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  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭✭

    W.C.Fields
    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭✭

    W.C.Fields
    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,262 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Someone sent me a PM about this. They had some history about it. I can't find the PM. Please contact me again.

    Larry

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,801 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Apparently I like to collect ammo. My wife and I just tried to inventory it and stopped counting when we were about 1/2 way through.....100,000 rounds. I have ammo for guns I've never owned or even seen. Some goes back 80 to 100 years. I'm an FFL and did a lot of gun deals in the past and the ammo just came along for the ride. Never bought a round that I recall. I should probably sell it now that it's in demand, but likely won't.

    bob :)

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @AUandAG said:
    Apparently I like to collect ammo. My wife and I just tried to inventory it and stopped counting when we were about 1/2 way through.....100,000 rounds. I have ammo for guns I've never owned or even seen. Some goes back 80 to 100 years. I'm an FFL and did a lot of gun deals in the past and the ammo just came along for the ride. Never bought a round that I recall. I should probably sell it now that it's in demand, but likely won't.

    bob :)

    I sure hope you don't have a fire. :o

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,801 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:

    @AUandAG said:
    Apparently I like to collect ammo. My wife and I just tried to inventory it and stopped counting when we were about 1/2 way through.....100,000 rounds. I have ammo for guns I've never owned or even seen. Some goes back 80 to 100 years. I'm an FFL and did a lot of gun deals in the past and the ammo just came along for the ride. Never bought a round that I recall. I should probably sell it now that it's in demand, but likely won't.

    bob :)

    I sure hope you don't have a fire. :o

    Yeah, doesn't bother me much as almost all in Ammo cans which would allow us to get out.....But, would have to warn firefighters, 'eh?
    bob :)

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • mlittlemlittle Posts: 143 ✭✭✭

    Old toys, including toy cap guns, toy trains; boy scout items; U.S. military items; books; antiques.

  • vulcanizevulcanize Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Stamps, HO scale model railroad and smaller CC motorbikes. Guess I never grew up. :wink:

  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My stable has room for 5 more like it. What will be next?
    file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/87/07/FE5621C6-8B18-40B6-9A92-8F6D3A086ED6/IMG_1617.jpeg

  • jessewvujessewvu Posts: 5,065 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I collect wood in the spring and burn it the following winter

    I collect fishing lures to catch big fish on the Chesapeake

    I collect Maryland blue crabs on my 1,200’ trot line to have many crab feasts during the summer

    I collect ammunition; 9mm, .45APC, .223, .22 LR, and deer slugs

    I used to collect trains and have all sorts from N to O gauge.

  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,923 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 14, 2022 2:52PM

    Wristwatches- Mainly Bulova accutrons
    Ephemera- Ocean Liner (especially Lusitania/Mauretania), Airship (especially Hindenburg, Graf Zeppelin, Los Angeles, Macon, Akron), Kennedy assassination, famous numismatists, coin designers, classic video game flyers and autographs, historical Texas, Charles Lindbergh.
    Video Games- I now have Centipede, Defender, and Donkey Kong original arcade machines, Atari 2600

    You Suck! Awarded 6/2008- 1901-O Micro O Morgan, 8/2008- 1878 VAM-123 Morgan, 9/2022 1888-O VAM-1B3 H8 Morgan | Senior Regional Representative- ANACS Coin Grading. Posted opinions on coins are my own, and are not an official ANACS opinion.
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,399 ✭✭✭✭✭

    In the event Vintage Golfs was not enough... how about vintage building ink wells- this one is from 1924 made by Whitehead & Hoag of the Travelers Tower in Hartford

    Not my image but it is exactly like the own I own... I think these are much tougher to find than you might think

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • Che_GrapesChe_Grapes Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What a great thread!
    I also have other collections including many mentioned here - I have a large collection of glass bottles - all kinds and colors, mostly medicinal bottled from the 30s 40s and 50s - some may be earlier.
    One collection no one mentioned that I inherited from my father - playboy magazines! I have nearly all of them and once tried to sell them and realized they actually have little or no value.... but those from the past are fun to look at.... showed my young adult son once and his comment “they didn’t shave back then???”

    Sad but true story ...!!

  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I must admit…after seeing this thread, I’m intrigued with the Newcomb pottery that CommemDude and Weiss posted. The Rockwood that BustDMs posted was nice as well.

  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss absolutely stunning. Safe to assume that piece was too labor intensive. Beautiful detail.
    I may have to read up on these. I’m lucky to have a dealer of these pieces of art just an hour away.

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,594 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dust.

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,459 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1northcoin said:
    I have a number of varied collected items that may or may not rise to the status of “Collections.” These range from the Movie Memorabilia displayed at my office to collected Dinosaur Eggs and most recently Russian Nesting dolls depicting art scenes.

