What else do you collect?

Nice hiho, I've had many Strats, Teles,a Mustang ,a Danoelectric double neck, Les Paul gold top, LP deluxe with the mini humbuckers also a gold top, various other Les Pauls, Bill Lawrence Strat with a Floyd Rose tremolo now that guitar screamed and many other I can't remember.

Amp wise I went thru just as many all kinds of Fenders, Marshalls, Ampegs. I finally settled on a early 70's Les Paul Special and a Mesa Boogie amp.

 

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I had a 1969 Les Paul goldtop. I loved it but it weighed 12 pounds and gave me a bad back. The PRS is much lighter.

My favorite amps are Marshalls, Voxs and Ampegs. The little amp lurking in the background is a Reverend Hellhound. Amazing is an understatement.

 

Coins is my passion but I also collect guns. Semi assault rifles, semi hand guns, and revolvers. Love going with my son and wife to the shooting range often. My wife loves the AR, my son loves his .22 and I love my AK.

 

Besides coins, 1960's baseball cards and Beer steins ( mostly Budweiser).
Got any spare Roberto Clemente cards?? Ha Ha:high5:

 

I should have listed that as well. I have a decent lot of video games from the atari 2600 to the PS3 but I get more enjoyment playing games from the 80s and 90's. I still buy many used games from that era to this day.

 

When I was a kid it was stamps. But they are so fragile and so many things can go wrong with them.

When I was in college it was pinball machines. But they are *so* heavy to move, take up a lot of space, require constant repair/maintenance, and are very expensive. A truly joyous hobby though when everything goes right.

 

Jazz CDs...Have about 600, mostly hard bop. Also about 50 LPs.
DVDs -- movies and vintage TV shows of the '50s and '60s.

 

I'm trying to avoid it, but I have a small collection of antiquities. Two carnelian seal stones, a red glass cameo gem, and about twenty terra cotta bullae.
Baktrian
Red glass cameo
c. 185-180 BC
Diademed, draped bust of Euthydemos II
For bust, cf. Bopearachchi Série 1


Terracotta bulla
1st-2nd century AD
Two togate figures
Ex F. Bollman Collection; Ex PBJI

Bullae were seals attached to documents or orders as a means of authentication. The reverse of the piece bears striations from papyrus or cloth and still bears the fingerprints of the official who pressed it.

 

^Those are slick.

 

German Beer Steins, Music Boxes, Pocket Knives and lots of other things.

 

Great thread.

I grew up in the 60's and 70's and the famous expression was: "That'll be worth something someday."

So...... I have coins, stamps, 45 RPM records, 78 RPM records (because they'll be worth something some day), two cartons of Vinyl "regular" records from the 1970's, a cobra CB radio from 1977, oh... this is getting embarrasing.

I will proudly admit that I recently threw out our 1979 remote control for our garage opener back then. We had long since lost the motor assembly. Woo Hoo!

 

I HAVE a stamp collection but I can't say that I actively collect them. They sort of come to me. I collect first editions of popular books (talk about preservation problems, coins are nothing compared to books). I collect enlongated pennies (technically these were coins). I collect and file away all that US Mint literature they send me as well as red books etc.

 

This is a pretty cool thread. I have collected numerous things since I was a kid.
baseball cards, comic books, arrowheads....
Afew years ago started collecting case knives and know I have around 200.
And now it is coins, specifically lincoln cents.

 

Serious and active collecting:
• Coins,
• Currency,
• American Bank Note engravings
• ANA, BEP, et al. Souvenir Cards

Occasional and active collecting:
• Color Vinyl Record Albums,
• Old Cigar Boxes (mostly paper board, and some wood),
• Vintage Hallowe'en decorations

My inactive past collecting categories:
• Duncan Yo-Yo's,
• Comic Books,
• Vintage Postcards,
• Stereoscopic and Lenticular images

 

besides coins, i collect anything old (by old, i mean 19th century or earlier), baseball memorabilia (including cards, autographs, programs, etc.), and i have a stamp collection, but i am not active with it.

 

Interesting thread.

Guitars? I play them, but don't collect them. (I have a Tele and Strat, as well as a few others.)

Fossils are real cool...but I don't know my history before BCE 753 (the year Rome was founded).

What do I collect? Bad beat stories in Poker.:headbang:

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That fossil is the coolest thing I've ever seen.

 

I have some old books, the oldest is a geography book from 1795. " A New System of Modern Geography". By William Guthrie. I collect anything that is small, old, and made of metal, especially copper & brass...

 

Are you serious? If so, I can give you some absolute doozies. There used to be a guy who ran a website called riveredagain.com where one could submit their best bad bead stories to win a weekly award. He got married and had to stop the site. Let me know if you really want to hear some, like how I flopped a nut full house and lost to a royal flush on the river.

 

I just knewwwww this question would pop up!
For me, still, U.S. and Canada stamps, comics (silver age), minerals, bottles ( old ones that I hunt for and dig up), postal history, DVD's of shows from the 60's, records (16, 33,45,78 RPM's and Edison Cylinder recordings, antique radios and phonographs. I wonder if this is why my wife left me?:computer: