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Old 01-14-2013, 08:41 PM
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Since 1995 , I collect Magic The Gathering ALpha Beta cards. Like that
Now those are some nice cards! I have one, but only in unlimited.

For those who aren't into them, that's The J Jackson, Ruth, Wagner, Plank, etc for the magic card crowd.
Not moneywise, but certainly in impact.
I had another of the big ones in Unlimited,(The Black Lotus) and the two tournaments I played it caused quite a stir when I played it. Of course, I lost every single game I played for almost 2 years until I traded it away.......Yes, the card was the star.

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Old 01-14-2013, 08:53 PM
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Old 01-14-2013, 09:11 PM
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Postcards focused on Lincoln, Nebraska. I have probably 700-800 different. It fulfills my "need" to collect since the stuff I really love (Lincoln minor league and Nebraska Indians) shows up so seldom anymore that I get bored. I also sideline into Disneyland and Disney World postcards...you'd be surprised how many different postcards there are of those two parks.
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Old 01-14-2013, 09:49 PM
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I collect Native American artifacts. By "collect" I mean that I walk the fields and river banks looking for them.

Using any type of flint they could fashion, sometimes you find a flint artifact that has been made from a certain type of flint and can be traced to the exact area where the flint was harvested by the Native Americans.

I enjoy it because you never know what you're going to find. I've found things like old coins, musket balls and even a prehistoric horse tooth.


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Old 01-14-2013, 10:15 PM
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Love seeing what ya'll collect =)

As the name indicates, I am a (ball) python factory. Ball pythons are great because a) they are docile b) have dozens of genes that completely change their appearance and c) are big enough to be cool (3-4ft, 1-3lbs) but not scary big. I have a dedicated snake room in my house that is kept at 80F with 60% humidity year round (my wife is the best). It is a fairly small operation: I have two breedable males, six or so breedable females, and about ten sub-adults/hatchlings. I keep them in the Cadillac of snake habitats: ARS caging (see attached picture). I hook up a proportional thermostat (e.g., if my goal is 90F and I'm at 89F, it will only give 10% power) to the snake rack which has flexwatt heat panels to distribute heat. I've attached two pictures: one is a Pastel - Black Pastel - Ghost and the other is a Pastel - Spider - Ghost.
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Old 01-14-2013, 10:39 PM
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I collect baseball autographs. I have 3 different items going on at the same time. I am trying to get complete sets autographed. I have about 150 signed cards from the 1969 topps set(my birth year). The set is complete, just trying to get as many signed as possible. The topps 1976 set is another one that I am working on and have over 200 of those cards signed. The 3rd item I have been getting signed since I picked it up in 1990. It is the Topps 40 years of baseball book. It shows every card from 1951-1990 and is great for getting autographs in. I crossed over 600 signatures in it this summer and love getting the no name players of the 60's 70's and 80's to sign the book.
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Old 01-14-2013, 10:58 PM
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One of my other passions is fishing here in New England. I have a collection of FISH ART. Here are a few examples.


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Love seeing what ya'll collect =)

As the name indicates, I am a (ball) python factory. Ball pythons are great because a) they are docile b) have dozens of genes that completely change their appearance and c) are big enough to be cool (3-4ft, 1-3lbs) but not scary big. I have a dedicated snake room in my house that is kept at 80F with 60% humidity year round (my wife is the best). It is a fairly small operation: I have two breedable males, six or so breedable females, and about ten sub-adults/hatchlings. I keep them in the Cadillac of snake habitats: ARS caging (see attached picture). I hook up a proportional thermostat (e.g., if my goal is 90F and I'm at 89F, it will only give 10% power) to the snake rack which has flexwatt heat panels to distribute heat. I've attached two pictures: one is a Pastel - Black Pastel - Ghost and the other is a Pastel - Spider - Ghost.
Love the pythons. I used to have many of them. Just stay away from Retics......they are mean, mean, mean. I used to volunteer at the Houston Zoo reptile dept when I was a kid. It was a lot of fun feeding all of the snakes, turtles etc......
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Old 01-16-2013, 10:08 AM
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Golf balls from vacation places or courses I have played/visited. Pebble Beach is the latest, however all I did was hit some around on the putting green. My family didn't want me to spend $600 and an entire day there while on vacation .

