It's best to collect friends and partners This got my curiosity also.:eating: I actively collect coins & rocks. That is all I collect today. In the past, I was active collecting guns and bullets (both antique and modern). I have not added to the gun collection for many years. I enjoy a few American Indian antiquities as well as attractive statues & framed art. This is more for decoration than collecting.
I don't think he's telling us the price of that Pepsi... And no no common people in Andromada dnd Star Trek.
Wow! Some beautiful guns in this thread. I collect them as well. Here's a couple of my favorites. That is a 30 rnd mag in the Glock and it does have a custom, stainless barrell I put in it. The AR is an Armalite M-15 with the handguards changed out including a few other odds and ends. Coins are my primary hobby above all else right now. I do like currency and have dabbled a bit in that. I have a few notes I'll be looking for at the show this Sunday. Currency is absolutley beautiful. Collected baseball cards as a kid. Got back into it in the early 2000's and got burned again. When I was a kid, I thought I better buy all I could before I couldn't afford them anymore! Problem is, a $20 card was a big deal then. I mainly collected Nolan Ryan cards. Got burnt in the 2000s by some idiot players who wanted to cheat and that was it for me. Just lost interest. You can't spend $80- $100 on a guy's card and then have him destroy his reputation and not be able to GIVE the card away!! Very frustrating. But it's more than that. Just too much crap out there now. Still have thousands of cards. My good collection is probably around 200 or so. A few I'd never sell. They're still valuable and have too many good memories in them to ever give up. I used to collect live coral but got out recently. Just too much of an extra hobby on the side. I do miss it already though. I somewhat collect watches. Unintentionally but have quite a few now. My newest is my favorite. A solar powered Citizen Eco-drive BL-8700 I believe it is. Perpetual calendar. It does some neat stuff. If I ever hit the lottery, I would collect more coins,more guns, have multiple reef tanks set up, art, antiques, R/C planes and probably set up a model railroad in a warehouse. I would also collect Civil war stuff and dinosaur fossils. I would never be bored.
Mp5 I don't collect them anymore but I did see a nice one last month. It was being held by a Romanian Federal Police officer (SLI). His was chambered in 9mm but it is available subsonic chambered in .45 also. I stick with coins & rocks today.
I love my 2 Mylflam Table Lighters! I picked these up at an antique store for $27 for the pair, a heck of a steal since they each have a solid silver high relief rap and are from the late 1930's- early 1940's Germany.
Nice lighter's!!!:thumb: That bottom one was one like my grandmother had on her coffee table! I rember it well I hit my little brother the with and it cracked. has yours have a crack around were the lighter pulls out to be filled????I grew up in upstate NY I know most of her estate was auction off by the 8 siblings, to a auction house in Quincy Mass area :kewl:It would a really cool if that lighter has the crack I spoke of
i use to collect Spawn comics, I should at least fill the last of the ones I dont stopping at issue 100. I also use to collect knifes and swords but because of my daughters birth decided not to have so many sharp objects in the house so I onle keep one battle ready sword.
My son was collecting comic a kid. Spawn #1 was one,he bug me and the wife 15-20yrs age to buy a box of cover both types & that $200.00.and now made him a few $$$ selling pairs of Issue #1
I have a few medals and medallic art rounds but those can easily fall under exonumia and numismatics, so I guess the only thing I really collect that isn't coin related is Clive Cussler 1st Edition books. I used to have a large Star Wars toys collection, but it got quite expensive.
I collected Spawn. I had the first 100 copies. Spawn, and all the rest of the comics from that era, never went anywhere price wise, so I gave them up.
No That is an awesome story, but no, mine has no crack, and who ever sold them to the shop I found them brought them in together as a set to sell as consignment. My biggest luck there is that only the young Lady was working the day that they came in, so the old guy that runs the shop never saw them come or go (I am sure he would have kept them at the price whom ever dropped them off wanted)
I use to collect glass rocks. (blown glass that looks like rocks - most have a touch of silver like polish brushed across them). I still have most of them. Now, I collect limestone rocks with fossils in them. We have a creek running through our place, and when the creek drys up, I sometimes would find some pretty neat pieces to haul back with me on my walks. (note, I have not been able to take these walks for years, but think I am up to it this year). I need to consider pulling out the metal detector, as we have a few old mid 1800's pioneer settlements on the property too. --P.S. Our creek is called Coon Creek -and appropriately so I might add.
Hub Caps....well, that's what you were thinking. Actually, it's stamps, US postage stamps, not those self adhesive ones, old stamps that were a work of art.
I have about 1,000 shotglasses. I was a bartender for 15 years, and I would often get promotional samples from the liquor distributors. Then I started adding antique shots, ones from places I visited, professional and collegiate sports championship teams, etc. The curio cabinet I use to display them holds a little more than half the collection. Chris