Do You Collect Anything Other Than Pipes and Tobacco?

[briarblues]

I used to collect ex - wives, but ended that collection at 3. Now other than Castello's I collect wrist watches.
Michael J. Glukler

 

[andrew]

Straight razors and sharpening stones, beautiful razor Duane, all the old razors shave better because they used better metal back then is what I've heard

 

[deathmetal]

Classic death metal discs, mostly. But there are some great collections in this thread.

 

[okiebrad]

Books and pre civil war postal history.

 

[warren]

Neuroses! Are you neurotic about your collection of neuroses?

 

[sablebrush52]

Hi Mike,
Nice to see you back!
Way too many LP's and ditto amount of CD's, mostly classical, some jazz, some very hard to find limited pressings. I've also collected signed 1st editions of Science Fiction, and a small mountain of books on various topics. Also way too many DVD's and blu-rays of films ranging from late 19th century to contemporary, a lot of material sent free as screeners.
Much of this crap I'll be disposing of in the next few years. I'm at that point where I want less, not more.

 

[condorlover1]

Aeroplane Sick Bags and copies of the Karma Sutra for Dyslexics! Outside of 'cutty' pipes I cannot think of anything that I am whole heartedly devoted to collecting.

 

[bigpond]

Bigpond, Reno has such a place and they have had great success and are great for the community. Perhaps you could reach out to them and see how they've navigated through the 501c3 process and the rest.

Cool. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[wy2w]

I collect old HeathKit stuff. Brings back a lot of fond memories from when I was a kid. Ah, the smell of solder and rosin, and don't forget the lead. I think that's why my brain doesn't work quite right now...
I love old pocket watches too, but I'm on a Timex budget and I can't even afford one of those. So, that's why I don't have any pocket watches. Love the engineering, and craftsmanship, though. A true artwork! Sure would like to have a Hamilton, six position!

 

[jvnshr]

And if you get the URL of the image, not the thumbnail, you get:

I actually used the URL of the image, looks like fluffie666 edited it again and used the URL of the thumbnail Corrected now.

 

[davet]

I collect scale model trains and have a small collect of railroad artifacts.

Pictures ! :mrgreen:
I've collected some HO scale mainly Union Pacific with some nice vintage pieces.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Here we go, as threatened yesterday here are a couple of pics from my collection.
First up is Dr. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, first published in 1755 in two huge folio volumes. A new first edition would set you back £25,000+. This however is a facsimile edition that cost considerably less. Said to be the first 'proper' English Dictionary (there were several others) this and its many reprints was the dictionary of choice before the OED appeared.

The OED (Oxford English Dictionary) actually started life as the New English Dictionary and was nearly 70 years in the making. It was issued in fascicles on a very irregular basis and if you bought the first fascicle (A - Ant 1884) on your 20th birthday you would get the last fascicle (Wise - the end of W 1928) (it was not completed alphabetically) when you were 64!
The completed dictionary is made up of 12 volumes (plus supplement in 1933) and contains 15,487 pages, defining 414,825 words.
These tomes are absolutely huge leather bound affairs and I suspect weigh more than I do!

My other hobby is micro minerals. These are tiny and require the use of a decent stereo zoom microscope to view them properly. The images below were taken with specialist equipment and all are roughly 4mm across. I use photo stacking software so each image is made up of many individual shots to get the correct depth of field. If I recall the Scholzite was no fewer than 129 photos stacked into one image....never again!
Chalcopyrite crystals...

Grossular Garnets...

Tufts of Gypsum crystals.....

Holmbushite first discovered in Cornwall.....

Linarite crystals....

Needles of Malachite from Australia.....

Scholzite also from Australia....

Wavellite 'suns'....

Another form of Wavellite...

If you're still awake, thanks for looking ::
Regards,
Jay.

 

[wy2w]

Wow, Jay - That's very impressive!

 

[lestrout]

Yo Jay - wow is right! Beautiful and impressive, both the (micro)minerals themselves and the skill/artistry in executing the photography. I scrolled back and forth several times to admire the pix.
hp

les

 

[davet]

Fascinating pics, Jay :clap:

 

[instymp]

cool Jay!

 

[nevadablue]

Very nice stuff guys! Some of my favorite things, books, mineral specimens, trains! I haven't found my carbide lamp collection yet, still unpacking... probably for months, sigh. But, I did find a little building. I make them for my train layouts. This one started as a 'kit' (paper model that you print out) and was heavily modified.

 

[foggymountain]

Starting a small cigar collection.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"Starting a small cigar collection."
Sounds like a good idea, you can enjoy them in your dotage when you get to smoke them ::
Regards,
Jay.

 

[wy2w]

@nevadablue - When I first looked at the model I thought, that is a nice looking piece, then I saw the dime! Holy crap! That's some fine work! Good Job!