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What is the best non-numismatic collectible you have seen?
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If you are a numismatic nut you meet other collectors and you quickly find out other collectors have other interest beyond putting together a Seated Dollar set.
I, as many of you surely have, run across a lot of guns. Most are pretty standard "prepper" types who have piles of firearms but I have run into quite few who were really into collectible firearms and one in Colorado who had quite literally turned his basement into a massive display of his prized firearms including at least a dozen blunderbusses.
I also had couple that collected African tribal art. It is strange to see a guy in rural Southern Indiana have a farm house stuffed with that stuff.
I, as many of you surely have, run across a lot of guns. Most are pretty standard "prepper" types who have piles of firearms but I have run into quite few who were really into collectible firearms and one in Colorado who had quite literally turned his basement into a massive display of his prized firearms including at least a dozen blunderbusses.
I also had couple that collected African tribal art. It is strange to see a guy in rural Southern Indiana have a farm house stuffed with that stuff.
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I'd imagine the list of cool non-numismatic collectibles is nearly infinite.
I had a collection of antique local postcards from my home town going for a while.
As to the African tribal art, we lived in Tanzania when I was a child and brought back some Masai woodcarvings. I had a chess set where the "knights" were giraffes and the "castles" were grass huts and the kings and queens and pawns were all quite fierce looking. I'm sorry I sold that several years back.
Oh, also- we are fortunate enough to live in a place (coastal GA) where we can go out to the dredge spoil heaps and find fossil shark teeth. Check out the monster megalodon my buddy found. The brute who lost this one would've made Jaws look like a minnow!
I haven't found any remotely that nice, but I have found a couple of big 'uns and some big partial Megs, plus a number of other cool species. It's fun, and unlike metal detecting, which I also love, it doesn't take any special equipment. Just an attentive set of eyes.
arrow heads, and his eyes lit up. Turns out he was a third generation collector (and he was ~60) of Indian artifacts, and actually had built a room onto his
home to showcase the large collection the family had amassed over the years, mostly from the Midwest and Southwest. Thousands of spear points and other stone tools, but also some rare ceremonial pieces, carvings, a full chief's headdress stored in a large glass bell jar, some sort of club or weapon carved from petrified wood with symbols engraved in it, even a few human bones with broken spear points lodged in them (yes they came from burial mounds, that were excavated for a highway being built many decades previously). The collection was dispersed about 15 years ago.
Better yet a love token on a Megalodon Tooth
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Say, that tooth looks slightly familiar... is that Georgia sand I see in the crevices?
This covered my melon in college hockey, and some of the NHL game worn and signed masks from the 1970's-1980's bring 5 figures in the sports collectibles market today. Yours truly built this one, and a few others for some "lodge brothers".
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Say, that tooth looks slightly familiar... is that Georgia sand I see in the crevices?
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Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA
http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistr...dset.aspx?s=68269&ac=1">Musky 1861 Mint Set
Love my wacky packs!
Okay, I'll bite, what is a wacky pack?
bob
oh well, the fun is in the hunt!
bob
Love my wacky packs!
Okay, I'll bite, what is a wacky pack?
bob
I remember those waaayy back in the day!!
I was about 7 or 8 circa 1974 and I was addicted to those!!
They were like trading cards that had peel off stickers and they made fun (cartoon parody) of brand named products.
i.e. 'Weakies' instead of 'Wheaties' cereal.
I bought them and traded them like baseball cards. All the kids had them.
Wow, major blast from the past!!!
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This piece has crossover appeal since it dates to the 1850-60 period, Gothic, white English ironstone. Whalley was an early importer to the California market. Unusual to find a piece that is so intact with matching marks on the base and lid.
I'm going to collect corvettes. Still looking for my first one,,,,got to be a '58.....
oh well, the fun is in the hunt!
bob
I can think of another year you might try.
I picked up a chainsaw at an estate, wanted someone to check it out turns out I got a collectible chainsaw and the guy who worked on it collects saws. He has about 130.
Another time after conducting some business in NYC, I accompanied him to Sotheby's where he had consigned some early portrait paintings for auction. In the same sale were several enormous weather vanes, all one of a kind folk pieces, and most of them either eagles or American Indian motifs. The largest was an ornate chief standing with his bow drawn back in the direction of the wind. I found out after the auction that the chief hammered for just under $6 million.
EDIT to add a link to the auction above, the weathervane sold for $5.84MM
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Love my wacky packs!
Okay, I'll bite, what is a wacky pack?
bob
I remember those waaayy back in the day!!
I was about 7 or 8 circa 1974 and I was addicted to those!!
They were like trading cards that had peel off stickers and they made fun (cartoon parody) of brand named products.
i.e. 'Weakies' instead of 'Wheaties' cereal.
I bought them and traded them like baseball cards. All the kids had them.
Wow, major blast from the past!!!
No kidding! Those were great. They were meant to be stuck on lunch boxes.
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Love my wacky packs!
Okay, I'll bite, what is a wacky pack?
bob
I remember those waaayy back in the day!!
I was about 7 or 8 circa 1974 and I was addicted to those!!
They were like trading cards that had peel off stickers and they made fun (cartoon parody) of brand named products.
i.e. 'Weakies' instead of 'Wheaties' cereal.
I bought them and traded them like baseball cards. All the kids had them.
Wow, major blast from the past!!!
No kidding! Those were great. They were meant to be stuck on lunch boxes.
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I am of a similar age (turned 9 at the end of 1974), and my boy cousins and I thought those were a laff riot. They always had them.
For some reason, I never did. I don't think Mom was a big fan of them.
I'm not surprised they're a popular nostalgia collectible nowadays.
FWIW, I never had a bike with a banana seat, either. Or Star Wars figures. Or toy guns (the last were verboten in our household).
Only hockey memorabilia, as that was a big part of another life a few decades [ ] ago.
This covered my melon in college hockey, and some of the NHL game worn and signed masks from the 1970's-1980's bring 5 figures in the sports collectibles market today. Yours truly built this one, and a few others for some "lodge brothers".
Bet that mask comes in handy on Halloween nights, particularly if you have some large cutlery or a chainsaw to accessorize with.
I've seen lots of more expensive things offered over the years, including many paintings that brought in the tens of millions, but nothing turned me on like that book.
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Seashells anyone?
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I believe that the artist worked for Mad Magazine.
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I collect space memorabilia from roughly World War II to the present, but predominantly from the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo era (1961 - 1975). Actually today is a good day for a picture, as 7/20/69 was the first Moon landing and Moon walk. So, on the 47th anniversary...
Here's a US flag that flew on Apollo 11:
Here's a picture of the launch signed by all the Flight Directors for Apollo 11 (Clockwise from upper left: Gene Kranz, Glynn Lunney, Gerry Griffin, Chris Kraft). FWIW, the Saturn V has just gone supersonic, hence the water vapor condensation about halfway along the rocket body.
Here's Buzz giving me the finger. We're discussing a page of the Flight Plan that I own...
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All of that aside, my favorite collection is the one of photos of fun times with family. Really, nothing compares.
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I believe that the artist worked for Mad Magazine.
That's Jack Davis.
Yes, he was a founding artist for Mad magazine, and lives here in my hometown. Or lived, rather- I just noticed on the Wikipedia page that he died yesterday!
My daughter got to meet him last year and got an autographed piece of art- I forget what. Now I'll have to ask her.
Jack Davis, 'MAD' Magazine Cartoonist, Dies at 91
PS- I guess these might be worth buying now, huh.
Wow. A blast from the past! My brother used to collect sea shells back in the early 60's. At that time, the Glory of the seas, or Conus gloriamaria, was the most sought after shell in the world with only about 10-20 specimens in collections. Now I just found out that one can purchase one on Ebay for under $20. Large numbers of Conus gloriamaria were found off of the Solomon Islands in 1969, which knocked the price down from thousands of dollars to $12.99 on EBay. I may buy one and surprise my brother. He hasn't collected shells in 50 years but he'll probably still recognize it's characteristic shell markings.
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There are all kinds of stories circling around about the Glory of the Seas. One of the most famous that was eventually discredited was a Danish Collector who purchased one in auction and immediatedly crushed it so he would still have the only one known.
Another shell that has lost a tremendous amount of value is the Golden Cowrie. This happened because they learned who to raise them in captivity!
There are many other shells that quite the opposite is true. Much of this is due to man causing the extinction of so many species.
I think that if I was to start a new field of collecting that it would be antique tools.
It is not a new field, I have a small collection of early 20th century hand tools that were my great great grandfather's.
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I still have quite a shortwave radio collection though......
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