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Posted By: Jerry

Every Once in awhile someone Post a thread about members other collecting interest besides Baseball Cards.
Well, I have been working on photographing and posting whats left of my toy collection. I have about 90% of it up now and thought I would show it off.
I'm afraid only the senior citizen (I am One) members will be able to relate to these toys.
Just like my card collection, this is just a fraction of what I use to have.
Please post photos of your other collectibles.
Thanks for your indulgence
Jerry

http://imageevent.com/ruckers/vintagetoys

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

I try to do a lot of traveling while I'm "young" and don't have all of the other commitments I will have in the future that may prevent me from traveling. However, I was never much of a souvenir hunter. So, about 10 years ago, I started collecting a Hard Rock Café guitar shaped pin from every place I traveled (assuming there was a Hard Rock Café there). I recently picked up my 50th while in China. Some of my more interesting ones are Dubai, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing (just to name a few). I also stumbled across one from Pisa Italy while there, but the funny thing is – there isn’t a Hard Rock Café in Pisa. A local merchant had the pins made up to sell.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

I'm own a collection of original fashion photographs, and wrote a small out-of-print book on the subject with a Vogue photographer (actually, I wrote the text, he supplied the photos).

http://www.cycleback.com/fashionphotos/

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Posted By: JimB

I know I am not alone here. Who else has a collection of these?








Edited to reduce size.

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Posted By: JimB

Couldn't fit a whole page on my scanner.

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Posted By: Scott

I collect first edition Alcoholics Anonymous "Big Books". I only try to get ones with original unaltered dust jackets. There were 16 printings and some can be quite scarce. I'm considering old baseball books as an additional collection and I've been getting some good knowledge from watching this site. Not ready to take the plunge yet though.
Thanks,
Scott.

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Posted By: David

I collect Maker's Mark bottles and other Maker's stuff. Also collect various Kentucky bourbon items. Here is a link to my collection...

http://s205.photobucket.com/albums/bb150/sdf3dag/

Almost as expensive and time consuming as card collecting...but love to do both!!!

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Posted By: Paul S

I'll be the first to comment on back-to-back posts on collecting AA Big Books and whiskey bottles. S'what I love about this board!

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

I collect old T-Birds.....I really enjoy working on, and cruising around in my 1957 or 1960 Ford Thunderbirds.


Hey STEVE MURRAY.....

If I make it out to the Chicago National next summer, I'll drive out with one of these "babies" and we'll have a race on I-90 with your
sweet looking Jaguar.
I'm showing you my rear decks, just because when those dual 4-barrel Holleys cut-in, I'll be leaving you in "dinky dust".......Ha !

TED Z

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Posted By: Jerry

Hey Ted
I had a 59 T-Bird in High School. I think it had a 351 in it. I never could get it to run right so I traded it for a 57 Chevy. Hard to beat a 283 Chevy.

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

Ted - LOVE the T-Birds! Although my taste may not be as focused as yours, here are some of the beauties I play with.

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Posted By: peter chao

Don't tell me you can actually read the tibetan text.

Peter C.

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Posted By: Steve Murray

I think by the time of the National I may have taken delivery of my Aston Martin. Now you don't even want to tangle with that bad boy.

P.S. You better make it here so we can spend more time chatting than we were able to do in Cleveland.

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Posted By: MVSNYC

I collect Modern Art (mainly my dad's work) & Vintage Industrial Tools/Objects...

I guess I will use this opportunity to show you my father's website and art, IF anyone is interested in buying a painting or having custom work done, please let me know...

www.michaelsarno.com

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Tell me, what's under the hood of that Aston Martin ?

I saw a classic one last week at the Summer Antique Car Show here in Pennsy.

TED Z

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Posted By: Joseph

LOVE the toy collection...I can't imagine anyone who likes 1909 baseball cards not identifying
with these. Thanks for showing.

I collect 19th Century New York City guide books and directories (which listed a person's address and occupation and business listings).

The guide books enlighten on the lost and the arcane. For instance, this ad for PT Barnum's Museum from an 1845 guide makes quite clear the origins of the Wednesday and Saturday matinee. Another of
Barnum's great contributions to American pop culture!

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Posted By: Steve Murray

520 @ 7000 rpm

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Posted By: JimB

Peter,
I can read the Tibetan. I have done quite a bit of translating, including for the Dalai Lama.
JimB

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Posted By: JimB

I wonder if you know my uncle from the car world. Drop me an e-mail.
JimB

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Posted By: Keith O'Leary

thanks all, I enjoyed. Peanut roasters and single cylinder gasoline engines

http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f92/vwtdi55/RoastersnEngines/

and for smiles, some pictures I took inside a friend's house..

http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f92/vwtdi55/Todd/

my collection http://s45.photobucket.com/albums/f92/vwtdi55/

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Posted By: E, Daniel

Wow Keith, me thinks your friend lacks focus . The safe is a beauty, but I'm trying to work out the significance of the peanut butter???


