I Don't Like To Talk About What Else I Collect

[z28jd]

Almost everyone who comes here collects cards(except for Barry Goat and that cycleback guy). So you come here willing to talk about what you collect. End of obviousness(it's really a word). In the Old Judge survival thread, we talked about how many people don't even visit this board, yet have huge collections and some people refuse to use this intraweb thingy.

So the question is, do you collect anything else that is a common collectible, yet you don't visit any forum about it to yap with other people who collect the same thing.

My two examples, a modest coin collection that I occasionally add to and antique cars. I have two vehicles and have had around ten others at some point in the past. I don't search out forums for either, even though I spend way too much time on the computer, and I come here to visit on the average, at least 3-4 times a day.

I figure if people collect other things and don't talk about it, despite talking about old cardboard frequently, there are plenty of others who do the opposite, boring people with their coin talk, while keeping their pictures of dead baseball players fetish to themselves.

[drc]

I suspect most collectors collect different things, if some only on the side.

I once had a big fashion photograph collection (ala Vogue magazine original photos), but sold off all my photos. I'm sure if I became an active collecter again, I go back to collecting those. I was am unaware of a forum for that subject.

I know of a Net54 board member who collects antique pool cues. Interesting there is a pool cue collecting forum on the internet.

[ullmandds]

I have been a collector my whole life...mostly baseball stuff...the last 15 or so years japanese/american/korean pottery...as well as various forms of art of which I follow on the internet but do not frequent any message boards.

As I get older though...my collecting nature is giving way to a cleaner...less cluttered home...and the mindset that "objects" just aren't that important to me...as I slowly downsize!!!!!

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

I have been a collector my whole life...mostly baseball stuff...the last 15 or so years japanese/american/korean pottery.

Nice!! My mom is a Japanese American potter.. I collect more of her stuff every year at Christmas.

As for me, I accumulate other baseball related stuff- significant newspapers (as they've happened), random fan giveaway items, all my stubs, autographs, have an old glove, etc.. Nothing really worth talking about though. I also have a collection of 20-30 unopened Star Wars figures that I got when I was about 12. I haven't added to that stash in about 20 years, and 40 Year Old Virgin didn't give incentive to bring this up in conversation, EVER, so I don't talk about them either.

[slidekellyslide]

I collect postcards and don't frequent any forums for them...I'm not even sure a forum exists for postcards that is anywhere on par with Net54 in membership and activity.

[ullmandds]

really Ian...what's her name?!?! Does she sell her work at any galleries?

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

really Ian...what's her name?!?! Does she sell her work at any galleries?

Her name is Pat Oyama. She studied art/ceramics in Alfred, NY, then apprenticed in Japan through her 20's. She used to do mainly traditional stuff- Japanese style bowls, plates, tea cups/kettles, but has evolved over time and now does a lot of funky slab work and masks. I don't think she sells through any galleries outside CA, but does sell at a handful in the SF Bay Area, as well as at some of the area art shows. She's definitely one of those who has not yet grasped the "intraweb" thing, so she doesn't have a web page or anything. It makes me happy anytime I hear someone is interested in that type of pottery though.

To add: I'm traveling on the East Coast this week, but I will have to send you some pics of her stuff when I get home next week

[Craig M]

As you can see (dead baseball players) are alive and well!!!

...and that's what I love about the baseball men of the past; it's as if they did not pass because we are keeping their memory with us daily.

This will always be.

Craig

[timzcardz]

I am a very accomplished collector of calories, although I have disposed of about 200,000 of them over the last 7 months.


Actually if I were collecting things other than cards and memorabilia, I strongly suspect that my wife would not be as understanding as she is.

[drc]

I have a well to do and culturally elitist neighbor who collects Pre-1800 British silver and historical autographs. He sometimes asks me about baseball autographs, in particular Jackie Robinson. For all I know, he has some baseball stuff stashed away.

For an example of his elitism, he's from the East Coast likes classical music but refuses to attend the Seattle Symphony because it's not like the New York Philharmonic or the Chicago Symphony. I'm like "You live in Seattle."