    Guess it mirrors my varied coin collecting interests as I have dabbled in Early Dollars and $3 gold pieces with Registry Sets for both but have a large variety of others as interests have driven from semi proof Morgan’s to Large Cents, and even Ancients, Territorials, and $20 gold pieces to include a subset of $20 Carson City minted ones along with an 1861 Paquet Reverse Double Eagle and the 1850 specimen that has been traced back through auction records to having originally been in the collection of its designer and engraver, James B. Longacre.

    @1northcoin said:

    @1northcoin said:
    I have a number of varied collected items that may or may not rise to the status of “Collections.” These range from the Movie Memorabilia displayed at my office to collected Dinosaur Eggs and most recently Russian Nesting dolls depicting art scenes.

    Guess it mirrors my varied coin collecting interests as I have dabbled in Old Dollars and $3 gold pieces with Registry Sets for both but have a large variety of others as interests have driven from semi proof Morgan’s to Large Cents, and even Ancients, Territorials, and $20 gold pieces and beyond.

    One of the green vase props pictured behind the actress Yunjin Kim in her role as Sun in the TV Series LOST is an example of a piece of Media Memorabilia in my limited collection.

    And hanging on the wall in my office are props from the movie "Shanghai Knights" which include the swords and shield that hung on the wall of the London Tower that actors Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan pulled to use for the sword fight in the Tower. The visible crossbow was from a scene earlier in the movie when the villain used it in China to obtain the Imperial Seal that became the object of pursuit in the film.

    And here pictured is the afore mentioned Imperial Seal now in my "Collection."

    A piece of Memorabilia I wish had been able to retain was the three-cornered hat I wore in my role as a background actor on Hawaii Five-0. It had reportedly been a prop in the Mel Gibson movie, "The Patriot" and at the last moment as we were about to begin filming Costuming got a message that The Studio who had loaned it was having second thoughts about allowing it and the other items from being used on the TV show. Fortunately an agreement was reached.

    @1northcoin said:

    @1northcoin said:
    I have a number of varied collected items that may or may not rise to the status of “Collections.” These range from the Movie Memorabilia displayed at my office to collected Dinosaur Eggs and most recently Russian Nesting dolls depicting art scenes.

    Guess it mirrors my varied coin collecting interests as I have dabbled in Old Dollars and $3 gold pieces with Registry Sets for both but have a large variety of others as interests have driven from semi proof Morgan’s to Large Cents, and even Ancients, Territorials, and $20 gold pieces and beyond.

    One of the green vase props pictured behind the actress Yunjin Kim in her role as Sun in the TV Series LOST is an example of a piece of Media Memorabilia in my limited collection.

    And hanging on the wall in my office are props from the movie "Shanghai Knights" which include the swords and shield that hung on the wall of the London Tower that actors Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan pulled to use for the sword fight in the Tower. The visible crossbow was from a scene earlier in the movie when the villain used it in China to obtain the Imperial Seal that became the object of pursuit in the film.

    And here pictured is the afore mentioned Imperial Seal now in my "Collection."

    A piece of Memorabilia I wish had been able to retain was the three-cornered hat I wore in my role as a background actor on Hawaii Five-0. It had reportedly been a prop in the Mel Gibson movie, "The Patriot" and at the last moment as we were about to begin filming Costuming got a message that The Studio who had loaned it was having second thoughts about allowing it and the other items from being used on the TV show. Fortunately an agreement was reached.

    @1northcoin said:

    @1northcoin said:

    @1northcoin said:

    @1northcoin said:
    I have a number of varied collected items that may or may not rise to the status of “Collections.” These range from the Movie Memorabilia displayed at my office to collected Dinosaur Eggs and most recently Russian Nesting dolls depicting art scenes.

    Guess it mirrors my varied coin collecting interests as I have dabbled in Old Dollars and $3 gold pieces with Registry Sets for both but have a large variety of others as interests have driven from semi proof Morgan’s to Large Cents, and even Ancients, Territorials, and $20 gold pieces and beyond.

    Thanks to the many who have posted pictures of various of your collectables. It has made for a varied (pun intended) interesting thread.

    Here is a photo of one of the pieces of Movie Memorabilia in my collection. It is a prop from the movie "Shanghai Knights" and is the Imperial Seal that is the subject of the search that brought the characters payed by Owen Wilson, Jackie Chan and Fann Wong to England to secure its return to the Emperor in China.

    I should note that pictured above the display of the Imperial Seal are some screen shots of my character from my appearance in an episode of Hawaii Five-0. The pictured three-cornered hat I am wearing is an item of movie memorabilia that I wish I could have retained. Reportedly it had been a prop in the Mel Gibson movie, "The Patriot" and was on loan from the movie studio to the costuming department for Hawaii Five-0. This came to light when at the last minute the Studio began having second thoughts about allowing their properties to be used on the Hawaii Five-0 TV set. I almost had to turn it in before the filming began but fortunately an agreement was reached in time.

