Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

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  1. spirityoda

    spirityoda Coin Junky

    Just bought this beauty of Ebay for $83. Hot Wheels Redline Super Chromes P-911 Porsche 1974 Hong Kong Base Preowned NM

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    This car is in amazing shape. Not to much paint loss and the chrome is not pitted at all. Back in the 1980's this real car was just a day dream. Still just a dream. It is going in my clear case for sure.
     
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  3. Sidney Osborne

    Sidney Osborne Well-Known Member

  4. -jeffB

    -jeffB Greshams LEO Supporter

    I think that's actually more of a tic than a hobby. ;)
     
  5. masterswimmer

    masterswimmer A Caretaker, can't take it with me

    Now THAT was funny!

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  6. spirityoda

    spirityoda Coin Junky

    1 more cat for the cat figurine collection. Cobalt blue "Fenton". Now I can say I have a "Fenton" cat.

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  7. Only a Poor Old Man

    Only a Poor Old Man Well-Known Member

    'New' book just arrived! But it is actually now the oldest in my collection.

    It is in Latin, pocket-size, and it is about the life of Christ. It was published in 1596 and it has 35 really nice miniatures with scenes from the life of Christ. The binding looks like it has been recently restored. What do you think @BenSi ?

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  8. BenSi

    BenSi Well-Known Member

    @Only a Poor Old Man that is an excellent addition to any collection. Nice wood cuts illustrating it. Congratulations.
     
  9. Southernman189

    Southernman189 Well-Known Member

    "WOW", is the only word come to mind
     
  10. Bill1517

    Bill1517 Active Member

    Coins are my first love, but I dabble in comic books. My Neil Adams Green Lantern #76 is my prize.
     
  11. +VGO.DVCKS

    +VGO.DVCKS Well-Known Member

    Absolutely brilliant, @Only a Poor Old Man. One of my favorite things about books that old are the ms. notations. ...If I had to guess, it would be that those are still woodcuts (...vs. copper ...?), but they're really finely done. Congrats!!!
     
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  12. Mac McDonald

    Mac McDonald Well-Known Member

    This is the longest thread in terms of pages of comments/replies that I've seen since becoming a member (in January, I think)...fun and interesting as a diversion from coins but also to connect with others of same/similar interests to be sure. That said, have wondered, what is the main purpose when threads are reposted, whether a day or two or a month or year(s) since the original...? Are there new posts and/or material to read...assume at the very beginning or end, else how would one find them within, in this case, 97 pages of previous posts...?
     
  13. Only a Poor Old Man

    Only a Poor Old Man Well-Known Member

    I think you are spot on. All my other antique books which are primarily 18th century have copper plates. The tell-tale sign is the visible border around the images that indicate the intaglio technique. Here is an pic of a page from another book in my collection that dates from around 1700. I added red arrows that point to the border I am talking about:

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    In my new book the images look like they are part of the text and have the generic characteristics of a woodcut. But for a more detailed description of the different techniques, here is an interesting link (how did we ever survived before the internet)?

    https://collation.folger.edu/2012/02/woodcut-engraving-or-what/
     
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  14. +VGO.DVCKS

    +VGO.DVCKS Well-Known Member

    Many thanks for your illuminating comments, and the fantastic link!!! Bookmarked it.
    ...Never got to the Folger Library, but I did see the Ellesmere Chaucer in the Huntington, the one time I was in LA. It's a Massive folio; it was open to the Wife of Bath's Tale. Put their two Gutenberg Bibles in the shade.
     
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  15. Beau1010

    Beau1010 New Member

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  16. otlichnik

    otlichnik Well-Known Member

    Very nice Beau1010. Amazing that you have found all that stuff. I envy you being in a place where that is possible.

    By the way, I suspect that your lead tesserae, with the inscribed cursive script, may be a curse tablet or tabella defixio. Some were rolled up tightly, others, like yours, nailed to something.

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  17. BJBII

    BJBII Metrologist, CSSBB

    A little overlap with coins.
    Columbian Exposition Souvenirs
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  18. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

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  19. clembo

    clembo A closed mind is no mind

    Cooking!

    I love to eat so it only makes sense to be able to cook.

    I recently finished my outdoor cooking pit using cinder blocks.

    Getting ready to do some stir fried chicken.

    I think I might be the only 58 year old kid on the block with 3 woks.:rolleyes:
     
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  20. bcuda

    bcuda El Ibérico loco

    How about collecting beer cans I have over 5000 different one's. And I really haven't collected that many since 1983 20210411_143029.jpg 20210411_143018.jpg
     
  21. Victor_Clark

    Victor_Clark all my best friends are dead Romans Dealer

    another "hobby" I have is coin photography, though it irritates me and my pictures often disappoint me. Latest group--

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