What other antiquities are you into? Show something old and cool!

bennybravo

I believe that most of us have some sort of gene that just makes us like older stuff from times gone by. This is a crucible brand pockeknife, produced in New York in the late 20's. My father is the person who inspired my collecting bug from a young age, coins, knives, many other antiquities, and I'm sure many of you have a similar story. Show off something neat that isn't a coin.

asheland

Many other things I collect, but I guess my most interesting is the Silver:

Mr_Spud

Mainly antique medicine bottles and equipment & scientific equipment

bennybravo

Wow! That looks exquisite and amazing. Thanks for sharing!

bennybravo

Mister Spud, that is an amazing collection. I am in awe. Love those pieces!

jwitten

I’ve been bitten by the ww2 gun bug pretty bad lately. Garands and carbines. I have 8 different manufacturers of the carbines and more Garands than I should. I need to buy more coins but this has been my latest focus.

Ownerofawheatiehorde

@jwitten said:
I’ve been bitten by the ww2 gun bug pretty bad lately. Garands and carbines. I have 8 different manufacturers of the carbines and more Garands than I should. I need to buy more coins but this has been my latest focus.

RickO would be proud.👍

DarkStar

Tournament books from the first six American Chess Congresses:

bsshog40

I collect pocket watches and vintage wrist watches. Here are just a few.

hfjacinto

I have a collection of meteorites, these are the oldest items one can own, literally as old as the solar system. Approximately 4.6 billions years old.

Downtown1974

@jwitten what an incredible collection! Love the way you’re displaying them too!

I have a lot of antique collections, just not a lot of pictures of them.
Here is one of my collections…vintage Pyrex. It displays nicely in the kitchen.

bennybravo

These are all fantastic collections folks!!!!!

jfriedm56

I have a nice collection of early glass plate photographs along with daguerreotype photos and tin type photographs. Here’s also a Kodak Brownie camera from early 20th century.

Lakesammman

Collect white ironstone - have an 1850's piece from the early days of CA. Not sure where the other pictures went!

bsshog40

@jfriedm56 said:
I have a nice collection of early glass plate photographs along with daguerreotype photos and tin type photographs. Here’s also a Kodak Brownie camera from early 20th century.![]

I have a picture very similar. Lol

Lakesammman

Aha - here it is - Gothic Cameo - next to a one of a kind Ironstone Chicken!

braddick

First edition Mormon books.

1946Hamm

1887 Gorham whisky hip flask and a collection of W.H. Grindley ( Clifton pattern) 1891-1914 fine china.

124Spider

I like old mechanical clocks. In a way, they're even better than coins--I have all of them out, ticking/striking/chiming. Every 15 minutes, there's a concert in my house for a minute or so.

This one was made by a London clockmaker, sometime between 1784 and 1790.

bennybravo

Wow everyone. Amazing items!

PerryHall

@124Spider said:
I like old mechanical clocks. In a way, they're even better than coins--I have all of them out, ticking/striking/chiming. Every 15 minutes, there's a concert in my house for a minute or so.

Do you have to wear ear plugs when you sleep?

Floridafacelifter

I admit I do enjoy having some Majolica and garden frogs around

Barberian

Perfect lead in... I like to discover and describe undescribed insects, including a new species of midge whose larvae mine through senescent stems of Nymphaea (shown above in FLfacelifters's majolica Nymphaea). These species are millions of years old, so they're antiquities as well.

Polypedilum epleri

jfriedm56

@bsshog40 said:

@jfriedm56 said:
I have a nice collection of early glass plate photographs along with daguerreotype photos and tin type photographs. Here’s also a Kodak Brownie camera from early 20th century.![]

I have a picture very similar. Lol

The men in the photographs do look similar, but mine is a glass plate image and yours looks to be a photograph on paper or cardboard which I believe was produced decades after mine.

1946Hamm

Some old nice cameo's.

ThePennyLady

Found this really cool 14k gold turn of the century thimble in a very rare original leather case at the PNNA coin show earlier this month. I inherited my grandmother’s silver thimble and my mother’s porcelain thimble collection so this fits in quite well.

Pghpete

Wow! Great hobbies. I collect Enrico Caruso 78s to play on my 1928 Victrola. Heard about the man at some point growing up. When I bought the Victrola, the seller threw in a couple of his 78s and I was instantly attracted to his voice. While I'm not an opera fan by any stretch; the strength of his voice, captured on a mechanical machine, rather than an amplified machine makes me marvel at the sound quality from that time period. Oh yeah, I also collect geodes.

SaorAlba

I have several old carbide lamps, my family owned a gold mine in the lower Sierra Nevada mtns in the teens and twenties, these were my great great grandfathers.

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124Spider

@PerryHall said:

@124Spider said:
I like old mechanical clocks. In a way, they're even better than coins--I have all of them out, ticking/striking/chiming. Every 15 minutes, there's a concert in my house for a minute or so.

Do you have to wear ear plugs when you sleep?

Excellent question! The answer is "no," for two reasons: (i) one does get used to it, even when sleeping, fairly quickly, and (ii) we no longer have any clocks that strike or chime in the bedroom, and keep the door to the rest of the house closed when we're sleeping (to keep the cats from walking on us at night, but it has the beneficial side-effect of keeping noise out).

fastfreddie

Many other collections...good grief!

Here is a small collection of bottle holders executed by German and Austrian firms circa 1900-1910. Pewter, brass and copper.

fastfreddie

Clocks too...

Walkerguy21D

SmEagle1795

My favorite non-coin piece was an impulse buy from Heritage. I end up coming across it every handful of months as it goes viral in various parts of the internet which is a reminder that people geek out over non-coins more than coins:

Disclaimer: it's only about an inch high so unlikely to turn into Jurassic Park but I'm still tempted to try.

asheland

Here’s another cool one, Gorham 1883
handmade

DNADave

I have a hard time picking one thing. If one is good then 10 is better, right?

bsshog40

@jfriedm56 said:

@bsshog40 said:

@jfriedm56 said:
I have a nice collection of early glass plate photographs along with daguerreotype photos and tin type photographs. Here’s also a Kodak Brownie camera from early 20th century.![]

I have a picture very similar. Lol

The men in the photographs do look similar, but mine is a glass plate image and yours looks to be a photograph on paper or cardboard which I believe was produced decades after mine.

Ya, I don't know how old it is. Just a pic in a sleeve. It does have the old tax stamp on it.

Ownerofawheatiehorde

@jfriedm56 said:
I have a nice collection of early glass plate photographs along with daguerreotype photos and tin type photographs. Here’s also a Kodak Brownie camera from early 20th century.

I love old photos too, I'm not sure if I have any ambrotypes or daguerreotype,s but I do have quite the collection of tin types, well over 50 I think. Here are a few that have been scanned.

1946Hamm

bsshog40

@DNADave said:
I have a hard time picking one thing. If one is good then 10 is better, right?

Have you called "American Pickers" yet? Lol

joeykoins

Not a specific collection.
Just anything "old and odd!"

DNADave

Here’s a couple of tin type albums. One is just very small, the size of postage stamps.

And a stack of sugar ration receipts

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A pre- World War II Ainu Ceremonial Trade Bead Necklace with attached medallion, otherwise termed a Shitoki:

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The original Train Faberge egg located in the Kremlin's Armoury as I viewed it there. (It was made in 1900 to commemorate the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railroad and was displayed at the 1900 Paris Exhibition.

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