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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 2858544, member: 21309&quot;]Currently, I&#039;m collecting antique curiosities and contemporary oddities,</p><p>a favorite are three quack medical devices from the 1900s called Faradic Therapy boxes.</p><p>These devices emit varying strengths of electrical current.&nbsp; Each has devices that can attach to almost any part of the body.&nbsp; One of the manuals states the box will cure consumption, falling of the womb, writer&#039;s cramp, torpid liver, etc.</p><p>Militaria including large WWI &amp; WWII portraits of officers and enlisted men.</p><p>My favorite is a WWI large framed certificate of a soldier kneeling before a ghostly figure of a woman who is placing the flat side of a sword on his shoulder.&nbsp; I believe it&#039;s some kind of a recognition for being wounded.&nbsp; I have not researched this one.</p><p>Embossed artillery brass shell from the 1917 battle of Verdun, France.</p><p>Old genuine hand carved wood face masks from different countries. </p><p>&gt;24 cameras, majority are folding cameras, Zeiss Ikon, Kodak, Leica, Nikon, etc</p><p>Large, at least 90y/o, vacum tube 3&quot;x12&quot; mounted on a wood base.&nbsp; At least one tribe in the Pacific used to worship these tube as a fertility symbol.</p><p>Turn of the century and earlier&nbsp; post cards, esp holiday cards.&nbsp; A lot of these cards have really increased in value</p><p>Too much more to mention. I&#039;ve got so much stuff I need to rotate the displays. </p><p>We&#039;re moving soon I&#039;m not looking forward to packing up this stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anybody wants to see pictures of the any of above I&#039;ll post &#039;em</p><p><br /></p><p>My brother and I still fly remote controlled powered model airplanes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another casino opened near where I live. I researched/played a few different table games then settled on craps because some bets only give the house a 1% or less advantage.</p><p>During my late twenties I played competitive backgammon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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