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Collections - 1/23/2006 6:02:59 PM   
Aileen68


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Status: offline 		So I'm watching Antiques Roadshow, drinking a beer and surfing.
Made me think...what do you collect and why?

I collect original artwork.
Mainly abstract watercolors.
I collect them just because I love to see beautiful things as often as possible.
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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 6:18:20 PM   
michaelGA


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Status: offline 		i collect dolphin stuff. because i love dolphins. i have a collection of dolphin plates from the Bradford Exchange...cost me enough.

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 6:25:41 PM   
Quivver


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Status: offline 		oh boy! Collecting Stuff!
...............Yea...................
geez, where to start! Old Wood Boxes. Old hand Tools, Camera's, old CowGirl Art is the newest.. and of course Critters, 4 Legged rather then 2, but I've learned not to take home Strays!
LOL
Great Post!

Q

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 6:30:03 PM   
TypeWriter


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Joined: 10/4/2004
Status: offline 		I collect:

  • Antique Typewriters - I love the look of them. Portables with round keys =)
  • ScionxB Toys - I have a cool car and they make toys of them so why not collect them.
  • Books about comic writing and especially Allan Moore - He knows the score.

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 6:41:37 PM   
siamsa24


Posts: 2426
Joined: 2/2/2004
Status: offline 		Star Wars anything and everything. At last count we had a collection in the thousands (pieces that is)

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 6:46:04 PM   
FelinePersuasion


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Status: offline 		It'd be quicker to say what I don't collect and why lol, I am a major pack rat

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 6:50:19 PM   
MHOO314


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Status: offline 		Sets of antique china, antique crystal and china tea cups.

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 7:05:53 PM   
mnottertail


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Status: offline 		Telephones, radios, dishes, enamel, kerosene lamps, old norwegian books, Block and Tackle in size 3 and 4 (think about it you got time) Zap comix, Shadow books and comics, Herbie comics (not the love bug) and Old farm and building books, old pharmocognosy books (herbs for healing), old workbenches (beds to you uninitiated), women, divorces and the usual............

Ah, Christ, now I am coming apart thinking about what I gotta get yet.

Aileen you cheesy individual, now you made me nuts.

Laughing Maniacally,
Ron

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 7:07:39 PM   
Aileen68


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Status: offline 		LOL...and I was just about to say "What, no cheese?"

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 7:14:02 PM   
mistoferin


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quote:

Sets of antique china,


Oh Oh...you wouldn't by chance have an extra coffee pot lid for "Blue Garland" pattern Haviland Bavaria China would you?????? I've been searching for one for a couple of years now!!!!!

As for what I collect...oh my!!! I collect Belleek, Wedgewood, Fairies, Pigs, Advertising collectibles, old tins, old wood boxes, miniatures of all kinds, Jadite kitchenware, glass juicers, Celtic stuff, Rosary beads, Hummels, antique pitchers, Coca~Cola.....oh well, you get the picture...I need help!!!

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 7:21:36 PM   
KatyLied


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From: Pennsylvania
Status: offline 		cobalt blue glassware. It's like the depression glass, I have canisters (two canister sets), tea pitcher, vases, candle holders, a crazy assortment of stuff. It's special because one of my best friends started the collection for me and when she goes to yard sales she's always picking something up to add to it.

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 7:42:32 PM   
fergus


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Pack Rat here too.

I guess you could call the things I never throw out a "collection" by defaukt ;)

Okay, I do collect coins (particularly nickles) .... Mad Magazines (nerdy, I know)

Old tools.

sawdust. There is always endless amounts of sawdust.

fergus

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 7:46:39 PM   
IceyOne


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Status: offline 		Anything to do with wolves...paintings, figurines, artwork, etc

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 8:17:18 PM   
champagnewishes


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From: Orange County
Status: offline 		---heads for the pack rat line

Fast food toys (well use to at least....45 boxes full at last count) as it was one of the few things that brought me pleasure during a nasty divorce.

50's hats...to hang on my bathroom wall...which led to beaded purses, gloves, perfume bottles, compacts, hat pins, handkerchiefs and estate jewelry to match...making my bathroom close to the most expensively decorated room in the house.

Bells
Suns and Moons




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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 8:19:35 PM   
siamsa24


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50's hats...to hang on my bathroom wall...which led to beaded purses, gloves, perfume bottles, compacts, hat pins, handkerchiefs and estate jewelry to match.


Oh how fun! I love it, you may have inspired me to start a new collection!

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 9:14:43 PM   
FelinePersuasion


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Status: offline 		ORIGINAL: fergus

*sigh*

Pack Rat here too.




Dude, pack rats unite:D

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 9:15:31 PM   
veronicaofML


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From: from iowa..now in wisconsin
Status: offline 		"I" am not.......allowed...........to collect....anything.......physically tangible..


so i only have my 60's music...and some john wayne movies.


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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 9:24:28 PM   
mnottertail


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Status: offline 		Dude...

There was a Mad Mag with Lyndon Johnson in it, I don't remember the story line but he whips out his six shooter and says, This here's mah peacemaker....... you don't happen to know the issue do you (mid to late 60's I am sure)? That's one I wanna get..........

Thanks for any info.

Ron from Fergus Falls, MN (musta named it after you! LOL)

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PACK RATS UNITE! - 1/23/2006 9:25:46 PM   
fergus


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quote:

ORIGINAL: FelinePersuasion

ORIGINAL: fergus

*sigh*

Pack Rat here too.




Dude, pack rats unite:D


lol, I don't know if we need a thread for this or not?

I don't want to hijack the lovely and talented Aileen's thread ;)

But, okay, just what makes a Pack Rat different from a collector? At a guess I might say it is the difference between collecting fine art and useless junk ;) - though I can't say my tools are useless (just covered in endless sawdust).

Okay, few more items:
I don't TECHNICALLY collect guitars, but I reckon when you have seven or so it get's to be called a 'collection' ;)

Hmmm .... I have more chess sets than is needed for one person ... oh yeah, and quite a pile of other more geeky sort of gaming equipment.

I USED to clloect war memorabilia - got rid of most of it, but I still have the canteen that my great-grandfather carried to france in 1917.

*whew* Now I am just rambling ;)

fergus

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RE: Collections - 1/23/2006 9:28:07 PM   
fergus


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quote:

ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Dude...

There was a Mad Mag with Lyndon Johnson in it, I don't remember the story line but he whips out his six shooter and says, This here's mah peacemaker....... you don't happen to know the issue do you (mid to late 60's I am sure)? That's one I wanna get..........

Thanks for any info.

Ron from Fergus Falls, MN (musta named it after you! LOL)


My Mad magazines from the 50's and 60's are 'spotty' and incomplete ... got a more specific date?

fergus

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