Showing your collections/room off to others

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by jakebeckleyoldeagleeye

I show mine every now and then. I have a loud mouth dog, security system, neighbors around and a handy snub nose .38 and 1911 Colt 45 among other fire arms so if one want's to chance it so be it.

Excellent setup to protect your collection, but as the perps get more sophisticated and sometimes wear body armor, perhaps you need a slightly higher caliber to make sure the job gets done when you are defending your T206 Plank. How about a 50 cal Barrett?

[Brick442]

Lots of great insight here! Since I started the thread, here is an older pic of my baseball room pre-furniture (the opposite wall is also full of balls).

Like I said, I am weary of telling adults I don't know about it, but my sons love to look at 'their' collection from time-to-time, and I did let the travel ball team I coach in for a look (they really only enjoyed the 2000-up section).

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by Brick442

Lots of great insight here! Since I started the thread, here is an older pic of my baseball room pre-furniture (the opposite wall is also full of balls).

Like I said, I am weary of telling adults I don't know about it, but my sons love to look at 'their' collection from time-to-time, and I did let the travel ball team I coach in for a look (they really only enjoyed the 2000-up section).

Do you have a Bob Uecker autographed ball to go with the Major League movie poster?

[philliesfan]

A friend of mine who is also a member here, but does not post much does not have a card / memorabilia room.......he has a memorabilia HOUSE! Every room in his home has collectibles from floor to ceiling. Just an unbelievable collection.
Hopefully he will see this thread and chime in with his collection. I think he should start charging admission to anyone who enters is house.
Bob

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by philliesfan

A friend of mine who is also a member here, but does not post much does not have a card / memorabilia room.......he has a memorabilia HOUSE! Every room in his home has collectibles from floor to ceiling. Just an unbelievable collection.

I know a locomotive engineer who also owns the house next door to his own which he uses to store his monster items collection!

[jakebeckleyoldeagleeye]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Excellent setup to protect your collection, but as the perps get more sophisticated and sometimes wear body armor, perhaps you need a slightly higher caliber to make sure the job gets done when you are defending your T206 Plank. How about a 50 cal Barrett?

Well I also have a pistol grip Mossberg shotgun so I think when they hear the cocking sound it's a nice let me think about this moment smart guy.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by jakebeckleyoldeagleeye

Well I also have a pistol grip Mossberg shotgun so I think when they hear the cocking sound it's a nice let me think about this moment smart guy.

It is more of a think about it moment when you have a gun pointed at their head and they say "MFer please" and you can see in their eyes they actually mean it. Trust me it is a whole different story from talking a big game and having it happen at 3:08 on a Saturday morning.

[jingram058]

It's all well and good to have weapons. Odds are, though, no one is coming to get your stuff while you're sitting back locked and loaded. They're coming when you're gone, and the neighbors aren't looking. What then?

[G1911]

Originally Posted by jingram058

It's all well and good to have weapons. Odds are, though, no one is coming to get your stuff while you're sitting back locked and loaded. They're coming when you're gone, and the neighbors aren't looking. What then?

That’s why my collection is stored in quality safes (well, except the bulk junk!). It can happen though, I’ve had a home invasion while I was there and it’s no fun. Better to be prepared for the unlikelihood, and never need it than the opposite.

[z28jd]

I once showed my cousins some T206 cards and Old Judge cards during a family dinner about 15 years ago and one of them said "Do you have any Babe Ruth cards?". I do not, which led to everyone looking disappointed and not caring anymore about the old cards.

My cousin married a former baseball player and before the next family dinner I bought all six of his cards. Total spent was about $50 because I had to buy team sets for all of them. Those cards was significantly more popular than any pre-war card I owned at the time.

No one has asked to see any cards since.

My neighbor from about ten years ago knew Rey Palacios when he was young. He went to the fire station my neighbor worked at a lot. A 1989 card of Palacios was more popular than anything else I had to him.

Basically, unless people collect old cards or just love old baseball history, they don't care.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by z28jd

I once showed my cousins some T206 cards and Old Judge cards during a family dinner about 15 years ago and one of them said "Do you have any Babe Ruth cards?". I do not, which led to everyone looking disappointed and not caring anymore about the old cards.

My cousin married a former baseball player and before the next family dinner I bought all six of his cards. Total spent was about $50 because I had to buy team sets for all of them. Those cards was significantly more popular than any pre-war card I owned at the time.

No one has asked to see any cards since.

My neighbor from about ten years ago knew Rey Palacios when he was young. He went to the fire station my neighbor worked at a lot. A 1989 card of Palacios was more popular than anything else I had to him.

Basically, unless people collect old cards or just love old baseball history, they don't care.

Is that really any different from any other type of collection people have? If you have no knowledge or interest in something, how much time would you really want to spend looking at it or hearing someone else talk about it? There was a thread about what else people collect, and while many of the pictures shown were impressive collections, there weren't too many that personally would have interested me enough to want to spend a lot of time hearing about them.

[ALBB]

Originally Posted by jingram058

It's all well and good to have weapons. Odds are, though, no one is coming to get your stuff while you're sitting back locked and loaded. They're coming when you're gone, and the neighbors aren't looking. What then?

Yea, but it sounds so much more macho the other way LOL

[Belfast1933]

I must be an outlier here as I display my collection broadly and bring friends and guests in all the time (insured, camera, smart locks on the house)

It’s a personal thing but I love telling the backstories to King Kelly, how cards were used to sell cigarettes, why the high number 52 Topps are crazy expensive, etc.

I find the biggest kick people get is when I show them the “Gross” section of my PC (my last name, and an easy to use pun at the same time). That has my son and daughter’s little league photos and batting helmets, my nieces and nephews with their cards and the 6 major league players with last name “Gross” who have Topps cards - all on one “Gross shelf” (last photo below)

As many have said here, the whole thing is just fun for me especially to be able to share it.

You do you, as the kids say… and for me, this is to fun to keep locked away.