Collections

June 14, 2018, 06:40 PM

H&K-Guy

Collections

Many of us collect various types of firearms. Some of us collect other items as well. There is everything from stamps to coins, fountain pens to watches, knives to flashlights, etc.

I’m thinking of starting a fountain pen collection. This made me think:

What do you collect? What are you thinking you would like to start collecting? Do you have pics of your collections to share?

H&K-Guy

June 14, 2018, 07:14 PM

dlc444

I have a half-dozen pocket watches of various vintage. Nothing too valuable, but if I had more disposable income, I would learn more and collect.

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June 14, 2018, 07:19 PM

Fenris

My collections are somewhat modest, and I certainly don't have very expensive examples of anything much. Often it seems more like accumulating than collecting per se.

Watches
Chronometers
Books
Encyclopedias
Tools
Knives and swords
Reproduction Roman helmets
Spam
Hawaiian shirts
Baseball caps
Broken things I'll never get around to fixing

I did have an expensive collection of three teenage boys. But one is going off to college in the fall.

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June 14, 2018, 07:39 PM

P-220

I collect Fountain pens.

Vintage Parker, Waterman, Swan, Wahl, Conklin.

Duofolds from the 90's as well.

Not great pics, but here are a few.

Niech Zyje P-220

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June 14, 2018, 07:51 PM

benny6

Coffee cups from Starbucks from each country I visit. I began this before they became all political and stuff and before BRCC was in business. Now they don't get any of my business.

I've got coffee cups from:
-Singapore
-Japan
-Korea
-Taiwan
-Vietnam

My wife collects anything Disney. You could sell her a pooper scooper if it had a Mickey on it. She's got Disney:
-shirts
-coffee cups
-fruit bowls
-silverware
-Thomas Kincade paintings
-cookie jars
-necklaces
-coasters
-Cinderella Lego castle
-Other Disney legos
-Garden gloves
-Waffle maker
-Desert bowls
-Kitchen utensils

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June 14, 2018, 09:38 PM

flashguy

I collect items made of cobalt glass--I have more than 300 pieces. Here is an example:

DSC_2735.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

Only cobalt can give glass that deep royal blue color.

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June 14, 2018, 09:57 PM

Skins2881

I don't collect anything. I hate stuff, I want as little stuff as possible. I have a number of firearms and many hundreds of lbs of ammo, don't consider it collecting. Nothing collectable, just a few reliable, awesome SIGs and some boring 22's.

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June 14, 2018, 10:23 PM

Rightwire

I've collected various things over the years.

When I was a Fire Fighter I collected fire antiques and equipment, the spare bedroom in my house is the 'museum'

I've always collected baseball hats. Not from teams but I just always seem to get them for one reason or another.

I started collecting shot glasses years ago. Every time I travel somewhere that I've never been I pick up a shot glass. I have close to 100 at this point.

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June 14, 2018, 10:44 PM

Outnumbered

quote:
Originally posted by OKCGene:
Vintage Cast Iron cookware, nothing new.

Me too. I'm using the trivet from the Griswold 10 Dutchie to press bacon in the 12 Griswold skillet. Coupla old Wagners in back. Nothing fancy, but old, flat, and smooooothhh. Everything gets used.

June 15, 2018, 12:32 AM

smpsmp

quote:
Originally posted by Rightwire:
I started collecting shot glasses years ago. Every time I travel somewhere that I've never been I pick up a shot glass. I have close to 100 at this point.

Thats like us. My gf buys a magnet for everywhere we have been and it goes on a metal board hanging on the wall I made. We have a map with pins on it too to mark the spots on the world.

Other than that, not much we collect. Everything tends to have a purpose.

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June 15, 2018, 04:47 AM

PHPaul

As others have said, not so much collect as accumulate. Wife is into spoons. Any state we've been to, some other countries (Japan, Iceland, Canada)

I like 1/64th scale farm toys and construction equipment. Some of that is an odd (larger) scale. I also have a few 1/16th pieces but good ones (Precision Scale) are stupid expensive. My stuff is pretty much all sandbox quality.

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June 15, 2018, 04:54 AM

wolfe 21

I have a lot of books, but none are valuable and I hesitate to use the word collection. I tried to collect an example of each state quarter when they were released, but never got all of them.