next time around. Send thoughts or suggestions to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Ace of Spades medical coverage does not cover hoarding.

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1 Welcome Hobbiests

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2024 05:30 PM (fwDg9)

2 Frankensteins Castle, Adolf Hitlers bunker,

I TOLD YOU THERE WAS A TUNNEL!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 07, 2024 05:34 PM (8tkni)

3 No more collecting for me. Decluttering is heaven.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 05:34 PM (wNh9V)

4 I collect sterling silver, blued steel bits. They all have a provenance coming from the best silversmiths in the world.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 05:36 PM (G3Ji7)

5 I added another amateur radio kit to the collection recently. It shall remain a large bag of parts until I get more time to practice soldering on all the cheaper little kits that are piled up.

I did a SOTA activation this morning. Had to be persistent to get my 4 contacts, but the first one out of the gate was with a Japanese operator.

Posted by: PabloD at September 07, 2024 05:37 PM (lUpXd)

6 I have started a Team Yankee WWIII Desert Storm army. 15mm modern stuff that has some very detailed models and figures.

https://www.team-yankee.com/

I have been collecting, painting and playing this game system for almost 10 years now. And I have played it's parent game Flames of War since it's inception over 20 years ago.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 07, 2024 05:38 PM (QNSds)

7 HF DX conditions excellent lately. I've been logging plenty of new gridsquares. I wrote a little snippet of Python that does kinda what GridMapper and JTAlert do: alert me when the rig hears traffic from a new-to-me gridsquare. It's helped a lot.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 05:38 PM (wNh9V)

8 I collect video games, and it's mostly stuff I've accumulated over the years since I first started playing them as a kid in the mid-80s. It starts with the Nintendo Entertainment System and goes all the way up to modern-day stuff, although the XBOX Series X is probably going to be the last console I ever buy unless Nintendo knocks it out of the park with the Switch 2.

I could have made a mint selling off my collection during the pandemic since video games were one of the few areas that did really well, what with going outside being made illegal and all. I started trying to value everything for a side project I'm working on (pricecharting.com is the go-to although it has its flaws since it's based on eBay sales) and was honestly shocked at how much it was worth in total.

I'm not in this hobby to make money, though. I regularly play with them daily. The thing is I could probably cash out and be fine since there are currently lots of ways to actually play the games even without the hardware. It's getting harder every day though thanks to Nintendo going nuts cracking down on ROM sites.

Posted by: MrUNIVAC at September 07, 2024 05:38 PM (digQz)

9 I have dolls; I stop collecting them about 35 years ago, but there are still too many. My favorite-a foot high of so Queen Elizabeth I doll with a lovely porcelain head and hand made black silk looking outfit with little stitched on (fake) pearls and embroidered sleeves. Oldest one is from the 1700's-a think it's a figure of Mary (Our Lady of Sorrows) because it's on a pedestal. Next oldest ones are from the 1840's (upside down dolls) from my Great Grandmother You turn it on one side and you have one doll-turn it upside down and it's another doll.. They are probably considered politically incorrect because two of the dolls are obviously black Servants.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2024 05:38 PM (dTTBf)

10 Most known around here, I collect 15mm Napoleonic era miniatures
And this picture is missing 1 box
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I have over 5,000 men, and a few women
Over 1,000 horses, maybe 60 vehicles

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2024 05:41 PM (fwDg9)

11 Oh, yes. I have a hand made doll house with shingles and hand made furniture. How am I going to give this to. I do not have any daughters or grandaughters, and do kids even play with this kind of stuff now?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2024 05:41 PM (dTTBf)

12 11-Who ? not How?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2024 05:42 PM (dTTBf)

13 5 I did my annual portable deployment last Saturday. FT-891, 30W, running off the car battery with a hamstick antenna on top. Logged two new stations each in Chile, Argentina and Cuba, plus a Mexico. The drill gives me a little more confidence in my ecomms preparedness. But I much prefer running my base station, so I do the portable thing only once or twice a year. I think this month is ARRL's 'gobox' month.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 05:43 PM (wNh9V)

14 Afternoon, hobby folken,

None of my collecting has been jaw-dropping in its rarity or comprehensivness. My major thing for decades has been Man From U.N.C.L.E. memorabilia. I have all 23 of the Ace original novels, all but one or two of the digest-sizes magazines, a replica U.N.C.L.E. Special (the famous gun that converted to a carbine), an incomplete pack of the bubble-gum cards, magazines galore including the TV Guides with the early article on written by Peter Bogdanovich and the parody by Ronald Searle; etc. I even have, partly painted but unassembled, the Aurora model kits of Solo and Illya.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 05:43 PM (omVj0)

15 Among my hobbies is 3d printing. For the Texas MoMe this year, I'm 3d printing badges. If anyone attending the TX MoMe this year is interested in a badge, send me an email (link in my sig) to get details.

I have a photo of the one I made for me, I just haven't remembered to send it to any of the usual suspects.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 07, 2024 05:45 PM (iZEhM)

16 gp - I'm focusing on SOTA while the weather is still good. When it starts to turn, I'll focus on getting my base station set up. I still haven't settled on an antenna for the new QTH. Eventually I'll just have to put up SOMETHING and worry about improving upon it later.

Posted by: PabloD at September 07, 2024 05:47 PM (lUpXd)

17 Cybersmythe, how very kind. Thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 05:47 PM (G3Ji7)

18 Two mini-collecting hobbies of usable items: vintage and modern tobacco pipes, and vintage and modern safety razors. My oldest pipe, a Dr. Grabow, dates (probably) to the 1930s, as does my oldest razor, a Gillette NEW open-comb, both well-refurbished by their sellers. And I use items from both groups; they are not just display queens.

I even have a birth year razor, a Gillette Super Speed, the "butterfly" type where you twist the bottom of the handle and the doors crank open so you can change the blade. If I ever run across a pipe from my birth year, like a Dunhill ($$$), I'll consider grabbing it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 05:47 PM (omVj0)

19 Eh, I don't collect anything anymore. Have stamps, coins, first day covers, foreign money, but mostly all I seem to collect now is bills.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2024 05:48 PM (0eaVi)

20 I was crestfallen when Jamie reveled that he and Adam were not friends and in fact did not get along for most of mythbusters run. In fact he revealed that in the decades they worked together they never had dinner together outside of some function for the show.

Oh well, I took possession of a 3d printer and am now in the process of learning the ins and outs of it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 07, 2024 05:50 PM (XV/Pl)

21 "I still haven't settled on an antenna for the new QTH."

I have two EFHWs, a 10-40 and a 10-80, and an indoor 6m dipole. 50W and just wires in trees work wonders for me.

"Eventually I'll just have to put up SOMETHING and worry about improving upon it later."

That's what I like to hear!

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 05:50 PM (wNh9V)

22 I used to collect Magic: The Gathering cards.

I have around 60-70K of them right now...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 07, 2024 05:51 PM (BpYfr)

23 I'm celebrating the 1st anniversary of the installation of my 2 150w CIGS solar panels on my truck cap. The adhesive is still tight and the panels work as well as the day they were installed.

Posted by: mrp at September 07, 2024 05:52 PM (rj6Yv)

24 Sunday evening the MeTV channel has a show called "Collector's Call" that's all about (of course) collections. The one this Sunday just happens to be about my old friend (and now big-time VA) Wally Wingert and his collection of props and costumes. Whatever you like, there's probably a collection out there that will eventually show up on this show. They just announced that they've been renewed for next year.
And if you have a good enough collection, maybe you can be on it.

Posted by: KCSteve at September 07, 2024 05:52 PM (bxAlI)

25 I have a collection of women's homemaking magazines and books that has ebbed and flowed over the years. It is entirely for my own enjoyment.

I am fascinated by the things in them that change and those that remain the same- fashions in food, home decor, gardens. Innovations and improvements in home building, appliances and home goods. National and even international issues- my 1918 Good Housekeeping has an article on "What is Bolshevism?"

Now that I am rather vintage myself, I am looking for some issues that I recall reading myself back in the '60s and 70s.

Posted by: sal at September 07, 2024 05:53 PM (bx3Km)

26 I suppose in my model-building days I was collecting them. I went through various phases: snap-together Birds of the World and Animals of the World; then the Aurora Universal monster kits; then cars and custom cars; ships, first WWII subs and surface vessels, then sailing ship kits like Drake's Golden Hind and the HMS Bounty; and finally a couple of tanks, a WWII German King Tiger and a modern West German Leopard.

