Thread: Collections

What do you collect?


I collect keychains/rings. The more unique, the better. I had a nice collection a few years ago which got lost when I did a lot of moving around. I've managed to rebuild it, but nothing overly-unique yet.

I also collect National Park Passport Cancellation Stamps. They essentially look like a postage stamp that the post office puts on every piece of mail, except the information within the circle is the name/location of the park and the date of your visit. The book is about 3"x4" and is divided into regions of the country. You can also buy stickers for each region by year which highlights a particular park and gives a little blurb of information about it. And if you don't have the book with you, they usually provide little scraps of paper big enough to stamp and take with you. Best of all, it's FREE.

Icollect words...lol
I just wanted to say that Offeiriad..
I use to collect books and paintings.
I now stopped collecting anyhting due to my partenr getting agitated about the amount of things I bring into the house.

Yes, sometimes collections can get out of hand, depending on the size of the things collected as well as the cost.

I don't collect anything, but my neighbor collects alligators. (Not real ones, lol)

I collect books...mostly science fiction paperbacks, and alien figurines. And I collect dust.

Pogeymanz, CDs, and books. And Star Wars paraphernalia.

Originally Posted by beanlord56

Pogeymanz

Eh?

Originally Posted by Offeiriad
Eh?

Pokemon. Thirteen years, five generations, and I still play the main games.

I collect old cameras. They aren't really worth much, although I do have a couple of old press cameras that are probably worth something. Most of them are from the 1930's - 1950's. I also have a few old movie cameras, a couple of projectors and some old View-Masters, which was a toy used to view 3-D images. They look pretty cool. I have them on shelves at work and in my home office.

Fashion boots, sandles, heels, flats, and flip-flops.... I love shoes! ;0)

Joe - You may have examples of the kinds of cameras I had when I was young. My first 35mm, a birthday gift from my brother when I was ten, was an Argus C3. Later in pawn shops I found an Anniversary Speed Graphic 4 by 5 and a nearly new Leica iiif. The iiif I carried for years, right up to the digital era.

Digital backs can be had for press cameras such as the Speed Graphic and for medium format cameras with removable backs such as the Hasselblad.

Along with Nacian I am a collector of words, have been since I was a child. Over the past 16 years I've accumulated a nice collection of miniature portraits of Her Majesty. Storing them is no problem. The bank is nice enough to keep them for me.

Hey, yeah -- I've got two Argus C3’s. Those are relatively easy to get and pretty cheap too.

The press cameras are the Graflex Crown Graphic with the Schenider lens and a Busch pressman Model D with a Kodak lens. The Graflex seems to be in good working condition. The lens seems a little slow, so would have to be re-timed. The lens on the Busch is stuck.

I haven’t shot with any of my old cameras except a 1960’s Pentax Spotmatic which is in perfect condition. The rest of them are pretty much cheaper consumer cameras, like the Kodak Hawkeye and Bullet -- some with the big flash bulb dishes. My oldest is a Kodak Brownie box camera – that’s from somewhere in the 1900’s -- but they made so many of them, it’s not worth much.

Books, and art and elephants, and this house is full of toys, like to the brim, what with all the kids Christmases and Birthdays. And I am sentimental so some of the toys will stay for sure. I love Legos and the Brio train.

I collect pennies of every year I can find. Got about seventy years worth right now. I also collect older videogames, N64, SNES, NES. I've scoured most the pawn shops in the area for older games.

I collected old keys of all shapes and sizes when I was seven, sometimes stumbling across the odd thimble or coin, which I also loved collecting. I had a bunch of at least three-hundred at one point, but I left them on the plane when we went to Florida. Probably for the best, hehe. I used to carry them everywhere on the off chance I'd actually find the door that one of 'em fitted . . . preferably Narnian.

I had handcuff keys, dresser keys, keys for torturous devices, locker keys, square-shaped keys. I was a simple lad.