Most unusual or odd collection, not limited to coins?

northcoin

As a kid I used to collect imprinted paper bags of small size. It is interesting to look back and see the logos of businesses that no longer exist. What odd/unusual/ or different things have you collected in the past?

dorkkarl

ever hear of the plaster-casters?

(uh, no, i wasn't 1 of the "collectors")

K S

Nysoto

Hubcaps of orphan automobiles. Have Auburn, Pierce Arrow, Oakland (where Pontiac started), Peerless, Marmon, Hupmobile. The brass screw-on hubcaps are the most desirable. Also have DeSoto hubcaps of almost every year 1929-1961. Have 1939, 1950, and 1955 DeSoto's.

The nice thing about hubcaps is you don't have worry about cleaning and polishing them, although I have left some of the brass ones with the toning they aquired over the years.

Also collect artifacts on the Nyberg automobile manufactured in Anderson, Indiana from 1899 to 1913.

Whitewashqtr

Sorry.. Wrong Forum.

Rampage

T.V. Guides. I have a couple of hundred. Kept the ones that had pictures of the things/people I liked on the cover. i.e.....Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, Married W/ Children, Carol Burnette.........etc...................

MadMarty

I hear Lucy has one of Elvis's toenail clippings!

mercurynut

As a kid there was an elderly gentleman who collected coocoo clock birds...not the clocks just the birds. At the time I thought that was the strangest thing to collect.

nwcs

I read about on CNN a man and woman who went around the country collecting bras. They were making something called a bra ball. I think they had a ball that was several feet in diameter. You can probably do a search and find out more. That's the most odd thing I heard of that people have collected.

As for me, the only thing I collect is coins. I have previous collections of things from when I was a kid. Mainly some comics (selling or trashing them soon), trading cards, and minerals. But that's about it.

Neil

nucklehead

Shhhhhh, I still dabble in postage stamps (old U.S.only) please don't tell anyone,would'nt want to be thought of as a stamp nerd.

Elcontador

I used to collect unused barf-bags from various obscure airlines on which I had flown (Aeroflot, etc).

nwcs

Hmm, my brother collects the barf bags, too. Although he uses them as wrapping paper for gag gifts to his friends.

ccr

<< <i>ever hear of the plaster-casters? >>



HAHAHAHAHA. Yeah I heard of them!!! They where from Chicago and the first one they did was Jimi Hendrix. I saw the brunette one on TV a few years ago and they have them on display. They did I think over a thousand of them and Hendrix, she said, was the biggest by far. She said that she took a class in high school to learn how to make molds from plaster. When she graduated from high school, she had to make a living at something. She said that at the time that was the only thing she knew how to do. Thats what she said. A bizzare site to behold because they showed a few " samples " of there work including the " Jimi Hendrix Mold " .

Elcontador

Every now and then I'd bring a lunch to work in one of the barf bags. I got some perplexed looks from people.

morganbarber

My sister knew a guy who collected dried roadkill toads.

lablover

I would say the most unusual or odd collection would be coin collectors and coin dealers.

airplanenut

<< <i>I used to collect unused barf-bags from various obscure airlines on which I had flown (Aeroflot, etc). >>

Do you still have them? I have loads of safety cards from airlines around the world, as well as a few barf bags- most proudly displayed on my wall )

Elcontador

Jeremy,

I'd have to do some looking, but I think I still have a few of them around. About the only thing I 'display' per se is the one page "Jeff Dahmer Old Wisconsin Cookbook" which is taped to my refrigerator.

mrdq

WHACKY PACKAGES

ClarkOfKent

Ex-wives. Now, there's an expensive hobby.

66Tbird

old CPU's, red LED calculators, and rubik type puzzles.