If I had them all today, and they were intact, they would probably fill a room like the Collector's Corner TV series with Lisa Whelchel.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 05:54 PM (omVj0)

27 KCSteve, that's it, Collector's Call, not "Corner."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 05:54 PM (omVj0)

28 Flipside of collecting is hoarding. I've been helping a guy out in the sticks clean up his property. Man oh man, it's hard to convince him to let go of worthless stuff. The frustration is more exhausting to me than the physical labor is.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 05:56 PM (wNh9V)

29 If I collect anything, it's 12v 167AH+ LiFePo batteries and powerstations. A helpful hobby for when the power goes out or when I want to run a CPAP machine while camping.

Posted by: mrp at September 07, 2024 05:57 PM (rj6Yv)

30 Flipside of collecting is hoarding. I've been helping a guy out in the sticks clean up his property. Man oh man, it's hard to convince him to let go of worthless stuff. The frustration is more exhausting to me than the physical labor is.
Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 05:56 PM (wNh9V)

Yeah, I'd like to get rid of a lot of my stuff. Oldest knows a collector with a store who I sold some old records and movie posters to. Wouldn't mind trying to get rid of the coins, stamps, and other stuff, but it's a couple hours away.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2024 05:57 PM (0eaVi)

31 Thank you TRex for this subject and I know I'm way willowed as usual. All of your questions in the introduction apply to me! I am a collector of signed first edition books. I have a complete set of signed first edition Larry McMurtry, Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch), Elmore Leonard, Tom Clancy, Robert B. Parker (Spencer only), Lee Child (before his brother), and Frederick Forsyth books (how's that for an eclectic assortment!). I know my son will give them away or sell them for a dollar!

posted in the wrong thread previously!!

Posted by: Jayhawkone at September 07, 2024 05:58 PM (9rPx3)

32 I started collecting Barbie dolls and also 11-inch pop star dolls about 35 years ago.

I have a substantial collection but I haven't added anything in about 25 years. I lost the urge to collect.

It's all carefully stored and put away. When I'm gone, I expect my daughters will sell it off for a pretty penny.

Posted by: jix at September 07, 2024 05:58 PM (VghtP)

33 I look around at all the things I have used in my trade that I no longer need and tell myself now is the time to let them go. The memories attached to them I will always have.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 05:59 PM (G3Ji7)

34 @#5. Posted by: PabloD at September 07, 2024 05:37 PM (lUpXd)
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Hello, a talk show host has been discussing HAM radios and the use of them in emergencies. Is this something a 29+ geezer can ease in to? Is it expensive? TIA.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at September 07, 2024 06:00 PM (i1q6+)

35 30 I'm talking frayed bald tires buried in mud for 30 years. That kind of hoarding.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 06:00 PM (wNh9V)

36 The Son of the Republic of TX- Mr. S- has a very large library of Texana, collected over several decades.
He has detailed instructions on how to disperse it when he's gone, which is very thoughtful.
I should send the Perfesser a photo...

Posted by: sal at September 07, 2024 06:00 PM (bx3Km)

37 I was crestfallen when Jamie reveled that he and Adam were not friends and in fact did not get along for most of mythbusters run. In fact he revealed that in the decades they worked together they never had dinner together outside of some function for the show.

Oh well, I took possession of a 3d printer and am now in the process of learning the ins and outs of it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 07, 2024

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I try not to read "behind the scenes" "tell-all" bits about my favorite movies or TV shows. Recently I found out that John Wayne did not get along well with Kim Darby during the filming of True Grit, as she was more of a Method actor, alien to his technique. I don't need to hear or read about these things, I really don't.

On the other hand, Johnny Crawford has always said that he admired and got along great with his TV dad on The Rifleman, Chuck Connors; and Robert Vaughn and David McCallum were good friends on U.N.C.L.E., despite the fan-magazine stories about some feud between them back in the day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:00 PM (omVj0)

38 Werner wishes to inquire regarding the absence of stamp collecting. Of course, it may be included somewhere above and my aged eyes just missed it. (Werner turned 82 two days ago.) Well do I remember the European nations, many postage -sized themselves, whose issuance of striking commemorative stamps was a major part of their economy. San Marino, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Andorra, the Vatican, Navarre, Cleveland, all of these were noted during the twentieth century and...wait, one of those may not have been a European nation. Werner is puzzled as to which this might be. This is a mystery that may elude us. Werner digs the postage stamps. Andorra, maybe, was the odd man out? Such things are beyond Werner at this time. Ach.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 07, 2024 06:00 PM (tcQGp)

39 34 Best place to start: arrl.org.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 06:01 PM (wNh9V)

40 My frequent commenting about movies and TV means, I guess, I'm a collector of movie and TV trivia. So there.

A member of my former writing group has told me I ought to start a blog with my ruminations on the subject. That could be a hobby.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:02 PM (omVj0)

41 I'm talking frayed bald tires buried in mud for 30 years. That kind of hoarding.
Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 06:00 PM (wNh9V)

Like the guy who lets old classic cars rot in a field instead of selling one to you?

I get the junk just rotting is ridiculous. Maybe he doesn't have the ability to remove them.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2024 06:02 PM (0eaVi)

42 Cybersmythe, how very kind. Thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 05:47 PM

I'm only creating them for people who want them. You'll still have to set out badging materials for the usual suspects.

Speaking of which, do you want one?

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 07, 2024 06:02 PM (iZEhM)

43 I'm making progress in getting back into ham radio. I actually turned the radios on this week. Once I get rid of the dead wasps in the shack, it'll be much nicer to be in.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 07, 2024 06:03 PM (iZEhM)

44 Thanks for the correction Wolfus Aurelius - it's a show I only occasionally watch, although the DVR is set to get it so I was only close on the name.
Tomorrow's episode is the one I've been waiting for, of course.

Posted by: KCSteve at September 07, 2024 06:04 PM (bxAlI)

45 and Robert Vaughn and David McCallum were good friends on U.N.C.L.E., despite the fan-magazine stories about some feud between them back in the day.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:00 PM (omVj0)

I wonder if some nut made fanfic of them like they did with Kirk and Spock.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2024 06:04 PM (0eaVi)

46 Crikey, I just looked at a valuation of a Las Cruces bit. $ 18,500.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 06:04 PM (G3Ji7)

47 I have a modest coin collection. Probably a couple K worth of silver and gold coins. Any buyers here?

I have an old, two volume set on the Civil War... printed in the late 1800's. Poor shape. Probably not a "collection." It does have some cool maps however.

There's also about a dozen men's watches. Mediocre quality throughout. Don't wear any of them.

I also have a cigar collection that I piss away daily by smoking one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2024 06:05 PM (Q4IgG)

48 When I was in grade school, a company named Hartland produced two lines of Western TV figures, mounted ones with horse and saddle, and the "Gunfighters" series with the standing figure. Usually the hat and gun were detachable. There was even a Bat Masterson figure with his cane! I had a slew of them, and some had chipped paint here and there from play, but were intact.

My mother kept them and stashed them in a cabinet. I found them when I was cleaning out her apartment after she passed . . . and, in an emotional storm from that and my impending divorce, I left them behind. I wonder if the owners found them, or if any succeeding tenant did. They go for nice money on eBay now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:06 PM (omVj0)

49 Werner digs the postage stamps. Andorra, maybe, was the odd man out? Such things are beyond Werner at this time. Ach.
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 07, 2024 06:00 PM (tcQGp)

So, you kept using Dolphy's stamps after the war, with his face X'd out, didn't you?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2024 06:06 PM (0eaVi)

50 Yarn hoarders are the second worst.
People who put books out in the shed are the very worst.
Anathema sint.

Posted by: sal at September 07, 2024 06:07 PM (bx3Km)

51 I collect beer bottles. I don't get crazy with it. But as my wife and I travel around the country. I sample all kinds of local beers and keep the bottles for my collection. They're not worth anything. But I still enjoy it.
One of my favorite bottles is polygamy Porter. It has a picture on the bottle of a guy hugging 2 women. And the caption says "why have just one".

