What do you collect?

I collect Chinese watercolors, Persian flatweaves (Kelim and Soumak - and Oriental carpets in general), Ikat, Chinese vases, Cloisonne, gem & mineral display specimens, bizarre seashells (Sea Urchin shells being a major interest), carved jade....there's more, of course, but I switch interests back and forth all the time. Oh, and plants. I have an unhealthy obsession with rare plants.

I use the one from the Space and Rocket Museum to shoot tequila.

I don't travel much anymore, but I do have a pretty good collection.

I don't really drink much anymore either, but I do like how the collection looks.

drill. But I decided that I was gonna have to do something to get through this second term of bush*! I used to collect matches and miniatures, but had to cut that out when one child wouldn't leave the matches alone and another found the little bottles actually had something in them. Drank one that someone had brought me from Germany and I wasn't too happy about that to say the least.

scrapbook stuff that I haven't put in a scrapbook yet...

I'd never seen her much, but I thought she was fantastic.

Mostly Anime cels and movie cameras. My movie camera addiction is petering out as of late because most of them are totally useless now.

These are my favorites:

Beaulieu 4008zmII - French made super8, The coolest movie camera ever! Doesn't it look like a Star Wars gun? :)


And my 16mm Beaulieu

My neighborhood is overrun with the little devils!

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And pre-1940 postcards, mostly of Fort Worth, Egypt and New York City - although the unusual is always a nice change. Poetry books, ephemera, art papers, well, just papers of all kinds.

Early jazz recordings, vintage clothes.

Old and rare, baby.

and see my uber-cool vintage record player...

certain Hallmark Christmas Ornament series
souvenir Christmas ornaments from travels
pottery and tiles
silver charms for my bracelet

dustbunnies
dirty laundry

and, apparantly, cats

Herpa aircraft.

I think that's it, at the moment.

Lake Superior Agates, Fairburn Agates, Laguna Agates, Jaspers, Keokuk Geodes

luckily at estate sales i can get pre-antique store prices.

small fans
toasters
heaters
coins
old hand-painted dessert plates
aphabet blocks
bottles
old old potato mashers
old wooden kitchen utensils
old books
old salt and pepper sets (crystal mainly)
BUTTONS

Seriously.

:)

ANGELS! I really have some beautiful angel collections!

and original 1970's home decor items and architectural findings.

I would collect...but I'd get fussed at

and restaurantware.

I collect some Depression glass as well - mostly cobalt blue.

But I've been known to accept many things: pegasi (not unicorns, which, IMO, are for sissies), most things cat related, fonts (at least they don't clutter the house), books, old computer parts (not willingly, but when you upgrade your own PC all the time, it's inevitable), kitchen paraphrenalia, recipes, software, kitchen magnets and keychains.

In fact, fonts deserve their own thread. Have you ever run across a program to help organize them??? I usually type out a reference key ever so often, but it's a phucking ordeal anymore.

to me, but there were more than poor Font Thing could handle at one time. It's a free program, and you can find it at almost any or all download sites like ZDnet or Cnet, but for the life of me, I haven't found any other programs that have the ability to display multiple fonts so that you can sort them quickly. X Fonter can handle the amount of fonts, but it seems to be only to show one font at a time. When you've got as many as I do now, it's difficult to sort them one at a time. (In case you're wondering, I've got definitely over 50,000 now, probably closer to 75,000, if not more.)

I'm an obsessive collector when I have the money -- I like old french and German toy kitchens and shops, anything about a certain sixties actress, typewriters, leather-covered books, ivy plants, and postcards of insane asylums (used only) and amusement parks.

Buttons, banners, badges, etc. .

:)

Not on battlegrounds or in National Parks, of course.
So, I have a nice collection of buttons, bullets, old coins, and a nice eagle breast plate.
Unfortunately, now that I live in the south, I discovered the "guys" don't like "wimmen folk" in their club.

pewter , books , rocks , milk glass , stuff

But also other aspects of history.

DVDs
CDs
Byers Choice Carolers
Steiff bears
Japanese books
Japanese Kokeshi dolls

Things shaped like dachshunds, w/ dachshund pictures on them etc. I have statues, mugs, rugs, foot stools, planters, serving trays, ornaments, picture frames, book ends, earrings, pins, necklaces, rubber stamps, cookie cutters, blankets, socks, purses, uhh, I guess you get the picture. I keep trying to stop (I swear) but other people keep on buying me things!

I prefer cookbooks from the 40s, 50s, and 60s, but I have some earlier versions from the 20s and 30s, and a few as late as the mid-70s. I collect vintage kitchenware (I look for specific things, but I also pick up other pieces that fit in with my style and decor).

I collect vintage board games and memorabilia from game shows of the 50s and 60s.

and Dunhill pipes, manufactured in 1952 or earlier (the so-called "patent years").

:thumbsup: :bounce:

Two "Klagetoh" and one "Two Grey Hills", all very small. I also have three Souix pipes from Pipestone, Minn. and vaariouss other carvinngs from the Pacific Northwest. I would love to get some Kachinas.

I'm obsessed with them. The detail is unbelievable.

Where I got this amazing demonstration of how cloisonne is done. It was a series of eggs, all the same size, each at a different phase of the cloisonne process -- starting with just a copper egg, the a copper egg with copper edging for the pattern, then with the first round of color, etc. It was so beautiful. And it got lost in one of my many moves.

Sorry you lost that - it must have been fascinating. I lucked out on Cloisonne at a very early age. I bought a plate at a garage sale in Seattle when I was 17. I had it for some years before I had it appraised and it turned out to be a genuine Ming temple piece. I stil have it. Same thing with carpets, really. A wonderful old apartment building was being destroyed (imploded) in Seattle and we did a scavenger hunt in it before the big boom. I found an antique Qashqi carpet in it. Worn, but absolutely stunning and worth a good deal. Qashqi remains my favorite style of carpet, and most of my Soumaks are from there (the Fars region in SW Iran).

First editions, most signed and/or inscribed

This came about by accident...I also collect books, and when I would go to a new bookstore, I would also pick up a business card (if they had one). After awhile, I realized that I had a pretty good collection of the business cards, so I started contacting stores that I hadn't been to, just to see if they would send me a card.

I also asked a few "celebrity" bookstore owners (or book collectors) to send me autographed business cards.

So even though I still collect books, my bookstore business card collection is around 1,800 right now.

Tim

Indigenous peoples arts & crafts, cold war memorabilia

tickets and booklets from concerts I went to, old calendars (I just can't throw them away) and orchids, my favorite plant

Records, magazines, toys, board games...what ever peeks my interest...

well come to think of it most of my stuff is old from the 18th century.

and Day of the Dead objects.

:smoke: Bobby Darin at the Copa:evilgrin: ultimate cooool:smoke:

Word to the wise -- don't loan same to me. I own a small black hole into which borrowed books vanish.

The kind that have a cover price of 50 cents, and then I go to half-price books on their additional-30-percent-off-paperbacks days, and load up.

Specifically medals and insignia. Little pieces of history you can hold in your hand.