Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

Beautiful gun and grips midas 1.

Here are is a pair of gold/silver grips for one of my 45's. I ended up selling them as I tended not to use the gun when I had them on.



And a nice engraved gold plated Walther. Not mine. A friend's. It was one of 3 ceremonial guns that one of the more infamous persons in history owned. My friend owned 2 of the 3.

 

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Of late, I find myself collecting old SLR film cameras. Haven't fount any old Nikons yet, but Minolta and Olympus abound. Picked up an old Topcon yesterday..........

 

No way. How would those not be in a museum somewhere??

 

"Beautiful gun and grips midas 1"

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"Here are is a pair of gold/silver grips for one of my 45's. I ended up selling them as I tended not to use the gun when I had them on."

Those .45 grips are spectacular! Really museum quality.
Was the pistol engraved?

"And a nice engraved gold plated Walther. Not mine. A friend's. It was one of 3 ceremonial guns that one of the more infamous persons in history owned. My friend owned 2 of the 3."

Another amazing piece.
I wonder what happened to his personal Lugers?

 

AH? I didn't know Alfred Hitchcock owned a Walther....or perhaps Audrey Hepburn?

Just kidding. That is a pretty macabre piece of history considering how evil the original owner was, and also the fact that he put a bullet in his brain to end the nightmare that gripped Europe for 6 brutal years.

 

"I will say the antique that bores me the most are clocks. Mantel, Pocket, Grandfather, you name it. Just don't care for them."

I'm fascinated by the incredible workmanship in some antique fine clocks and watches. Somewhere around here I've an old pocket watch from Constantinople now Istanbul.
If you've ever looked at the workmanship and the mechanicals of a high quality pocket watch or clock it's amazing. Intricate engraved precision parts mounted on jewels. Knocks me out. I don't need drugs to get high.

 

Other hobbies... lets see. Ive shown this before but my other money pit, other than coins is this:



Used to look like this


Full restoration of a 1968 Mustang with numbers matching 289ci V8. The original color was the emerald green that I recently painted in the first picture. Somebody painted it blue to match the origianl aqua blue interior. Emerald Green was a special order color from Ford. Turns out this common C-code mustang is the only known Color of the Month of March promotion done amongst Colorado dealers. According to build dates this is the only known "St Patrick's Day Special." It is only 1 of 63 1968 mustangs given a special paint color with aqua blue interior. But this is mine now. It is emerald green again and this time will be matched with a much nicer black interior.

 

Thanks, there are many, many more items in the collection. Lol. Do you do any
gunsmith work yourself?

 

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No. The most gunsmithing I've done is as a kid when I reblued my Father's Savage .22LR bolt action rifle. It did not need to be reblued and he was not pleased.

I've always been fascinated by the gunsmithing involved in creating miniature firearms. Used to be an apprentice gunsmith had to build a miniature gun before he could complete his apprenticeship. Original gunsmith apprentice models are very desirable and very expensive.

 

The grips were not useful to me, so they went away. If I remember correctly, someone overseas bought them.

My friend had literally thousands of museum pieces. Many owned by the most infamous ever known. Such as this:


Belonged to Kesselring. My friend had 3 or 4 others.


Gorings'.

His son was named after a particular famous jewel-encrusted dagger from the same venue, but I don't have photos of that.

It would be interesting to know.

 

Another post of an incredible collection.

When I was growing up it seemed all of my buddies houses had German and Japanese items their fathers' had brought back from WWII. Some of the items were horrifying . At the time I was too young to fully grasp their meaning.
On the lighter side were lots of Nazi helmets and Nazi daggers.

 

Yes, my father and grandfather also brought stuff back, which was interesting. I regret most was not asking more questions of both. They didn't talk about much except mostly non-combat stories. Grandpa was a sniper, my dad was one of the first on Omaha Beach with the Engineers.

 

Interesting guess. It's an ice bucket, I'll post a picture of it open when I get a moment.

 

During the 60s, while my brother was living in Greece he bought a Nikon F (attached external light meter) w/ every accessory he could think of. Durings the 70s he told me he could never get it to take a decent picture. He gave it to me w/ all of the accessories. While I was in Washington, DC, I took it to the Nikon dealer that was used by professional photographers. They lubricated the lenses and recalibrated the shutter and light meter. That camera still takes great pictures. Some years later, my mother gave me her old Leica M4, another great camera. Besides pictures of the Nikon and Leica I've included a photo of some of my folding cameras I display.

 

Chess, birding and golf are my hobbies.

 

That is one hellofacollection (run on intended so as not to infuriate the mods).........

 

Thanks, I get a lot of pleasure from them. Don't have room to display them all.

 

Im a ham radio operator and collect stamps too. Im an extra class ham, and a commercial radio op too.

 

One never has nearly enough room........especially when you have to share the area with a 'crafting wife'........she needs three homes (not rooms) to display her wares. I'm simple and relegated to a corner.

 

You too, Ken? My wife does embroidery. Between the machines, the fabric and the thread, there’s only room for me in a small area as well.