do folks here collect other stuff?

[thedutymon]

Morning,

As well as collecting Non Sports Cards, I also collect Ex-Wifes....Actually usually let them go, with a 25 ft. head start , Comic Books, First Edition Hardbacks and Rare 19th & 20th century Science Fiction Hardbacks and Paperbacks. Dabble in lots of other stuff WW II Books, have hundreds and hundreds, other stuff!!

YeeHah !!!

Neil

[timzcardz]

I collect calories. Does that count?

It's a side effect of a passion for cooking and competition BBQ. The competiton BBQ stuff takes up any hobby dollars the cards and memorabilia don't.

So it's pretty much just cards and memorabilia for me.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by thedutymon

Morning,

As well as collecting Non Sports Cards, I also collect Ex-Wifes....Actually usually let them go, with a 25 ft. head start , Comic Books, First Edition Hardbacks and Rare 19th & 20th century Science Fiction Hardbacks and Paperbacks. Dabble in lots of other stuff WW II Books, have hundreds and hundreds, other stuff!!

YeeHah !!!

Neil

Collecting ex-wives sounds expensive Neil. I hope you and your son can make the dinner again this year at the National.

As for collecting other things.....well, besides cards I collect lots of tobacciana surrounding the cards, wrappers and boxes and etc... surrounding the cards, and last but not least Type 1 photos used to make cards.

[bn2cardz]

I collect:

Top Tier of collecting (On the same level as sports cards):
Batman anything

2nd tier of collecting
Movie Posters
Comics
Some Superman

3rd Tier of collecting
Non sport trade cards
Kids Meal toys
Vinyl Records
Pez Dispensers

I also have tendency to hoard anything that I believe has an interesting tid bit about it.

[skooter]

Silver dollars produced at the New Orleans Mint.

[steve B]

Race used bicycles plus a few other special ones.
1986 US national team team pursuit


Stamps, especially the official mail stamps from the 1870's particularly ones showing defects in the printing plates.
1875 special printing foreign entry of 6c executive on 6c State dept. position 11 One of probably 4-5 sold.


1875 special printing 2c State with double transfer at the bottom. One of 51-52 sold. (On the left, the right one is normal 5,145 sold.)



Plus a bunch of other stuff, but far less seriously.

Steve B

[thedutymon]

Originally Posted by Leon

Collecting ex-wives sounds expensive Neil. I hope you and your son can make the dinner again this year at the National.

Hey Leon,

Thanks for the invite, had planned to be there this year but financially just can't swing it. Like everybody else have not had a raise in 4 years now and my Health care costs have gone up in the last 5 years of 10%, 13%, 30%, 17%, and this year 29%. With HC costs factored in I am now taking home less money then I did when I was in my 20's, am now 55 and am realizing my dreams of retirement are probably not going to happen!!

I make three times what my father did as an Attorney, and I barely make it by, much less security than he ever had.

I have been selling off collectibles for the last 3-5 years to maintain our life and have had to have the internal discussion too many times now of how much do I really want this !!!

Neil

Originally Posted by thedutymon

Hey Leon,

Thanks for the invite, had planned to be there this year but financially just can't swing it. Like everybody else have not had a raise in 4 years now and my Health care costs have gone up in the last 5 years of 10%, 13%, 30%, 17%, and this year 29%. With HC costs factored in I am now taking home less money then I did when I was in my 20's, am now 55 and am realizing my dreams of retirement are probably not going to happen!!

I make three times what my father did as an Attorney, and I barely make it by, much less security than he ever had.

I have been selling off collectibles for the last 3-5 years to maintain our life and have had to have the internal discussion too many times now of how much do I really want this !!!

Neil

Hello Neil,

Sorry to hear you won't be at the National as I would have liked to meet you finally. Hopefully, things will turn around for everyone soon and we'll all go have a beer.

As far as the OP's question, I really don't collect anything but unopened baseball packs these days. Don't have enough disposable money to afford to collect anything else.

[benderbroeth]

Originally Posted by thedutymon

Morning,

As well as collecting Non Sports Cards, I also collect Ex-Wifes....Actually usually let them go, with a 25 ft. head start , Comic Books, First Edition Hardbacks and Rare 19th & 20th century Science Fiction Hardbacks and Paperbacks. Dabble in lots of other stuff WW II Books, have hundreds and hundreds, other stuff!!

YeeHah !!!

Neil

hey neil, what is your faveorite of the old science fiction books?

[benderbroeth]

i collect anything related to Theodore Roosevelt!!! and books mostly recent signed fantasy and science fiction

[thedutymon]

Originally Posted by benderbroeth

hey neil, what is your faveorite of the old science fiction books?

Morning,

I would guess my Favorite's are copies of Edgar Rice Burroughs 1st Print Paperbacks from the 1920's/30's. Although I have some of the same books in the Original Hardbacks from 1909 to late 1930's, three with original Dust Jackets (1920 The Land That Time Forgot Value $3000.00 and 1916 The Lost Continent (originally Beyond Thirty) Value $2000, and 1914 The Eternal Savage (Originally The Eternal Lover), A Tarzan Book, Value $3000)

I have always loved the Burroughs books because they bring back memories of my Father taking me to the local Book Store when I was 8 to 12 and buying me handfulls of the Ace editions of these books. I read voraciouisly and could knock down 10-12 books a week, in fact still do.

I am also very Partial to Robert Heinlein 1st Print Paperbacks from the 40's-early 60's, same reason, I lived for the Next Heinlein Book as an adolescent as he opened the World to me not just about Sci-Fi but about People as I think to this day his characters are some of the most well developed in all of Sci-Fi history.

One of my Dream aquisitions would be a High Grade 1914 First Edition copy of Tarzan of the Apes with Dust Jacket. But then again that will never happen as I don't have $25-50K that it would take. The only reason I have the three very valuable Hardbacks of his was just dumb luck twice. One time I was selling comics at a show in Denver, a very big Collectibles show, in down time I walked around checking out other stuff and found two at a table from some guys aunts house estate sale, he didn't know what he had, and I wasn't telling him, got them both for $50 bucks. The third I found on E-bay for $175.00, had it appraised for Insurance at $3000-$5000.

Neil

[tachyonbb]

Does it count that things you bought when young to use are now considered to be collectible. Didn't set out to have them as a collection. Acquired my uncle's set of wood planes, originally from our great grandfather who brought them from Germany. He knew I built furniture for fun and gave them to me when he retired. Used them for years when making various moldings. Now they have more value as a collectors item. Who knew that corn shuckers, grain grinders and manure spreaders would become collectible.

In the 50's I built model cars and collected baseball cards. Mom threw the baseball cards away but the 100's of old model cars (honestly I am going to build them someday) still sit in the storage room. 100's of car magazines from the 1950's.

[sdkammeyer]

Is anyone into comic books? Or let me refrain that is anyone looking for some comic books??

I tried to find a passion for them back in the late 80's but it never caught on. I ended up buying them and putting them straight into bags w/ boards the second I purchased them and they have been sitting ever since. They have never even had the covers turned.

if anyone is interested, shoot me a p.m.

I dont think i have anything of tremendous value .... but the conditions are perfect.


Those hats are really stylish Scott.... I like 'em.