Show your Americana / Non-Sports Memorabilia

[base_ball]

This mechanical bank, known as "Tammany Bank" is a cast iron representation of the infamous corrupt New York City pol Boss Tweed. He takes your money, puts it in his pocket, and nods his head in "thanks."

[slidekellyslide]

Steve, my grandpa was a crew member on a B-29 Superfortress. 29th Bomber Group, 6th Squadron.

[FUBAR]

Beautiful items... its like the Antiques roadshow Net54 style!

[GrayGhost]

Yeah, but this stuff isnt rigged, like a lot of that show is.

[theantiquetiger]

I buy and sell as a hobby to fund my LSU collecting.

I made an easy $700+ this week off a near mint 1930's Lionel train set and a couple late 1800's fly fishing reels.

I paid $400 for the train set and $10 for the reels.

The reels sold for $80 and the train for $1100!!!

Here is the only picture I have left from the set(deleted them as I listed them):



People ask me all the time how do I know what to buy at these estate sales. All I can tell them is that I don't know what to buy, but I know what to risk my money on. I have made 10's of 1000's of dollars over the last 10 years are so.

(keeps the wife from complaining when I spend $1000 on one LSU item )

here is my ebay page if you want to see the rest of the train (completed items, so you need to be logged in):

Theantiquetiger eBay page

[GrayGhost]

Do you pay your taxes sir, either via Schedule C for Business Income or if a hobby, via Schedule D for Capital Gains? Lets be above board..haha.

those trains are awesome. that stuff is cool, estate sales/auctions, etc. Right place/right time adn w money too.

[canjond]

Originally Posted by GrayGhost

Do you pay your taxes sir, either via Schedule C for Business Income or if a hobby, via Schedule D for Capital Gains? Lets be above board..haha.

those trains are awesome. that stuff is cool, estate sales/auctions, etc. Right place/right time adn w money too.

I've registered my eBay ID as a 503(c) not-for-profit because any my sales are used to fund more purchases

[TheBig6]

What time is it kids?

[thekingofclout]

Original TYPE I Photograph. Date Stamp Oct. 12, 1969 and Caption on the Back.

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And a pair of signed cuts. Half way there.

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[Ladder7]

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." Admiral Yamamoto IJN

May 8, 1941

[IronHorse2130]

Two Superman comics published during WW2.

[ramram]

Other than early baseball, my big collecting passion is historically interesting diaries. I started with Civil War diaries and then moved into many other areas including; WWI and WWII soldiers, naval men and aviator diaries (including those from other countries), Oregon Trail diaries and other historically interesting ones including a hippie from 1967 who hitch hiked to San Fransisco and hung out at Haight/Ashbury during the "Summer of Love".

Seeing some of the great military items, in particular the B-29 material, got me looking through my diaries. Below is an entry from a B-29 radio operator writing about the great/terrible low altitude incendiary bombing raid of Tokyo. He even claims (and several others from this raid said the same thing) that they "could smell Jap flesh burning at 7,000 feet". Because of the tremendous fires and the low level at which they were bombing, the turbulence threw them all over the place when they released their bombs. Parts of the planes came off and the men were thrown all over the plane.

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[Exhibitman]

I collect Academy Awards tickets and related memorabilia. Here is a collage of some tickets and a few close-ups:

[milkit1]

Great Lennon pictures. Sad knowing he would be dead in a few hours. John didn't die from stupidity like Hendrix and joplin and so many other rocker stars. Those pictures really show how alive and ready to work he was.
Nice academy tix. I got to pick up tix for a producer one time and it was really cool hearing who the other people in line were picking up for. The person in front of me was getting Owen wilsons ticket for example

[BBSD]

Original proposed drawing of the Golden Gate Bride. Thank goodness they decided to tweak the design.