If you were to collect something..

[rbiemer]

Just imagine that you could go back in time and saved all those silver dimes and quarters that were pre-1965.
Cal

I don't collect coins as a hobby but I do keep anything unusual that shows up in my change. This has worked out well for me; I spend very littletime or effort and every once in a while I sell the accumulation for a modest reward.
I sort of accidentally got my dad a slide rule collection; he was a mechanical engineer before he retired and I remembered him always having one around(actually I'm old enough to have learned how to use them in school). So a few years back, I found a nice on at a garage sale and gave it to him for his birthday. And have done that several times since. Forgetting that I'd given him the others. :bang:
He gave me a bit of crap about that the last time I did it until I suggested he sell them and they turned out to be worth a few bucks. Pretty sure he turned those into a really nice bottle of single malt.

Rob

 

[shadowfox]

My wife and I collect vintage stuff.

Most of them are pre-70's, stuff like custom lamps, books, tools, toys, magazines, furniture, vintage clothespins, golf tees, basically whatever looks interesting and not sticky or smelly (hahaha).

We decorate our small house with it. Never failed to generate interesting conversations among our friends who come visiting.

This fascination with old stuff carries over to my photos.

When I display this on the wall, it kinda blends with the surrounding 🙂

 

[daveleo]

I collected baseball playing cards when I was a kid. Had the whole Brooklyn Dodgers, Yankees and Giants team plus many others.
My mother tossed them when I moved out to California (1966).

In the baseball Hall of fame, one Jackie Robinson card (encased in plastic) is priced at around $400. So I am wondering what my shoeboxes filled with cards would be worth today.

But, no . . . I don't collect anything. Like some others here, I just buy junk that I "must have" and hoard junk that I "just can't bare to part with" at the moment.

 

[CK Dexter Haven]

I may be the only person I know who's never played golf. Strikes me as a hobby that confirms you're a bore.

Neither have i. Never will i. Seems ridiculous that it's ever televised. When the most interesting part of the best highlight of the best possible golf shot possible in any tournament is... the fist pump, it's just... ridiculous. And i don't care that the game is 'difficult.'

Back to topic?
I would love to collect vintage photographs. I'd love to have a selection of original prints of Marilyn Monroe, especially.

I sorta do collect books, although i imagine 'actively collecting' means you have a scheme, and some sort of purpose is a component of the pursuit? I don't have that. I just add to the shelves.

I wouldn't mind having a bunch of cameras, although i wouldn't want them unless i was using them. Not stuff just for the shelves.

Like someone said above, i'm a minimalist, with an accumulator's weakness. Or, at least, i was. When money was flowing. Nowadays, i'm pared down and not interested in acquiring things i don't need. But, that, too, is a habit learned.

Wouldn't mind having a selection of watches. But, not more than 5-10.
And, cars.* Again, not more than 5 or 6. Stuff to use, not to just catalog and admire.


current Aston Martin convertible
vintage Aston Martin or Ferrari convertible
current Ferrari something or other
BMW M3 or M5 or Mercedes sedan
Range Rover
Porsche 911
that would do it, right?

Watches:
two Panerais
two Cartiers
an Omega
....?

 

[Pablito]

Poodle corkscrews. No kidding. And objects shaped like human hands. Or feet.

 

[panerai]

Besides watch magazines to check out new items. I happen to have a number of knives which I like. Some are carry around and some are stay at home and look at.

Here's a few images.

DON

 

[peterm1]

Oh very well, if i must be serious about this, I confess to a passing desire to collect vintage fountain pens. Problem is there are more of them (in terms of makes, models and variants) and unbelievably, the damn things are nearly as dear as cameras to buy! So I have tried to resist.

 

[Darkhorse]

Coins aren't just my hobby, they're my full time job and I love it.

 

[alexsoch]

memories...

memories...

I am already collector, I collect pictures, memories 🙂

 

[thawkins]

Fine Swiss watches, German rangefinder cameras, Minolta SRT cameras and any finely built mechanical apparatus.

 

[Roger Hicks]

In my 'teens, twenties and thirties I used to collect piggy banks and toy pigs, but they started taking up too much room: I doubt I buy one a year nowadays. My favourite is a clockwork pig with a weighted tail. Wind him up, and the tail rotates so he dances. Well, he jumps up and down and skates around a bit, anyway. A sovereign remedy against melancholy. Why pigs? Because pigs are nice. There's an old saying (which apparently Churchill rather liked): "Cats are haughty, and dogs are servile, but a pig'll treat 'ee as an equal."

Also, since I moved to France, old tools. There's a courtyard behind my house and I use 'em to decorate the walls: axes, scythes, billhooks, bow-saws, blacksmiths' tools, fire-jacks... I've even got a hammer and sickle, arranged in the classic fashion, on one of the stable doors. They cost next to nothing; they're an interesting bit of history; and they're more interesting than plain walls. Again, I buy far fewer than I used to because the walls are getting filled up.

I used to collect Leicas but gave up in the 70s when I realised how much money I had tied up. In those days, of course, 'funnies' were a lot cheaper: twenty-five pounds (call it $50) for a stereo beamsplitter and viewer. I think I sold them for GBP 125 the pair.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Godfrey]

I'm not so much a collector as an accreter. Things just show up and stick around here. I try my best to get rid of stuff I don't use or really care about, but the cabinets and shelves just keep getting full again. It's weird.

Photo books, interesting novels, 1:43 scale interesting model cars, cameras of many different types, interesting tin boxes, photographic prints, weird computer gizmos, fortune cookie fortunes ... I don't intend to collect any of them, but sneakily and behind my back, I find myself with neat little sets of interesting junk that I like.

Such it is.

G

 

[Paul Jenkin]

I've got a few cameras (I haven't counted but probably 8-10- max) but I wouldn't want to collect them for the sake of it. All my kit is used regularly.

If I was to collect anything, it would have to be small as our home wouldn't allow otherwise. Probably fountain pens / writing equipment as I do have 3 really nice / old pens with which I enjoy writing. Oh, and they'd also need to be very affordable as well.....

 

[furcafe]

I collect photographs. That I take myself.

As an offshoot of that, I collect cameras & lenses.

 

[Overkill-F1]

Tic-Tock

Tic-Tock

I collected mechanical, wind-up alarm clocks for quite a while. I would strip them down, clean, repair, oil and put them back together.
I love the sound of a good mechanical clock, it helps me fall asleep.
...Terry

 

[jky]

Watches - mechanical watches either hand wound or automatics.

 

[axiom]

You know the joke: Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish, and you get rid of him for the whole weekend.

I have heard something like this. It was from Aladin

 

[Roger Hicks]

I collected mechanical, wind-up alarm clocks for quite a while. I would strip them down, clean, repair, oil and put them back together.
I love the sound of a good mechanical clock, it helps me fall asleep.
...Terry

Whereas on the other hand it keeps me awake...

Cheers,

R.

 

[Chris101]

I collect model cars. It used to be green volkswagens, but lately, it's white mustangs. Go fig.

 

[Fawley]

Bookmarks. I like bookmarks. The kind they give out in good quality used book stores. They remind me of my experience in the store.

And of course cameras.