[Piratedogcardshows]

I collect Silver Age Spiderman comics because they are classic reads.Also my son is a comic book nut and it gives us something to bond over as well as something for me to look for at the various ComicCons I take him too.I have explored a few forums looking for new places to pick us up books besides Ebay.Going on those forums makes you appreciate the professionalism and maturity of the Net54 forum and members.

[milkit1]

I'm currently writing a pilot for a series I'm calling "that cycleback guy". I have the title, the character (and what a character! ) and the character s dog down but that's it. Still I'm quite excited with this project! I'm seeing a sort of hart to hart meets frasier meets downton abbey!

[Paul S]

Yeah, I collect comic books that my father moonlighted circa 1946-1956. I used to haunt some comic forums but never posted. However, I started my own blog dedicated to his work in the animation industry in general, and got lots of 'alive' cartoonists/animators, (as opposed to dead ones, or fetishy dead ballplayers), and people who are just darn interested like us non-ballplayers, contact me personally, many of whom have help me indentify my dad's comic book style from that era. Some of them have become good friends, and many are very interested in my own accounts, as told to and observed by me, of what that career life had been like in his era, similar to the way we are in interested in vintage.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Paul S

Yeah, I collect comic books that my father moonlighted circa 1946-1956. I used to haunt some comic forums but never posted. However, I started my own blog dedicated to his work in the animation industry in general, and got lots of 'alive' cartoonists/animators, (as opposed to dead ones, or fetishy dead ballplayers), and people who are just darn interested like us non-ballplayers, contact me personally, many of whom have help me indentify my dad's comic book style from that era. Some of them have become good friends, and many are very interested in my own accounts, as told to and observed by me, of what that career life had been like in his era, similar to the way we are in interested in vintage.

What was his name?

[steve B]

I collect lots of stuff, but aside from here and a couple bicycle mailing lists that I've become less active on I haven't done much online.

When I submitted a stamp article about a particularly special stamp I'd found to the journal of a club I'm in the editors were really puzzled. Apparently people who aren't well known by most experts and are still collecting don't write articles.

Steve B

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

What was his name?

Irv Spector. I have a blog dedicated to his stuff, although I've neglected it for quite awhile: http://irvspector.blogspot.com/ If you search the blog under Muggy Doo you can pop up some of the comics.

Also, you might get a kick out of (search for and scroll down) Abner the Baseball, an animated cartoon that was Paramount's entry for a Best Animated Film Oscar (didn't make the nominee final list) but you get Mantle, Berra, et al.

But really, he was an animator and in the decade I cited there were a lot of animators in the NY Army Signal Corp that moonlighted and went on to do it as extra cash. Timely/Atlas, and then some other smaller publishers. He started his animation career in 1930 and you can see some of his early work in B&W Fleisher, like Popeyes and stuff. Every year you can still see his additional story writing credit in 1966's How The Grinch Stole Christmas. I dunno, dig deep instead of me explaining everything -- that's what the blog is for. (my bad)! The only reason I mention animation is that I collect that too LOL

[deadballfreaK]

I will be on "Hoarders" one of these days. I've dabbled in collected everything. Baseball, football, hockey, a few non sport cards, autographs, comics, etc. UGH!
I sometimes dabble in cars. Restored a 64 1/2 Mustang and sold it. There's a 55 Chevy 2 door coupe in my garage that is partly finished. I recently bought a 1990 Buick Reatta which I'm driving and hope to work on this summer.

[Tao_Moko]

I collect fossils and hope to someday do a little discovering with my son when he get's older. Particularly interested in Hominin fossils but limited to replicas for obvious reasons. I also have a lifelong love for early tattoo memorabilia and Marine Corps rarities. I spent most of my adult life in the Marines so I collected some of my favorite vintage pieces on the flesh. Both arms , chest and stomach are all vintage Marine images like you'd see on a WWII vet.

I do not participate in any other forums.

By the way - are we all geeks?