Daniel

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Posted By: B.C.Daniels

I dig the TR 3.
I had one of those then a tr-250 irs then a sunbeam tiger( I still have)
then a TR-6 and a few TR-4a's as well.

if you have had that long,you would know plenty about cars for sure being as those puppies breakdown daily. thanks for the pics

BcD

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

Brian - thanks for the compliments. The green beauty is actually a TR2 - 1954 TR2 to be exact. It has a very early chasis number and is slightly different than most TR2's. Was about a 5.5 year ground up restoration. Car took a National first though, and then Best of Show at the Canadian Nationals.

Oh - and yes - break often is an understatement. Every year, it's one of them that gives you hell.

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

OK guy....if I go to Chicago, I'll fly....I know when I'm beat, my 50 year old Bird can't compete with those numbers.

Best regards,

TED Z

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Posted By: Kevin Saucier

Just noticed this thread:

I collect authentic relics from or related to the Titanic. Some of the real high-end stuff. Here is the website:

http://TitanicItems.com/

Also there are some cool Hollywood collectibles...like the Lone Rangers (Clayton Moore) real silver bullets. Only about 60 known to exist.

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Posted By: Ken McMillan

my wife has 300 to 400 Sarah Burnhardt postcards from the turn oe the century. She even found 2 cards at the national.

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Posted By: Larry

Ken, I understand there will be a lock of Sarah Bernhardt's hair going up for sale soon that originates from her manager's estate auction back in the 1930s. It was in a list of sale items one of my favorite eBay sellers emailed me a while back. Let me know if you want their email address and I'll forward it to you.

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Posted By: Jerry Spillman

Here's a couple of old tin windups:

Lehmann Windup - 1907

Toonerville Trolley - 1922

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Posted By: anthony

Here are 2 of my favorites. I generally collect 1 to several items of the times in history that are most interesting to me. Some of my most prized are:

1. Benjamin Franklin printed newspaper 1749 (below)
2. Ushabti statue 1500 b.c. (below)
3. 1863 Springfield musket
4. Paul Revere printed Colonial Currency 1779 (very rare)
5. Draft notice from Civil War
6. Brown Bess Revolutionary War Bayonet

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Posted By: Jerry Hrechka

In addition to WW2 era Non Sports card collecting my other collecting area is War Comics - Here's one:

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Posted By: Ken McMillan

Larry,

that's pretty wild about the hair. My wife sometimes thinks she is Sarah reincarnated. I will tell her about it. Wonder if there is any way to authenticate it.

Ken

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Posted By: Larry

Ken, not sure how to authenticate such a thing? Perhaps through DNA somehow? Since it is supposed to have originated from the largest collection of famous people's hair ever, that would bode well for it along with a certificate signed by the man who bought it in the 1930s. Something else I find interesting is that Upper Deck appears to be buying up all of the locks of hair from the few major collections that exist. They have already produced a number of insert cards and some are on eBay right now (Allen & Ginter 1 of 1 hair insert cards) going for ridiculous sums of money....Washington, Lincoln etc.

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Posted By: jay behrens

Ken, does she have any of the cabinet cards? I used to have one of her. I think is was a Newsboy. Can't remember though, It's been over 20 years since I had it.

Jay

The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.

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Posted By: Leslie Westbrook

...NASA and any pre-1970 space-flight memorabilia, Russian or American.

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Posted By: jay behrens

Got any Major Matson toys? I remember playing them as a kid. They were the coolest astronaut toys of the 60s.

Jay

The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.

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Posted By: Ken McMillan

Jay,

Her main focus is postcards. I believe she may have some cabinet cards, but not certain. She is really into it however.

Ken

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Posted By: Jerry

Jay, your right Magor Matt Mason was a cool line of toys. A little late for my childhood but have bought and sold quite a few pieces over the years. If I remeber right he had a couple other sidekicks, a Lady Astronaut and a Villian. Had some cool vehicles and playsets also. Another late 60's toy line that was cool was Captain Action. He had alot of Outfits you could buy for him. Green Hornet, Lone Ranger, Tonto, Superman, Robin, Batman, Steve canyon etc. He had a villian also.

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Posted By: jay behrens

CA is very popular. There is a villain and an alien. The alien is insanely rare and expensive.

As a kid, I had Major Matt Mason, a GI Joe and Ken. Ken got his ass kicked routinely.

Jay

The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.