    Here are some additional props from my movie memorabilia collection. The swords crossed on the shield hung on the wall of London Tower in the movie "Shanghai Knights" and were seen in the movie being taken down for use by Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan's characters for the swordfight in the Tower of London before they reached Big Ben.



    I can add that the pictured cross bow seen hanging on my office wall was a prop from earlier in the “Shanghai Knights” movie.

    It was used by one of the villains to assasinate the Emperor’s Keeper of the Imperial Seal who was the father of the characters played by Jackie Chan and Fann Wong.

    I thought I had recalled seeing this thread in the past.

    Took some scrolling but finally located my prior posts. It was fun to see all the other posts with amazing collectibles that I had been missed before.

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,801 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DNADave said:

    @AUandAG said:
    I'm an FFL, Curios and Relics, and thus have a few toys laying around. Here's one:
    1947 is the birthdate, but tricked out for competition.

    Love the 1911

    I see and Lugers, too!
    love 'em for sure!
    bob :)

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That ticker tape machine in the center of the table brings back memories. We had them at the firehouse years ago.

  • 2ltdjorn2ltdjorn Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭

    ETFs

    Rolex and Tudors

    WTB... errors, New Orleans gold, and circulated 20th key date coins!
  • TwobitcollectorTwobitcollector Posts: 3,487 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bigtime36 said:
    @Twobitcollector nice stuff... here's a small piece of my uncles collection








    I just received the Reading sign yesterday. The N scale American Freedom Train I did myself as no one makes one yet

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  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,459 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1northcoin said:
    Some added odds and ends....

    .... or as Julie Andrews would sing, "A few of my favorite things!"

    Below is my photo of the original Faberge' Egg as displayed in the Kremlin's Armory Museum with its gold key activated working clockwork train commemorating the new Trans-Siberian Railway.

    It was presented by the Tsar Nicholas II to the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna as that year's Fabeerge' Easter egg and later that year it also featured at the 1900 Paris World's Fair which featured Russia's Railway achievement.

    (At an original purchase price of 7,000 rubles its present day value is likely in the range of the 30 plus million dollars other Faberge' Eggs have been valued at by experts. The Kremlin has had possession of it since 1927.)

    OK, back to coins:

    And revisiting my movie memorabilia "Imperial Seal" prop from the Jackie Chan/Owen Wilson "Shanghai Knights" movie.

    Finally, a painting I had commissioned based upon photographs that I had taken in Hawaii:

    @Twobitcollector said:


    I just received the Reading sign yesterday. The N scale American Freedom Train I did myself as no one makes one yet

    Gotta love those railroad collectables. Arguably the pictured train that came inside the 1900 Faberge' Egg remains the World's smallest working train. Its moving mechanics were crafted using watch maker skills.

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,459 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Twobitcollector
    Like it. Now you just need to add a Monopoly Card that matches.

  • Aspie_RoccoAspie_Rocco Posts: 3,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I fix broken game consoles and have gradually accumulated a video game collection of PS1, PS2, PS3, and Wii consoles and games. Heh... about 630 PlayStation 2 backup games not shown, and several other consoles.

  • alefzeroalefzero Posts: 994 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Too many things to list.

    I know people collect coin show dealer ribbons. I cringe at the prospect of future third party grading of covid vaccination show wristbands. But should have removed them more carefully each end of day at Long Beach.

  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,997 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a small collection of ka-Barr knives. Yes a small collection but each one is a standout with the original boxes. Ka-Barr dog head knives.

    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,459 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Aspie_Rocco said:
    I fix broken game consoles and have gradually accumulated a video game collection of PS1, PS2, PS3, and Wii consoles and games. Heh... about 630 PlayStation 2 backup games not shown, and several other consoles.

    How many of them do you still play?

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,459 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool

  • Aspie_RoccoAspie_Rocco Posts: 3,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1northcoin said:

    @Aspie_Rocco said:
    I fix broken game consoles and have gradually accumulated a video game collection of PS1, PS2, PS3, and Wii consoles and games. Heh... about 630 PlayStation 2 backup games not shown, and several other consoles.

    How many of them do you still play?

    The Wii most often.
    Resident Evil 4 and RE umbrella chronicles, Gauntlet, twisted metal black, Phoenix (the old arcade game), and GTA3. I was recently given the PS3 and games, have never played it at all but it’s great for blue rays and dvds.

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,459 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,272 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A sample. The sticker with Cox and Roosevelt on it was once in Edmund Sullivan's collection. It's a great substitute for a Cox and Roosevelt button, which can sell for as much as $50,000.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?

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