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 07, 2024 06:08 PM (Lo97M)

52 Robert Vaughn and David McCallum were good friends on U.N.C.L.E., despite the fan-magazine stories about some feud between them back in the day.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:00 PM (omVj0)
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I wonder if some nut made fanfic of them like they did with Kirk and Spock.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2024

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OE, if you mean the "slash" fiction, oh yes there is, and quite a bit. It gives me the willies even to read a little of it. It's as if you were to read a story in which John Wayne's Hondo Lane and Alan Ladd's Shane were to have a long-standing "relationship" a la Brokeback Mountain(!).

Mostly women writers go in for that stuff. There are good women fanfic writers, but the storytellers in MfU fic are mostly men.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:09 PM (omVj0)

53 41 He's just sure that everything he owns is worth far more than it is. Anytime he hears word-of-mouth about something big, heavy, and free, he phones to have it dropped off on his property. "Because I'm cheap" he says. "Because you're a hoarder" I say.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 06:11 PM (wNh9V)

54 OE, if you mean the "slash" fiction, oh yes there is, and quite a bit. It gives me the willies even to read a little of it. It's as if you were to read a story in which John Wayne's Hondo Lane and Alan Ladd's Shane were to have a long-standing "relationship" a la Brokeback Mountain(!).

Mostly women writers go in for that stuff. There are good women fanfic writers, but the storytellers in MfU fic are mostly men.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:09 PM (omVj0)

Yeah, that was it. I've heard more about women writing stories where they - the special one - was able to seduce Spock. Just seems weird to me. Not the fanfic genre, because it gets people to write, just the weird sexual fixations.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2024 06:12 PM (0eaVi)

55 Can't seem to get things into the right thread!"

Thank you TRex for this subject and I know I'm way willowed as usual. All of your questions in the introduction apply to me! I am a collector of signed first edition books. I have a complete set of signed first edition Larry McMurtry, Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch), Elmore Leonard, Tom Clancy, Robert B. Parker (Spencer only), Lee Child (before his brother), and Frederick Forsyth books (how's that for an eclectic assortment!). I know my son will give them away or sell them for a dollar!

Posted by: Jayhawkone at September 07, 2024 06:13 PM (9rPx3)

56 Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 06:11 PM (wNh9V)

Yeah, I shake my head at that. That stuff is worth nothing until you sell it. Rotting away in a field gets nothing.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2024 06:14 PM (0eaVi)

57 LOL... DOJ SEIZES 32 websites... including one for Russia Today, for being 'unregistered spokesmen' for... uh... Russia.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 07, 2024 06:16 PM (xaFKb)

58 Rufus - amateur radio is like most hobbies; it's as expensive as you'd like it to be. For reliable emergency comms, you could probably spend $1k and be in decent shape. But I think people oversell ham radio for emcomm, because it's not like if SHTF you'll just dial up a frequency and call the cavalry. It's part of the puzzle, but is not agic solution.

If you want specific info or a longer discussion, you can reach me at pablodoregon (at) Gmail dot com.

Posted by: PabloD at September 07, 2024 06:16 PM (lUpXd)

59 I don't have any collections per se. I have my dad's old coin collection, but it hasn't been taken care of.

The best give I ever gave my late father, who had an extensive stamp collection, was the stamps that I gathered when I was working the Iowa State University's Library mail room. I think he was tickled that someone would spend all year gathering stamps for him.

Many's the night he would sit in front of the television, making custom-sized window envelopes for his collection out of IBM punch cards and business-sized window envelopes he'd gotten in the mail.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 07, 2024 06:17 PM (iZEhM)

60 So, you kept using Dolphy's stamps after the war, with his face X'd out, didn't you?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

This is not exactly kind, but perhaps not ill-intentioned. For the record, Werner hates Nazis as much, if not more than the dashing archaeologist Professor Henry Jones, Junior. In the interest of accuracy, I provide the name he received at birth. They named the dog Indiana, as Sean Connery made clear beyond all doubt. Werner still does not understand how Indy was able to board the Untersee Boot in the original. Also, the inclusion of Shia LaBouef in the fourth film is most confusing. Someone had to sign off on this, and their judgment was not entirely sound.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 07, 2024 06:18 PM (tcQGp)

61 The Hobby Thread comes after the Pet Thread because cats and hobbies that require long term work ... do not mix!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 07, 2024 06:18 PM (HlyYF)

62 56 I love the guy, and he needs the help, and the exercise is good for me, so I do it for free. On the few occasions I get a grudging concession from him, it elevates my mood a whole bunch: off to the burnpit/dump/scrapyard we go! Feels good.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 06:18 PM (wNh9V)

63 When were they 97 cents?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2024 06:18 PM (63Dwl)

64 The Hobby Thread comes after the Pet Thread because cats and hobbies that require long term work ... do not mix!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 07, 2024 06:18 PM (HlyYF)
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What if collecting cats *is* your hobby?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 07, 2024 06:19 PM (BpYfr)

65 One of my FiL's z"l friends also z"l was a builder and collector of birdhouses. His house in Sonoma has dozens of birdhouses posted everywhere on the property. Along with three separate semi-feral clans of killer kittehs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2024 06:19 PM (RIvkX)

66 Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 07, 2024 06:18 PM (tcQGp)

Ackshully, so many Dolphy stamps were found after the war that the Allies kept them in use, but stamped over his face.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2024 06:20 PM (0eaVi)

67 I quit on getting things into the right thread, please forgive me if you've read this before!

Posted by: Jayhawkone at September 07, 2024 06:22 PM (9rPx3)

68 15 Among my hobbies is 3d printing. For the Texas MoMe this year, I'm 3d printing badges. If anyone attending the TX MoMe this year is interested in a badge, send me an email (link in my sig) to get details.

I have a photo of the one I made for me, I just haven't remembered to send it to any of the usual suspects.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 07, 2024 05:45 PM

"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges."

Actually that is an excellent idea.

Some good "tongue in cheek" Moron joke badges would certainly be a big hit.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 07, 2024 06:22 PM (HlyYF)

69 I quit on getting things into the right thread, please forgive me if you've read this before!
Posted by: Jayhawkone at September 07, 2024 06:22 PM (9rPx3)

Don't worry about it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2024 06:23 PM (0eaVi)

70 What if collecting cats *is* your hobby?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Indeed, Herr Perfessor. Although Werner wonders whether the kitties themselves are the ones doing the collecting. Certainly that is how they would express it: I have chosen you, Human, and be grateful that a feline has done so. Such seems to be in accord with their thinking.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 07, 2024 06:24 PM (tcQGp)

71 When were they 97 cents?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2024

***
The Bachmann snap-together birds and animals kits were .98 in the early Sixties. The Aurora Universal monsters were too, and even the Solo and Illya kits as late as 1966 were still .98.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:24 PM (omVj0)

72 continued: My mother throw out all my Man From U.N.C.L.E. collection, but I had two guns plus the triangular ID badges to gain admittance to the cleaners. I also still have the laser disc and DVD box set (in an attache case) of the complete series.

Posted by: Jayhawkone at September 07, 2024 06:24 PM (9rPx3)

73 Some good "tongue in cheek" Moron joke badges would certainly be a big hit.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 07, 2024

***
A favorite from my Trek convention days:

INVERTEBRATE PUNSTER -- Spinelessly Unable to Resist a Pun

(So Slug Me!)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:26 PM (omVj0)

74 I used to collect musical instruments (that I incidentally couldn't play). Now I just collect age.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 07, 2024 06:26 PM (CHHv1)

75 My hobby is collecting ex-girlfriends. They can be a lot of fun in the sack (i.e. when the mattress ends up off the boxspring onto the floor.) Sure, there can be a lot of emotional fireworks with the breakup, but they are generally short-lived.
Compare that to my buddies collecting ex-wives.

Posted by: Fritzy at September 07, 2024 06:26 PM (LM1wn)

76 Would love to get a 3-D printer but that would be another expensive Hobbie. You should see the gaming stuff getting printed

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2024 06:27 PM (fwDg9)

77 64 The Hobby Thread comes after the Pet Thread because cats and hobbies that require long term work ... do not mix!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 07, 2024 06:18 PM
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What if collecting cats *is* your hobby?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 07, 2024 06:19 PM

I have two daughters with that exact hobby!

