Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

I have my uncle's old Zippo, passed on to me when my father passed away. I have a couple of Zippos which, of course, also come from Bradford.

 

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Orfew, I'm envious of that Leonard Nimoy-signed Spock card. The role is so iconic and he was such a great actor and humanitarian, one of my personal heroes. I was into ST:TOS books for quite a while but kind of lost interest after a hundred or so, and really some of them just aren't that good. Too many writers who have an agent who could cut through the Paramount trademark roadblock, but who just didn't get the characters. But I digress.. As a writer, my profession and my main hobby are one in the same. I also collect movies on DVD and am planning to get into glass engraving by the end of the year. Hmm... maybe use a coin design or two as a pattern

 

Ditto. Learned quality Single Malts from friends when I ex-Patriated in the UK.

 

I shave with the Astra. Good blades for me. Have since I was early-early Teen.

 

I worked in blade manufacturing for almost 40 years. Believe it or not, edges will gradually break down and lose their sharpness. I have several razor blades from years back that are just not as keen.

 

Yes, sir; that they do. In fact, Zippo now owns W. R. Case and has kept production of both traditional knives and the classic Zippo "wind proof" lighters there. This is especially heartwarming as Bradford is really a very small and rather remote "city". Beautiful country, though, and an area I very much enjoy visiting. Actually, they've built a very nice museum and visitors center that alone is well worth the trip for anyone venturing to the region.

Very cool to have something like that passed down from family... congrats!

 

The uncle, my dad's youngest brother, whose Zippo I have was killed in action at the Battle of the Bulge less than three weeks after I was born. He was 19.

 

Wow... that wasn't what I expected. This certainly makes it that much more precious, not only to you because of the family connection, but to all of us as a tangible piece of history.

Very nice, sir, and thank you for sharing the story. If you've photos and would like to post them, it would be an honor to see it.

 

Coins on Stamps, model railroads, astronomy, Long Island Rail history.
http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/lirrcontents.htm

 

I have the photo of my uncle in his 101st Airborne Division uniform. My grandmother had it hand painted over his high school graduation photo. I have never digitized that. My pictures of my father who was a career army man, have not been digitized either, but I have pictures of both of their grave sites on my computer. My father served in three military conflicts from WWII to Vietnam and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. My uncle is buried in the family plot in Holidaysburg, PA, along with his mother and father and three of his eleven other brothers and sisters. Four of my uncles served in WWII. God bless America.

 

Thanks Aetheired for starting this new thread and showing enthusiasm for Astronomy. My other hobbies are Stamps, I have almost all stamps issued in India. Next is numerology and astrology.I am collecting Date, Time and Place of birth of friends and acquaintants and trying to know what planet or numbers attracts a man to numismatics. Still I am collecting data only and not reached to an ultimate conclusion.

 

Besides collecting coins I make jewelry, just started making rings from old silver coins. I use quarters, halves, & dollars but nothing that would go in my collection.

 

I cut & polish rocks, collect fossils & make silver jewelry. Just started making coin rings from silver quarters, halves, & dollars but nothing that would go in any of my collections. Just an old guy living large and having way to much fun in this life.

 

That's a good use for old silver coinage that has no collector value and maybe not even a face value anymore. Do you have much difficulty in finding the source material such as in foreign coinage and worn out domestic coinage?

 

Forgot to mention earlier that I also collected records for a long time and have a few thousand languishing in storage since my marriage went south. Also fast-food toy premiums.

 

I'm down from about 4500 LPs to maybe 1000; of course I have lots of CDs too. BTW my other hobby is gourmet cooking, and spending crazy dollars on kitchen tools.

 

My collection runs about 4000 LPs, 400 or so 45s, and a couple hundred 78s including Bill Haley's 'Rock Around the Clock' on 78 (it was the B side...) and a Beatles 'Yellow Submarine' picture disc 45. In all the time that I was building that collection I never found a copy of Norman Greenbaum's 'Spirit In The Sky' LP.

 

Not one bit Richard thanks

 

Earlier, I posted that I collect Humpty Dumpty's so that the Grandkids could have fun with them. I bought these from a cool place in France (hand made and painted resin). I loved the first one so, I gave it to my Daughter for her office desk, and got another for myself.

Cool... I received mine today. But, when I put them together, they proceeded to beat up a couple of Trolls, then sat down laughing about the exploits... now they are just chillin' together...
(Yeah, it was a massacre)


Ok, coin for keeping the thread honest:

RR Anon AR Quinarius 211-210 BCE 16mm 2.14g SE Italia mint Roma V ROMA Dioscuri Cr 85-1a SYD 174 RSC33b ex RBW SCARCE

 

WWII stamps...
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