Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

I appreciate your wood. I stopped trying furniture years ago when I ran out of patience and places to put more big things. I was never into fine furniture but enjoyed a folk art approach. I still try little things. This mirror is 'Vanity Thy Name is Worm'. It started as an excuse to use up a tiny scrap of ebony that became the worm and other small parts.

 

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When you have more than 1 of something, you technically have a "collection", right?

So back about 2 decades ago, I was at a gun show and for $40 picked up a WWII M1935 Turkish bayonet. It wasn't until last month that I started researching it more and find out more about it. Here it is:

M1935 Turkish (AS.FA, Askari Fabrika) knife bayonet, designed for the 8mm Mauser M1893 and M1903 rifles. With original leather belt frog. (10" blade, 14.8" overall)

This past month I've added 2 more bayonets to my new collection:


M1913 Spanish (Artilleria Fábrica Nacional, Toledo, Spain) Mauser sword bayonet, with early production checked grip and original soft leather sheath. (15.6" blade, 20.5" overall)


M1874 Sutterlin Lippmann & Cie. French t-back sword bayonet crafted in 1875. For use with the 11mm M1874 Gras rifle. With numbers-matching sheath. (20.6" blade, 25.5" overall)

 

Fun Collection Justin.

 

Other than fossils and astronomy, which I've shared with you guys before, I just started a collection of World War II stamps and space themed stamps.

For WWII stamps I'm basically trying to get a representative sample of the stamp output of the main players: US, UK, USSR, Japan, Italy, and the Third Reich...plus a few stamps from the occupied nations such as France, Czechoslovakia, Greece, China, etc...showing stamps made by the occupying powers and stamps put out by the allies to counter the propaganda of the occupying forces.

And as far as space-themed stamps, I've always been a huge space buff and I'm fascinated by the hundreds of stamps depicting space heroes and space missions that have been released by dozens of nations around the world.

I used to collect stamps when I was a kid, and it was a fairly fun and cheap hobby (still is far cheaper than coin collecting), so why the heck no? For a dozen bucks a month I can probably get enough stamps to keep me busy researching for half the month, and I can devote the rest of the month to my main hobby, ancient coins.

 

@Sallent , I have a big collection of stamps that I got from a home I was hired to dispose of everything or keep what ever I wanted. I will see if there are any stamps that your looking for and you can have these for the cost of the shipping . Just be patient I will not be able to get to the stamps for at least a month . As far as other collection I have a big collection of semi precious gems stones and some fossils , and crystals . I was big into the gemstones until I got suckered on an auction site which claimed all stones to be authentic which they were not and got scooped for 4k. So I only buy the odd stone now and concentrate on the coins . I have been trying to get into the ancients , and received some excellent info from @Doug smit . I still have a long way to go until I get really going on the ancients. Dillan

 

Sweet, thanks. Much appreciated. Hey, if you see any Cuban stamps, I'd love some too given that that's where I was born.

 

Anybody here into model trains? Specifically LGB. These are G gauge model trains.

With just about 1,000 posts in this thread I didn't read through all of the posts. Sorry.

 

As a compulsive collector I've found auctions are the place to satisfy my addiction. I'm posting pictures of a high quality Mission style table I picked up for around $100.00 a while back and a painting (measures appx 21"x12") I picked up at a different auction. My friends continually asked me how I find this "junk." I routinely reply it finds me, which is kinda true. If anybody interested I've got a lot of previous posts to this thread.

 

"Anybody here into model trains?"

HO Italian steam engine 2-2-3-2 w/ original box that I picked for $300.00
I saw an identical engine sold for >$800.00 at a model train site.
Somewhere around here I've got a box of Marx tin trains from the 30s or 40s.

The chess piece is 3 1/2" tall hand carved from ivory. I was attracted to it because of the carved puzzle ball at the base. When I was a kid I saw a
carved ivory Chinese puzzle ball the size of a softball. I'm still looking for one.

The pictures, taken w/ my phone, do not show the exacting detail of the train and chess piece or the accurate color of the items.

 

I admire your patience and craftsmanship. Is the ship model a kit or hand built?

 

Kind of obvious what my other hobby is.

 

Great painting from a well known painter, who moved to US in 1970, so it was prabably painted in Maryland.
I didnt know he did naive art paintings.

 

Nice postcards! The Goeben is a bit different from the rest as it had a very long career and was only scrapped in the 1970s (what a waste)

ATB,
Aidan.

 

I know nothing of the artist. I just knew when I saw it I wanted it.
I think I paid around $50.00 for it
.

 

First is a .25caliber Colt pistol with bronze rose pattern grips from
around 1892. A couple of years ago, I took it to get it appraised.
Can't find it in the house. Next is the inlaid chest I use to store my stock
certificates. Next is a figure with wings about 22" tall. Behind
the winged figure is an original Haitian painting on canvas.

 

Quite a deal.
If it happens to be original painting its worth way more.

 

Thanks. I'll check into the artist.

 

Performed in and crewed on > 90 films and TV

http://www.imdb.me/Brina

 

Bought this print (26"x19") a few years ago, but haven't done anything with it because I need to buy an antique frame for it. What caught my eye is the demonic looking Oriental guy holding the opium pipe.