Fortunately they are now volunteers at the local shelter and also work hard on social media to find homes to bypass the shelter if possible.

Good thing, too. Our "personal collection" was getting a little extensive.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 07, 2024 06:28 PM (HlyYF)

78 My mother throw out all my Man From U.N.C.L.E. collection, but I had two guns plus the triangular ID badges to gain admittance to the cleaners. I also still have the laser disc and DVD box set (in an attache case) of the complete series.
Posted by: Jayhawkone at September 07, 2024

***
My mother tossed all my Silver Age DC Comics, which would be worth $$ now. But she never dared to touch my U.N.C.L.E. stuff. A lot of it I collected once I was out of the house and working anyway.

Don't have the laserdisc version, but I did buy the attache case with the complete DVD series the moment it came out in '07. As I said at the time: "I don't care if it has to come from Aldebaran via Interstellar Express. It's U.N.C.L.E.!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:29 PM (omVj0)

79 Another classic badge slogan:

"I'm Not a Paranoid Schizophrenic . . . I'm a Writer!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:31 PM (omVj0)

80 Ackshully, so many Dolphy stamps were found after the war that the Allies kept them in use, but stamped over his face.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Werner is not unaware of this, although it should be noted that he was all of three years old at the end of Der Zweite Weltkrieg. Es tut mir leid, but perhaps these are not the droids you are looking for, nicht wahr?

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 07, 2024 06:31 PM (tcQGp)

81 1:6:scale dolls and figures. Figures are a rare purchase these days, just because they're either in the hundreds of dollars or the level of quality that kids take into the bathtub. :/
Most of my hobby money goes into Barbies or the wild variety of (mostly) Barbie- scaled miniatures currently available.

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 07, 2024 06:31 PM (uXcVk)

82 Wow!

Amazing collections!

Since I don't have any disposable income, I collect fun things I find on the beach, sea glass, shells, sand dollars, driftwood, agates, rocks... I found one of those Japanese glass floats on the coast once.

I like it. My apartment has a bit of the beach.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2024 06:34 PM (pEsAa)

83 Where does stamp collecting rank? Used to be a thing in the eighties. Not sure where it's now.

Posted by: hart at September 07, 2024 06:34 PM (H2zSJ)

84 I wonder if a 3D printer could be made to produce six- or eight-inch tall figures of Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin. In the Sixties Marx had plastic figurines, molded all in one color, about four or five inches high -- and they looked *good*. I've seen 'em on eBay and need to purchase one of each. The faces actually resembled Vaughn's and McCallum's.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:34 PM (omVj0)

85 My hobby is collecting ex-girlfriends. They can be a lot of fun in the sack (i.e. when the mattress ends up off the boxspring onto the floor.) Sure, there can be a lot of emotional fireworks with the breakup, but they are generally short-lived.
Compare that to my buddies collecting ex-wives.
Posted by: Fritzy at September 07, 2024

***
I experimented with that little pastime, a long time ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:36 PM (omVj0)

86 "I still haven't settled on an antenna for the new QTH."

For HF, I like wire antennas hung in trees because they're inexpensive, easy for one person to put up, and work well enough. Mother Nature absolutely despises antennas. They are temporary structures at best. So I go with cheap and easy.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 06:36 PM (wNh9V)

87 We use to look just for shark teeth on the beach, some are probably thousands of years old, I have no idea

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2024 06:37 PM (fwDg9)

88 I play all my boardgames. I don’t collect them. I play them. Really!

Posted by: HappyFun at September 07, 2024 06:39 PM (/9E2w)

89 Thanks for the correction Wolfus Aurelius - it's a show I only occasionally watch, although the DVR is set to get it so I was only close on the name.
Tomorrow's episode is the one I've been waiting for, of course.
Posted by: KCSteve at September 07, 2024

***
No, you had the name right; I had it wrong. Funny, Lisa W. still looks great, but I have never watched the show.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:39 PM (omVj0)

90 Nurse... about "sea glass"....

My mom and dad were so taken with it they put up a "special" crystal jar for it at their home.

Collected when they visited us in Monterey, CA.

We were like... WTF? However it is beautiful.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 07, 2024 06:39 PM (Q4IgG)

91 TRex has done it now. Just talked to my silversmith friend and we are going to spend a day drinking scotch and watching him create masterpieces.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 06:39 PM (G3Ji7)

92 Although I accumulate a lot of things like books or art supplies, there are only two areas that could be considered collecting: manual typewriters and tobacco pipes. Neither is based on rarity but on personal preference. For typewriters that means how they feel when typing. Different machines have different feels: snappy or soft response, reliable spacing, and effective indenting. My two favorites are an Olympia SM3/4 (mid-50s) for a portable and a Royal KMM (from 1939) for a standard. Neither is rare. The others I have reflect those qualities to some degree.

My pipes are chosen by the draw, how they feel in the hand and in the mouth and if the shape is interesting. For all their popularity, I'm not a fan of Peterson System pipes. But I've put together a nice selection of Nording freehand pipes. Also, I have several models of the MacQueen churchwarden pipes. Partly for their smoking qualities and partly for the LOTR inspiration. behind them.

Posted by: JTB at September 07, 2024 06:39 PM (zudum)

93 TRex has done it now. Just talked to my silversmith friend and we are going to spend a day drinking scotch and watching him create masterpieces.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 06:39 PM (G3Ji7)

Video it for the Hobby Thread?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2024 06:41 PM (0eaVi)

94 92 IBM Selectric FTW. Loved em.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 06:41 PM (wNh9V)

95 My pipes are chosen by the draw, how they feel in the hand and in the mouth and if the shape is interesting. For all their popularity, I'm not a fan of Peterson System pipes. But I've put together a nice selection of Nording freehand pipes. Also, I have several models of the MacQueen churchwarden pipes. Partly for their smoking qualities and partly for the LOTR inspiration. behind them.
Posted by: JTB at September 07, 2024

***
Now that I have a variety of the pipe shapes I like, I've slowed down on the purchases. I'll look at something nice and then realize, "You have one just like that." If a pipe is an unusual or defunct brand, or goes back to a decade when pipe smoking was a normal thing, then I'll consider it.

One, a Butz-Choquin Dublin, I bought on (I think) eBay. It is so nicely shaped and finished I haven't even smoked it. It seems a shame to bring a match anywhere near such a pretty wood sculpture. Maybe I'll smoke it for Christmas.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:44 PM (omVj0)

96 I've collected books since I was a teenager. It all started when the Old Man gave me a copy of Charles Grant's The War Game. Of course that propelled me to collect miniature soldiers. The books are on display but the wargame figures are in boxes.

While I usually limit myself to spending $20-$30 for a book nowadays, I have spent a couple hundred for a few rarities.

Maybe one of the best scores I ever found was a rather battered 1st edition copy of one of Louis L'Amour's first novels with an almost perfect dust jacket still preserved in an old library cellophane cover. I paid about $5 and the book goes for big money.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 07, 2024 06:44 PM (pJWtt)

97 Ben Had,
That sounds lovely. I've watched glassblowers do their thing. It's pretty cool too.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2024 06:45 PM (XDi3x)

98 Just checked in and guess what? I actually have something to talk about. I collect small boxes. It started when my boyfriend(who later became husband) gave me an antique box shaped like a cottage. Then a Russian lacquer box. I started buying little boxes as souvenirs when we traveled. Some are shaped like animals and only a couple are valuable but they all have sentimental value. I use them to hold jewelry or shells.
I just bought my granddaughters little glass boxes after they admired my collection. Now they have a place for their precious memories.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 07, 2024 06:45 PM (t/2Uw)

99 Used to collect sports cards. I'd really like to sell them or donate to charity for a tax write-off.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 07, 2024 06:45 PM (KAi1n)

100 Did someone say “Permanent Record”?

Posted by: RI Red at September 07, 2024 06:46 PM (Cb4qj)

101 OrangrEnt, we just a talked about a piece he created for a legend in our industry that was given to me by that legend. Shit, it just got dusty in here.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 06:46 PM (G3Ji7)

102 What is the last widely circulated US stamp that has the highest value today? I would think it would be from the eighties at the latest because stamps have been largely irrelevant in my lifetime.