I've been doing that since my early teens. I now probably have 700-800 in total as my dad would tell all his golf buddies I likes logo balls and he would get all of them. I bet when I go back home this weekend he'll have 4 or 5 sitting there for me.

The only ones that get displayed are the top 50 that are most meaningful/memorable.

I also love trying new craft beers where-ever I go.

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Old 01-14-2013, 10:05 PM
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Very cool, I see plenty of others with interest in coins. I actually collected coins before baseball cards at a very young age but coins are now a very distant 2nd to Detroit cardboard. With coins I have a narrow focus. I only collect coins from 1887 (in honor of the Detroit Wolverines Championship and the Old Judge set which was then in full swing). I prefer business strikes over proofs and prefer NGC holders although I do not like the new NGC holders. So I'm still searching for a higher grade 3 cent piece and quarter graded in an older NGC holder as well as a business strike half. At least I was able to knock out all the gold before it skyrocketed. 1887 is one of the tougher years with six of the thirteen denominations having 10,000 or less minted (that's fairly rare in the world of coins).

I always thought 1909 would be a fun year to collect as well. 1909 was the last year of Indian Head, first year of Lincoln (including the 1909 S VDB). But I'll leave 1909 to someone who is into T206.
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Old 01-14-2013, 11:12 PM
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Very cool, I see plenty of others with interest in coins. I actually collected coins before baseball cards at a very young age but coins are now a very distant 2nd to Detroit cardboard. With coins I have a narrow focus. I only collect coins from 1887 (in honor of the Detroit Wolverines Championship and the Old Judge set which was then in full swing). I prefer business strikes over proofs and prefer NGC holders although I do not like the new NGC holders. So I'm still searching for a higher grade 3 cent piece and quarter graded in an older NGC holder as well as a business strike half. At least I was able to knock out all the gold before it skyrocketed. 1887 is one of the tougher years with six of the thirteen denominations having 10,000 or less minted (that's fairly rare in the world of coins).

I always thought 1909 would be a fun year to collect as well. 1909 was the last year of Indian Head, first year of Lincoln (including the 1909 S VDB). But I'll leave 1909 to someone who is into T206.
Nice collection Joe. I totally agree with you about the new NGC holders, I don't like them either. My collecting interests are U.S. Half Dimes. Funny you mention the 1909 set for T206 collectors, I have been thinking about a 1909-1911 coin set to display with my cards.
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When I was in elementary school I was a huge dork (still am) and I put together a set of the Star Wars figures and left them in their boxes. I would do chores on Saturday and when I was done, my parents would take me to Toys R' Us and let me get a figure ($5 worth each visit). They were great parents, and I have really nice memories from this. I also eventually picked up some of the figures from the 70's, and I also had a few old Marvel and DC comics too. I think I always liked older things as opposed to modern.

I also collect albums and have a lot of the Beatles and Rolling Stones (almost all of the Beatles full length albums, but not quite).

Also, Salvador Dail lithographs ... my Dad has Manhattan Skyline, Loves Promise, The Bull Fighter, and La Grande Pavon. Some of his work is absolutely trippy.
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When I was in elementary school I was a huge dork (still am) and I put together a set of the Star Wars figures and left them in their boxes...

Nice!... similarly, I had a sweet Star Wars collection as a kid, but they all got thrown out during a move when I was about 9. In a quest to reconnect with my distant childhood past (I was 12 or 13), I found a guy that sold unopened figures at the Santa Cruz flea market. I went back 2-3 times and picked up a couple dozen for btwn $4-$10 each. Still have them and a Jabba the Hut playset stuffed in a box in storage... with my even dorkier old school, but working Atari stand up arcade machine.

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Hotwheels older than me...'68-'72

beautiful salmon-pink 321P!!!!! my wife collects bugs and has an incredible non-enamel blue no-sunroof custom vw.......

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Nice cars....I have em too..though my collection is sort of dormant at the moment... 68-73 including some prototypes.....





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