Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

Here's a little Kodak camera from the late thirties or early forties, a 1915 Kodak film development box complete w/ cranks, spindles and manual. Only one I've seen in all my years of collecting cameras. And a couple of nicely carved decorative Asian masks:

 

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Yes.

 

Coincidenatally, I also play guitar. In my case, blues on electric guitar. I played semi-professionally through the 1990s.

 

A wonderful ice-fishing afternoon with some French friends on Champlain Lake. A lot of fishes, cheese, delicatessen....and vino!

 

I’m completely jealous. Although I live in Rhode Island, and we’re famous for long cold Winters, we haven’t had ice freeze to a safe thickness in 5 years. Looks like you had a blast! Is that a yellow perch I see?

 

I collect legos.

 

oh and meet my tortoises...

 

Tortoises:
I read when we hear the sounds of doors opening on the Star Trek Enterprise movies. The sound is from tortoises mating.
No kidding.

 

Exactly.You know your fish my friend. My wife was so pride of her catch.Talking about Rhode Island, we took our summer vacations 4 years in a row in Newport. What a wonderful place. I've never visited so many mansions in one week! And the beaches were super. No wonder why JFK got married there!

 

It’s a great place! Tons of history there. I’ve worked in Newport off and on for years.

 

YUMMY PERCH!!! Caught a lot of those... but, I definitely threw the concept of “catch and release” out the door!

 

Cool. I've just been reading Dead Lucky by Lincoln Hall.

 

He sure was lucky!
I certainly have Himalaya dreams now and then, but they are usually cured by looking at photos of the crowds on the Hillary Step.

 

Currently cataloguing a massive collection of Cuban stamps. I'm about 70% done. The collection has hundreds of different stamp types, and each stamp type has 20-80 individual examples of it's type in the collection. As the owner is going to sell them, and he has so many of each type, I charging in stamps. I get 1 to 3 stamps of each type depending on how many duplicates there are for each type.

Will photograph what I've collected so far tomorrow or Monday. It will be far from complete though, as I still have a good 30%+ to sort out and catalog, so I don't yet know what other stamps I'm going going to find and what I'm going to get to keep from that until I get to it.

Collection seems to range from the 1890's through 1970's though. It's by no means complete, but it is a fairly representative sample size of the history of 20th century Cuban postage history.

 

Here's what I've organized in my stock book so far of my personal Cuban stamps collection, most of which I've acquired free of charge thanks to @LaCointessa 's generosity, or through freebies I've gotten cataloging a collection for someone else....






I've still to organize another 80+ stamps......



Plus I'll probably be adding an additional 70-100 by the time I finish cataloging the entire collection and receiving my share. I think I'm going to have to order a much larger stock book before I continue the task.

 

1943 was a good year for Cuban stamp designs

 

Yeah, I love the 1943 "Anti-5th Column" series warning about infiltrators, spies, saboteurs, etc. It's so very WWII.

But my favorite Cuban stamp is the 1950 Tabaco Habano stamp, featuring a Cuban cigar and the national emblem of Cuba.

 

Looking at that collection, I simply can't explain why I don't collect stamps. Beautiful and fascinating!

 

Very nice collection.

 

As much as I love what you guys do, I'll never be a coin collector, but I love seeing and reading about the coins you find and the stories behind them. My interest is more on artifacts, although I can't really afford those, either (hahaha). Still, I picked up this ancient Roman stylus that I'm going to display with the picture shown here, since she's holding a stylus and tablet. It's the famous portrait found on a wall in Pompeii - I did some editing, because the original has some pretty distorted facial perspective, and I printed it out and put it in a clear acrylic 5x7 borderless frame, and the stylus will be mounted somehow either on the edge of the frame or next to it. Very simple, but cool to me.