Posted by: hart at September 07, 2024 06:46 PM (H2zSJ)

103 I also collect old IDE hard drives (my own) and i need to find an IDE-compatible dock that's not a chinese piece of shit.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 07, 2024 06:47 PM (KAi1n)

104 Just watch a video where a guy makes Balin's sword out of brass ammo casings. Am pondering to try casting in a smaller scale

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2024 06:47 PM (fwDg9)

105 92 Back in the 70s, before dot-matrix printers, I used teletypes with my home computers. Old model 15s and a 26(? I think.) Shook the whole house when operating. (Army manual said each model 15 came with an 8lb sledge hammer for emergency destruction purposes, but I didn't get the hammer.) I had a Flexowriter too, but never got around to interfacing it. After the Epson MX-80 came out, I got rid of em.

Posted by: gp at September 07, 2024 06:47 PM (wNh9V)

106 OrangrEnt, we just a talked about a piece he created for a legend in our industry that was given to me by that legend. Shit, it just got dusty in here.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 06:46 PM (G3Ji7)

That's nice stuff to keep. Document the provenance and pass it down.

The stuff I have that I collected is disposable, but parent's and grandparent's stuff stays when I go.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 07, 2024 06:48 PM (0eaVi)

107 Northern Illinois beats Notre Dame!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2024 06:48 PM (XDi3x)

108 I collect blued and stainless and cerracoat things.

Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2024 06:49 PM (o2ZRX)

109 nurse, you get it. Watching a master craftsman creating heirloom work is a heart memory.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 06:49 PM (G3Ji7)

110 As a kid, i collected Wacky Packs. Those things (cards and stickers with fake/satirical products) were hilarious.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 07, 2024 06:49 PM (KAi1n)

111 Finished assembly on a Tamiya 1/35 Type 97 Chi-Ha tank. Next step is priming and painting then decals and weathering. Going with the 1st Tank Regiment in the Malay operation of December 1941.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at September 07, 2024 06:50 PM (QyT5w)

112 I wonder if a 3D printer could be made to produce six- or eight-inch tall figures of Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin. In the Sixties Marx had plastic figurines, molded all in one color, about four or five inches high -- and they looked *good*. I've seen 'em on eBay and need to purchase one of each. The faces actually resembled Vaughn's and McCallum's
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 07, 2024 06:34 PM

For detail work like a figurine, you'd want a resin-type printer, and you can buy resin printers that can be used to make eight-inch figurines.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 07, 2024 06:50 PM (iZEhM)

113 Pipes. Huh. I've been wanting to take that up again. Helped me quit cigs. I still have a Calabash that's nicely broken in.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 07, 2024 06:51 PM (GTCVo)

114 Sewing goddesses, what's up with fusible interfaces that won't fuse?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 07, 2024 06:51 PM (Ydd86)

115 Yikes. #5 ranked Notre Dame just lost to unranked Northern Illinois.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 07, 2024 06:51 PM (mH6SG)

116 I still have a Calabash that's nicely broken in.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 07, 2024 06:51 PM (GTCVo)

Wherever it is.

Posted by: J Duranty at September 07, 2024 06:53 PM (0eaVi)

117 Northern Illinois beats Notre Dame!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2024 06:48 PM (XDi3x)

Another triumph for DEI.

Posted by: hart at September 07, 2024 06:53 PM (H2zSJ)

118 Oh and teeth. I collect teeth.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 07, 2024 06:53 PM (GTCVo)

119 Because I try to fix the darn things, I have acquired a collection of mostly mid 70's and early 80's CB radios. All of this comes from buying broken stuff off of fleaBay, craigslist, and shopgoodwill, plus the occasional donated broken radio. Not all of them are "rare", but the vast majority are considered "desirable" by people who are into this stuff.

Then there's the stuff I had to take to get what I actually wanted in a package deal. Absolute crap, straight from the factory.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 07, 2024 06:53 PM (dZVON)

120 Some good "tongue in cheek" Moron joke badges would certainly be a big hit.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 07, 2024 06:22 PM

These are just name badges. Can't tell the morons without name badges. Sometimes you can't even tell the morons With name badges.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 07, 2024 06:53 PM (iZEhM)

121
$0.97?

*looks at cost of Trojans*

Yeah, this meme checks out.

Posted by: Hobbyist at September 07, 2024 06:54 PM (0FoWg)

122 I have a collection of some JD tractors. Nothing like the guy in the above video. Ertl made most of them. There are different levels of collector quality, from play with them if you got them to pretty expensive models. Ertl made a special collector quality tractor or piece of equipment once a year. I have a couple of those. They were a gift. I got interested because as a kid someone gave me a JD B, a 2 bottom plow and a manure spreader. I still have them.

Posted by: Ronster at September 07, 2024 06:54 PM (s1Kcj)

123 I used to collect good yarn. I had this thing for color and feel. I don't knit anymore so now I've got bags and bags and totes full of yarn. Not sure what to do with it. I knew a gal who only collected sock yarn. She had a computer program to keep track of all of it. We used to sit open mouthed as she showed us pictures of her basement storage space.

Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2024 06:54 PM (oaGWv)

124 Wherever it is.

Posted by: J Duranty at September 07, 2024 06:53 PM (0eaVi)

Lol. Ok, that's damn funny.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 07, 2024 06:54 PM (GTCVo)

125 Oh and teeth. I collect teeth.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob

Makes sense. I would guess that they are hard to digest.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 07, 2024 06:55 PM (mH6SG)

126 Yikes. #5 ranked Notre Dame just lost to unranked Northern Illinois.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

How did Michigan fare against Texas?

Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2024 06:55 PM (oaGWv)

127 118 Oh and teeth. I collect teeth.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob

I love you. Hugs to Heidi.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2024 06:55 PM (aH/pT)

128 Frustrated with my phone- a lot of threads like this one, everything is tiny, and when I try to make things bigger it snaps back to tiny.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 07, 2024 06:56 PM (Ydd86)

129 How did Michigan fare against Texas?
Posted by: Tuna

Got pounded.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2024 06:56 PM (aH/pT)

130 My wife found a construction site and talked to the crew there; they said they would be delighted if she would take scrap ends away for firewood. We went there today and got two pickup loads.
This is her way of contributing to the fire wood stack this winter.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2024 06:56 PM (D7oie)

131 How did Michigan fare against Texas?

Beaten like a rented mule. *smile*

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 07, 2024 06:57 PM (mH6SG)

132 How did Michigan fare against Texas?
Posted by: Tuna

Got pounded.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Hee, hee, hee

Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2024 06:57 PM (oaGWv)

133 This is her way of contributing to the fire wood stack this winter.

She's a keeper.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 07, 2024 06:57 PM (dZVON)

134 I love you. Hugs to Heidi.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2024 06:55 PM (aH/pT)

Much love back atcha babe. Same from Heidi. Xoxoox

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 07, 2024 06:57 PM (GTCVo)

135 Hi Tuna!
I collect chuckles. Thank you for another one.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2024 06:58 PM (aH/pT)

136 Pipes. Huh. I've been wanting to take that up again. Helped me quit cigs. I still have a Calabash that's nicely broken in.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 07, 2024 06:51 PM (GTCVo)

In my single days, I used to smoke pipes. I mainly favored Dunhills and Petersons. I was partial to Balkan Sobranie tobacco.

I stopped smoking years ago, and sold most of them to get the cash for a Browning Hi-Power. I still own my Calabash and two Peterson "Sherlock Holmes" collection pipes. (I'm a big Sherlockian nerd.)

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 07, 2024 06:58 PM (pJWtt)

137 Notre Dames football coach is the quintessential DEI appointee.

Posted by: hart at September 07, 2024 06:58 PM (H2zSJ)

138 >>Hee, hee, hee

It was pretty enjoyable.

Posted by: Aviator at September 07, 2024 06:59 PM (HQ9Sl)

139 Of course this OSU fan needs to curb her ridicule as we've got Oregon on the schedule soon.

Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2024 06:59 PM (oaGWv)

140 I used to collect good yarn. I had this thing for color and feel. I don't knit anymore so now I've got bags and bags and totes full of yarn. Not sure what to do with it. I knew a gal who only collected sock yarn. She had a computer program to keep track of all of it. We used to sit open mouthed as she showed us pictures of her basement storage space.
Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2024 06:54 PM (oaGWv)

My sister quilts. She gave us a quilt for a wedding gift (I don't have it out because the cats will puke on it). Last weekend I visited her and she got the completed quilts off of the guest bed so I could sleep there, and she had more than 50 stacked on a counter.
She has the whole upstairs of her place set up for quilting and related sewing crafts. One day I may do something similar.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2024 07:00 PM (D7oie)

141 For typewriters that means how they feel when typing. Different machines have different feels: snappy or soft response, reliable spacing, and effective indenting. My two favorites are an Olympia SM3/4 (mid-50s) for a portable and a Royal KMM (from 1939) for a standard. Neither is rare. The others I have reflect those qualities to some degree.
Posted by JTB

This takes Werner back. The joy of electric typewriters that allowed one to type over mistakes! One could dispense with the White-Out and the abomination of those eraser thinga-ma-jigs that never entirely worked, with the obscene brush that cleared away little, and mocked your efforts as does the Void, which is always quick to jump on the mocking bandwagon.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 07, 2024 07:00 PM (tcQGp)

142 Hi Tuna!
I collect chuckles. Thank you for another one.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Too bad Bulg not here. We could have a good time.

Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2024 07:01 PM (oaGWv)

143 Wine cellars? Yeah...mine doesn't last that long.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2024 07:01 PM (Wnv9h)

144 My sister quilts. She gave us a quilt for a wedding gift (I don't have it out because the cats will puke on it). Last weekend I visited her and she got the completed quilts off of the guest bed so I could sleep there, and she had more than 50 stacked on a counter.
She has the whole upstairs of her place set up for quilting and related sewing crafts. One day I may do something similar.

If she's already got the long arm machine just smile and back away slowly.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 07, 2024 07:01 PM (dZVON)

145 She's a keeper.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 07, 2024 06:57 PM (dZVON)

I admit she also does things like show up with three gallons of bar oil saying it was on sale, and sees no real problem with me buying 25 lb bags of rice.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2024 07:03 PM (D7oie)

146 RMBS, you too, huh

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:03 PM (G3Ji7)

147 This takes Werner back. The joy of electric typewriters that allowed one to type over mistakes! One could dispense with the White-Out and the abomination of those eraser thinga-ma-jigs that never entirely worked, with the obscene brush that cleared away little, and mocked your efforts as does the Void, which is always quick to jump on the mocking bandwagon.
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 07, 2024 07:00 PM (tcQGp)

I understand that the youngsters are fascinated by manual typewriters and phonograph turntables. I remember the revelation of "going digital" but analog does have its appeal.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 07, 2024 07:04 PM (pJWtt)

148 RMBS, you too, huh
Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:03 PM

With the exception of two bottles of vintage port in my cellar, yeah. Guilty.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2024 07:05 PM (Wnv9h)

149 I collect ex-fiancees.

Only have the one, but I got the premium version.

IMO, MUCH cheaper than collecting ex-girlfriends or ex-wives!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 07, 2024 07:05 PM (HlyYF)

150 RMBS. I have been hoarding a bottle of chocolate port. I can't find a replacement.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:06 PM (G3Ji7)

151 If she's already got the long arm machine just smile and back away slowly.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 07, 2024 07:01 PM (dZVON)

She also has some enormous needlepoint and beading project. I am not sure if she has a longarm, or if she just has a quilting frame.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2024 07:07 PM (D7oie)

152 RMBS. I have been hoarding a bottle of chocolate port. I can't find a replacement.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:06 PM

I've had a couple of nice chocolate reds. Chocolate port must be lovely.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2024 07:09 PM (Wnv9h)

153 I suppose collecting pressure canners might be collecting but I really only have six, and they are mostly Prestos.
seriously though, it is fascinating to see how the same end can be done with different equipment.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2024 07:09 PM (D7oie)

154 Tuna,
I was a Beaver gymnast back in the 80s.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2024 07:10 PM (na73u)

155 With the exception of two bottles of vintage port in my cellar, yeah. Guilty.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2024 07:05 PM (Wnv9h)

I have a glass gallon jug of port in the pantry. It has been there for 12 years, and I am waiting on it in the hope that it might get better. I think I paid six bucks for it/

It might get crusty!

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2024 07:11 PM (D7oie)

156 Tuna,
I was a Beaver gymnast back in the 80s.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2024 07:10 PM

*does not make Naked Gun joke*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2024 07:11 PM (Wnv9h)

157 RMBS, the port isn't even in this universe for comparison.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:11 PM (G3Ji7)

158 RMBS, the port isn't even in this universe for comparison.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:11 PM

Mmmm....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2024 07:12 PM (Wnv9h)

159 I have a few bottles of old wine left from my collection days, 1 is a bottle.of port late 90s probably

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2024 07:13 PM (fwDg9)

160 Yikes. #5 ranked Notre Dame just lost to unranked Northern Illinois.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
+++
I always love it when Notre Dame loses. I don't care who they're playing.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 07, 2024 07:13 PM (Lo97M)

161 Oldest unopened bottle of booze I have? 1997 Jack Daniels single barrel. Sure some of you fags have older wine.

Posted by: hart at September 07, 2024 07:13 PM (H2zSJ)

162 IMO, MUCH cheaper than collecting ex-girlfriends or ex-wives!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 07, 2024 07:05 PM (HlyYF)

Nah... Ex Girlfriends are OK...

Ex Wives are the gift that keeps on giving, like... Herpes.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 07, 2024 07:14 PM (xaFKb)

163 I have been hoarding a bottle of chocolate port. I can't find a replacement.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:06 PM (G3Ji7)
====
I've been enjoying Bailey's Irish Cream Belgian Chocolate flavor.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2024 07:14 PM (RIvkX)

164 I always love it when Notre Dame loses. I don't care who they're playing.
Posted by: Florida Peasant

So did my husband.

Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2024 07:15 PM (oaGWv)

165 I used to collect shot glasses. Not a very big collection but every one has a memory attached to it. The Santa Fe railroad is my favorite.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 07, 2024 07:15 PM (+H2BX)

166 RMBS!
Greetings sir!

And yeah, I'm stuffed.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2024 07:15 PM (na73u)

167 My favorite souvenir is a Tibetan prayer book that I bought at a monastery in the Himalayas. It has a carved wooden cover and the pages have Sanskrit text with images of Hindu or Buddhist deities.

I had it mounted and framed by a talented framer and now it hangs on the wall in my living room.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 07, 2024 07:15 PM (muwun)

168 When I was doing Heating and Air installs in new construction I got to know the scrapper guy. I asked him what he was doing with the wood and he was taking it to the dump. So my cousin and I started throwing all the good stuff into the next garage down the way and in about 6 months we had enough to frame and side a whole house.
My shed is built with that scrap and my cousin did a sun room from it. Contractor caught us and was impressed with what we had done but from then on he had his guys do it instead. He framed and sided a whole house on the jobsite with what he had. Saved about $30,000 on that one and wrote us both a nice little Christmas bonus check.
Had no idea how much was left over from the kit he bought for each house.

Posted by: Reforger at September 07, 2024 07:16 PM (xcIvR)

169 Greetings, nurse!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2024 07:16 PM (Wnv9h)

170 161 Oldest unopened bottle of booze I have? 1997 Jack Daniels single barrel. Sure some of you fags have older wine.
Posted by: hart at September 07, 2024 07:13 PM (H2zSJ)

LOL, ONLY bottle of unopened booze I have in the house?

Cabernet Sauvignon called Freak Show, that I will be opening as soon as the last couple of glasses from last nights bottle are consumedd.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 07, 2024 07:16 PM (xaFKb)

171 SanFranpsycho, lovely Horde member creeper makes a Baileys that is to die for. Yes, I snatch a bottle off of the open bar.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:17 PM (G3Ji7)

172 Tuna,
I was a Beaver gymnast back in the 80s.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2024 07:10 PM (na73u)
====

*gulps*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2024 07:18 PM (RIvkX)

173 141 ... Werner,

Electric typewriters never appealed to me. The buzzing of most models and harsh hammering of the Selectrics was distracting. I know they offered production advantages but that wasn't a factor for me. Fortunately, my college papers (this was long before PCs or even word processors) could be handwritten and if typed perfection was not required, so correction fluid or type overs were accepted. Even my early days in the business world meant handwritten documents given to the ladies in the typing pool. Legible writing and proofing was more important than typing speed.

Posted by: JTB at September 07, 2024 07:19 PM (zudum)

174 Tuna,
I was a Beaver gymnast back in the 80s.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 07, 2024 07:10 PM

Oct 12th. Be there.

Posted by: Tuna at September 07, 2024 07:19 PM (oaGWv)

175 Posted by: Reforger at September 07, 2024 07:16 PM (xcIvR)

House I own, Jig built out of old dried wood, in 1958... trucked to the site... then finished up.

They don't do that anymore, but this house is fucking solid, and straight.

Had to replace part of an Eve a couple years back, and had to cut down a much larger piece of wood to make it fit (as modern lumber just aint even close to the size it says it is).

New piece is no where near the strength of that old wood.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 07, 2024 07:20 PM (xaFKb)

176 Romero 13, Freak Show is wonderful. Weasel brought me some as a gag but it was no joke.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:20 PM (G3Ji7)

177 I don't collect. I spent too much of my life in small spaces where there wasn't the room. I have a couple of albums of old photos. My husband was in to collecting which is why I have as many treadle machines as I do. I got rid of some yarn and fleece when I moved. Same thing with my spindles. I've started giving some away to get down to what I use.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 07, 2024 07:20 PM (MpVUb)

178 Nice. Makes a good nitecap.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 07, 2024 07:21 PM (RIvkX)

179 176 Romero 13, Freak Show is wonderful. Weasel brought me some as a gag but it was no joke.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:20 PM (G3Ji7)

Been to the winery a couple of times .... Live music and wine tasting... in the wine capital of clownifornia!!!

Yes.... LODI.... LOL

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 07, 2024 07:21 PM (xaFKb)

180 Romero 13, Freak Show is wonderful. Weasel brought me some as a gag but it was no joke.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:20 PM

I got a priest friend of mine a bottle of 7 Deadly Zins. He and his wife loved it. 😄

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2024 07:22 PM (Wnv9h)

181 Things I collect/buy too many of: piggy banks, soaps, candles.

Things I collect when I travel: Christmas ornaments, ski pins.

When I was a kid, I collected gum wrappers and had a 300-foot long gum wrapper chain. Yes, I was weird.

Posted by: Moonbeam at September 07, 2024 07:22 PM (rbKZ6)

182 When I was a kid, I collected gum wrappers and had a 300-foot long gum wrapper chain. Yes, I was weird.
Posted by: Moonbeam at September 07, 2024 07:22 PM (rbKZ6)

Had an Ex Lady Friend who collected shot glasses...

and then never used em... /shakes head

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 07, 2024 07:23 PM (xaFKb)

183 "Tuna, I was a Beaver gymnast"

Maybe the most poon fantasy evah.

Posted by: hart at September 07, 2024 07:24 PM (H2zSJ)

184 When I was a kid, I collected gum wrappers and had a 300-foot long gum wrapper chain. Yes, I was weird.
Posted by: Moonbeam at September 07, 2024 07:22 PM (rbKZ6)

Damn... I remember my sisters doing the gum wrapper chain thing...

MOM HATED IT!

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 07, 2024 07:24 PM (xaFKb)

185 I collect movies on DVD and Blu-ray. I am pretty sure that TJM's collection dwarfs mine, but that and books are my thing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 07, 2024 07:25 PM (Ad8y9)

186 When I was a kid, I collected gum wrappers and had a 300-foot long gum wrapper chain. Yes, I was weird.

Meh, some people are into chains.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 07, 2024 07:25 PM (dZVON)

187 "Tuna, I was a Beaver gymnast"

Maybe the most poon fantasy evah.
Posted by: hart at September 07, 2024 07:24 PM

Possibly the most AoSHQ comment you'll read all day.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2024 07:26 PM (Wnv9h)

188 Have a friend that has the largest Martini shaker collection in the world.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:26 PM (G3Ji7)

189 I think I have a Hermitage 1989

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2024 07:26 PM (fwDg9)

190 I have about 400 vinyl records from back when music was still all about the music. But I didn't buy them to look at. I bought them to listen to. So, even though they still play just fine, you're gonna hear a few scratches now and then.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 07, 2024 07:27 PM (Lo97M)

191 Traveling home but wanted to chime in: i recently started collecting birdhouses mostly from craft fairs. But bought two in Maine this week: one a buiy and another and acorn

Posted by: Iris at September 07, 2024 07:28 PM (b45op)

192 Have a friend that has the largest Martini shaker collection in the world.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:26 PM

Don't tell CBD.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2024 07:29 PM (Wnv9h)

193 Also would love if the Horde had any advice about selling my dad’s coin collection

Posted by: Iris at September 07, 2024 07:30 PM (b45op)

194 A mans most expensive hobby is riding bareback.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 07, 2024 07:30 PM (gbOdA)

195 Dad collected coffee cups, he lined the tops of the cabinets with them. must have been fifty linear feet of coffee cups.
Some I donated, some I tossed because they were chipped, some I sold in a garage sale, some I boxed up and took down to the local restaurant that does a buffet because they like to use odd mugs.
I figure in a year or so I will take another box of them down because mugs break all the time.
who knows I might start going down on saturdays again and sneak one or two in each time.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2024 07:30 PM (D7oie)

196 187 "Tuna, I was a Beaver gymnast"

Maybe the most poon fantasy evah.
Posted by: hart at September 07, 2024 07:24 PM

Possibly the most AoSHQ comment you'll read all day.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 07, 2024 07:26 PM (Wnv9h)

Defiantly in the running for 'comment of the week'.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 07, 2024 07:30 PM (xaFKb)

197 I think technically I collect books. I've got a bunch of surveying manual and how to build infrastructure manuals and gardening books and an old encyclopedia set and a whole bunch of others.

I tell people (if they ask) that I collect fans - folding fans or those chinese membrane fans, doesn't really matter. It makes an easy souvenir for them to pick up if they travel somewhere and want to get me something.

My dad collected packs of cards for a similar reason.

I don't display them, because I have no free walls at the moment.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 07, 2024 07:30 PM (kvrZb)

198 A mans most expensive hobby is riding bareback.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 07, 2024 07:30 PM (gbOdA)

collecting stents is more expensive.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2024 07:31 PM (D7oie)

199 RMBS. Yeah, I thought about that. I have to say the collection is amazing but I am a sterling silver whore.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:31 PM (G3Ji7)

200 Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2024 07:30 PM (D7oie)

I do have Coffee cups from every Navy command I was stationed at...

and every company I worked for except 1 (they didn't have coffee cups... but I still have a couple work shirts from there).

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 07, 2024 07:31 PM (xaFKb)

201 Watching the OSU game, I wonder what threat the NCAA used to prevent kneeled at their games.

Posted by: Megthered at September 07, 2024 07:32 PM (XR9vR)

202 I used to have about 6 watches. But it seems friends and family bought them haha for dimes on the dollar.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 07, 2024 07:32 PM (gbOdA)

203 I have 2 corneas that cost about 67,000.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 07, 2024 07:33 PM (gbOdA)

204 Also would love if the Horde had any advice about selling my dad’s coin collection
Posted by: Iris at September 07, 2024 07:30 PM (b45op)

Most dealers survive on word of mouth, the ones that try to cheat you have a reputation.

best take them in for an appraisal. Silver is sort of iffy right now, a lot of it is going for industrial use in electronics, and I am told that coin silver is being bought up now to be used in industry. Gold is high but it will go higher
the collectables are kind of an odd duck, but a good coin store will be able to give you an idea of value.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2024 07:34 PM (D7oie)

205 rhennigan. I think you call that an investment.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:35 PM (G3Ji7)

206 Thank you Kindlot

Posted by: Iris at September 07, 2024 07:35 PM (KLcWa)

207 205 rhennigan. I think you call that an investment.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2024 07:35 PM (G3Ji7)

watches or corneas

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 07, 2024 07:36 PM (gbOdA)

208 The meme is correct. We got started young.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at September 07, 2024 07:36 PM (W+kMI)

209 I have 2 corneas that cost about 67,000.

As long as they're yours and you're using them I'm not sure it counts as a "collection".

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 07, 2024 07:36 PM (dZVON)

210 I guess I collect books as well, actually took 1 back to used book store yesterday as thought someone else might read it.

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2024 07:37 PM (fwDg9)

211 210 I guess I collect books as well, actually took 1 back to used book store yesterday as thought someone else might read it.
Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2024 07:37 PM (fwDg9)

And came to the wrong conclusion.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 07, 2024 07:38 PM (gbOdA)

212 Iris, once you learn the lingo, you can research a lot of it yourself and do a check, but the true value of anything is what you can get for it. who knows, it might turn into a hobby!

dad also had gobs of foreign coins from vacations on the hope that they would be something some day (and I suppose they will be) but I am tempted to keep some in my car's ash tray to throw them out at crosswalks near schools.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 07, 2024 07:39 PM (D7oie)

213 Whatever 'collections' I have are pretty modest. A few first editions by authors that I like might be regarded as such.

I have a few oddments that I have picked up over the years because I found them interesting, none valuable. 'Rare' does not automatically mean 'valuable'.

I had a very good friend who passed away recently. He was an engineer's engineer, and spent most of his career with RCA, though the latter part with the Naval Research Laboratory.

He had a life-long interest in the technical side of sound recording/reproduction, and a thorough understanding of things, to the molecular level. I could go on and on about his professional achievements, but will cut to the chase.

Over the years he acquired a large body of acoustic reproduction equipment, Edison, Victor et al.

This was a substantial body of stuff, and not piece of it which wasn't in better operating condition than when it was new.

A minor part of the collection was, wait for it... 4000 Edison cylinders. When all of this was auctioned off after his death, his collection single-handedly saturated the market for Edison cylinders. What had been onesey-twosey $10 items, sank to $2.00-$3.00

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 07, 2024 07:40 PM (XeU6L)

214 I'm very late, but in response to sharon....

I have a small collection of Russian lacquer boxes from my 2 trips there. Remind me to show them to you when you come to SC.

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 07, 2024 07:40 PM (iZbyp)

215 Thx T.Rex. I collected sports cards as a kid and I still have them . Interesting story. A friend and I with our mothers went to NYC and went to a card show in either 76 or 77. I picked up a series of cards that I didn't know existed from a guy last name of Fritsch. A few years ago I looked them up and holy moly. What I bought was the 1972 Topps NFL third series. They were sold only around Chicago and Milwaukee in the fall of 72 . By then most people had stopped buying football cards because they had gotten there sets. Topps took back the packs from stores and burned them. However they had a few pallets of packs left and sold them to Frisch. It was a test series because vfor twelve years Topps had put out two series and the next year was going to 528 cards. That third series is now worth $10-20000. Pretty cool

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 07, 2024 07:40 PM (RshWO)

216 I am supposed to get a portion of my aunt & uncle's coins. It's not valued at a lot. I did finally get the paintings. These were oils done in post war Germany. They aren't great works of art but I'm happy to have them

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 07, 2024 07:41 PM (MpVUb)

217 And I gotta watch that Matchbox car vid. As a kid when I had spending $ that's what I'd buy. The coolest one I ever had was an orange Lamborghini

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 07, 2024 07:41 PM (iZbyp)

218 1950's construction techniques are a world away from the crap they throw up now.
There is so much pride in a job well done that it shines through.
I collect old trade manuals and books on many forgotten subjects.
I have wood shop books that walk a student through every step from leveling and squareing to roofing with shake shingles. Lath and plaster to grooving hard wood flooring by hand.
My grandfather on my mom's side was a union brick layer and he spent 60 years building his house. Never actually finished it before he passed and what grandma had done to sell it is so painfully obvious it is sickening.

Posted by: Reforger at September 07, 2024 07:42 PM (xcIvR)

219 actually took 1 back to used book store yesterday as thought someone else might read it.
Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2024 07:37 PM (fwDg9)

You never know what a book will do with someone. Lincoln and Lenin were voracious readers.

Posted by: hart at September 07, 2024 07:43 PM (H2zSJ)

220 I see a lot of card collections at the local auction. I haven't been so I don't know how well they sell. There's a beautiful wood cookstove on the auction tomorrow. No way to use one now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 07, 2024 07:44 PM (MpVUb)

221 So cool SiD. Take a picture so I can see in Texas. I have a book about them I'll bring.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 07, 2024 07:45 PM (t/2Uw)

222 WE HAVE A MOVIE MARQUETTE

Posted by: Skip at September 07, 2024 07:46 PM (fwDg9)

223 Not a collection but I wish it was. When I was a kid back in the 60's, I used to spend what little money I had on baseball cards and Superman and Batman comic books. Man! If I had only kept those things and taken care of them, I might be rich now.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 07, 2024 07:46 PM (Lo97M)

224 210 I guess I collect books as well, actually took 1 back to used book store yesterday as thought someone else might read it.
-----------
I really need to do that, take some books I no longer value as much, and take them in to be resold. But I guard my book-hoard with negligent fierceness.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at September 07, 2024 07:49 PM (W+kMI)

225 I collect LP records. When people find that out they have donations. Cleaning out Mom's place after she goes into assisted living. That sort of thing. I clean them up, give them new inner and outer sleeves as needed and listen to them. Most aren't in that good condition , but I have a lot obscure stuff.

We also collect shot glasses from the places we travel to.

Posted by: Pod Hamp at September 07, 2024 07:52 PM (fymoN)

226
I collect LP records. I clean them up, give them new inner and outer sleeves as needed and listen to them. Most aren't in that good condition

Most people didn't know how to properly care for LPs.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 07, 2024 07:56 PM (63Dwl)

227 willowed:

Books. Old vacuum tubes. Electronic parts and test equipment.
Hand tools. Various chotchkies.

my oddest collection, (but a favorite) is machine plates; you know, the little brass or aluminum plate that says model, s/n, watts, volts, amps, cycles, rpm ... the crucial information, whatever it might be!

I started collecting them back in the 70s and continue today, always from equipment in dumpsters or scrapyards, never from something that might still be made to work someday.

5 cigar boxes full; plus ones that are too big ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at September 07, 2024 07:58 PM (UWgy2)

228 lol, shot glasses! I have dozens of them!
admittedly, mostly, (but not all) from thrift stores

(see "Various chotchkies", above ...)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at September 07, 2024 08:05 PM (UWgy2)

229 I want to know if the last Flash Cadillac & The Continentals concert will be recorded and filmed. Mrs. E had a ticket on hold when she realized she has a knee replacement 4 days before. Can you help me out, Emmie?

Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2024 08:13 PM (LHPAg)

230 167 My favorite souvenir is a Tibetan prayer book that I bought at a monastery in the Himalayas. It has a carved wooden cover and the pages have Sanskrit text with images of Hindu or Buddhist deities.

I had it mounted and framed by a talented framer and now it hangs on the wall in my living room.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 07, 2024 07:15 PM (muwun)
You bought it? I would have thought it would be free.

Posted by: Eromero at September 07, 2024 08:27 PM (LHPAg)

231 eh, even Buddhists gotta eat.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at September 07, 2024 08:43 PM (UWgy2)

232 License plates from foreign countries I have set foot in.

Posted by: boynsea at September 07, 2024 08:58 PM (cx155)

233 I don't really think I collect anything. Perhaps because I have so many different interests that I don't really focus on one thing.

Maybe I collect hobbies?

Posted by: Stv at September 07, 2024 09:02 PM (P5JRd)

234 I'm part hoarder, part collector. Most anything I have, though, I will sell, or give away when it suits my fancy. Don't really have any curated, catalog'ed collections. Have a lot of old radios, mostly vacuum tube, but a few early transistor radios, too. Lots of cars and trucks. Lawn mowers, chain saws. Parts to fix such things.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 07, 2024 09:59 PM (BfydD)

235 Magic the Gathering collector since the 90s, damn sure shouldn't have sold off stuff older stuff earlier lol.

Posted by: specialkayel at September 07, 2024 10:10 PM (fNqfQ)

236 I have 42 electric coffee pots, manufactured between 1926 and WWII. The earliest electric coffee percolator patent was about 1908, but alas I have not been able to find one that old. Anybody got one they're not using? Can I have it?

I think the tuba collection is cool, but they do take up space.

Posted by: Persnickety at September 07, 2024 10:51 PM (6fdSm)

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