I collect and use tools (hand tools for woodworking). Also books, probably have more books than anything else in my home.



John.

Firearms, my collection includes rifles, pistols and shotguns.

I have a lot of tools of all kinds. I guess I collect tools but not intentionally, I buy them when I need to use them. Most are not used much but are there when I need them. So besides trains I collect firearms, and tools by default.

I collect bills....

For a couple of years I went to local Camera shows and purchased accessories for my Pentax K2. Almost everything I purchased is Pentax brand, with the exception of my bellows.

Red rubber bands from the newspaper and red and white striped twist ties from the dry cleaners.



What, me worry?

I collect the Eggs every morning and every night.

I Don't know if you call wood Rot a collection but I have a restored 42 foot 1950 Matthews cruiser, 18' 1947 Lyman Islander, 18' 1955 Century close deck mahogany speed boat and a 21' 1959 Chris Craft COBRA, along with 2 race cars, Sears Super Suburban Garden tractors, A Coleman lantern collection, Antique marine compasses and binnacles, Marine inboard engines like a pair of Chris Craft 6 cyl Hercules Block WB200 6 cyl, Continental 4cyl, 1940's Evenrude outboards, Steam whistles, Antique stationary Diesel engines, 10 different A/C Power generators from mini to a small city in ampere size. And a whole bunch of other crap, I mean stuff.

I look at my collections as Emergency cash if I ever loose my job I can keep the roof over my head and food on the table for my family for a while.

Bluecometk

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Originally posted by Thom Zemanek:
I'm into vintage Pioneer Audio, and old "Strombecker" race cars, and 70-80's GM cars, Blow Torches, Boiler gages, 50's Lawn mowers, old paper ... on & on & on.

Have all my Hot wheels and the "super charger house's", (but not into that anymore).

*Anyone looking for a ONE owner 1980 Buick Regal? (It's on E Bay) ... LOL

"Life is a wonder of collecting" !!

What kinda 50's lawn mowers?? Power, reel, tractors??

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I Don't know if you call wood Rot a collection but I have a restored 42 foot 1950 Matthews cruiser, 18' 1947 Lyman Islander, 18' 1955 Century close deck mahogany speed boat and a 21' 1959 Chris Craft COBRA, along with 2 race cars, Sears Super Suburban Garden tractors, A Coleman lantern collection, Antique marine compasses and binnacles, Marine inboard engines like a pair of Chris Craft 6 cyl Hercules Block WB200 6 cyl, Continental 4cyl, 1940's Evenrude outboards

Geez, you sound like our house at one time. I remember working on my 1940 Old Town 10' tender, while Dad was varnishing the spars of his 1937 Herreshoff 12, and my brother was sanding the decks of our 1929 Matthews cruiser.

People kept stopping by and asking our rates. They thought we were a boatyard!

Last I saw of the tender, it was hanging from davits on another old boat headed for Florida waters in a blinding snowstorm. The Herreshoff 12 is on display behind the gift counter in the Herreshoff Marine Museum http://www.herreshoff.org and the Matthews is out taking my brother's family on vacation!

Jon

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What kinda 50's lawn mowers?? Power, reel, tractors??


Paul B

Toro's, OMC (Lawnboy) and "True Temper"power mowers, and old greens "reels" (4 golf greens) Tractors? No :-)

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Originally posted by Arthur P. Bloom:

Arthur,

That one has my jaw dropping.

Not one, but TWO "old rose" 302s.

I didn't know that they made key sets or speakerphones in pink.

Do I also spy a pink 5302 in there?

By the way, I'm planning on attending the TCI convention in Cincinatti. I'm not a member, but it's my understanding that it's open to the public on Saturday.


Any, yes, I also collect old telephones. My collection isn't nearly as impressive as Arthur's, although I do have a few nice telephones. Here's one of my better more recent finds

Arthur,

One other thing-you're missing one

Whether I'm a collector or operator of trains is debatable. I don't buy to collect, I buy to run them. But I do collect vintage Macintosh computers. I have 17 or so. And video game consoles. I have a bunch or those too.

Mostly pocket lint and doctor bills.

Stamps....

--Greg

My other 'toy.

I have a small collection of original American Civil War items. Not necessarily a collection of small American Civil War Items.

My buudy whos into planes got me into collecting airline safety cards (although I do have an Amtrak Superliner II card hahaha...). I also had an 85 Trans Am with a 305 (check my youtube profile, pup1234567, to see it) that I was planning to restore, although my mother had other plans and gave it away FOR FREE. Don't know how I'll forgive her for that...Hoping to find a cool muscle car for a couple thousand so i can get into Amateur drag racing next summer...

I don't "collect" trains, but have always collected SOMETHING...anything to do with 3-D photography, old tin packaging, Holiday postcards prior to WWI, Little Lulu comics, colorful antique Kodak cameras, View Master reels, and "quality" 1/43 diecast and handbuilt cars (I do include some Yat Ming).

I collect DUST!
However: When it's nice out, I fly planes!
What its not...I run trains!

Wes

i can see we are all competing to be on that new reality tv show "Hoarders"
i watched it last night and it was pretty eye opening...i felt compelled to start cleaning the train room, garage, attic, etc., etc.

I collect Doepke pressed steel toys.
Model Toys were made by the Charles William Doepke
Company, Inc. of Rossmoyne, Ohio. The name is correctly
pronounced “Dep-key.” When they first appeared on the market
in 1946 they simply stunned the toy industry. There were no
other toys on the market that came even close to the quality,
scale, size, and realism of these “Model Masterpieces” of the
sandbox.

Of course that quality came with a price. Dad had to shell out at
least $11.95 for one of these babies. In those days that was a
steep price, but Doepke ads countered that criticism with the
claim that their toys would “outlast others by 3 to 1.” And,
judging by the number of Doepke toys still in existence some 60
years later, they were probably right.

Many of you will recgnize these as well as having had the pleasure of having one back then.

I collect ham radio equiptment and old cars to restore and resell

Yes, the Benz s a diesel. The long wheel based diesel was labelled 300-SDL (to distinguish it from 3the gas powered SEL). Mine is young, only 325,000 miles on it.

After seeing the pink phones I am not too embarassed to admit the only other collection I have: antique fountain pens. Here are just a few, I am trimming my collection down from about 80 pens.

some more stuff am startin to collect.
ghostrider comics

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I also collect old telephones. My collection isn't nearly as impressive as Arthur's, although I do have a few nice telephones. Here's one of my better more recent finds

I bought this rotary phone at an estate sale for $1.00 it was still mounted on the wall when I asked if it was for sale, The woman said what do you want that for? Well we all have cell phones but I needed a land line for my house.

It sure gets the comments and My daughters have a great time showing thier
hightek friends how to use it.

1931 Model A Ford Victoria Restoration Project


1931 Model A Ford Coupe

Harleyhouse,

That's a fine looking telephone.

Have you found the rotary phone forum at http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php

By the way, I can't speak for Arthur, but the majority of my collection is manly black .

(small selection of the 50+ currently in my collection)

I'm also currently trying to assemble a collection of Western Electric 500 sets in all of the colors available in "soft plastic" which was used up to about mid-1959. The red one pictured above is soft plastic, from 1955. I need light gray, dark(Oxford) gray, Mahogony Brown, yellow, blue, green, aqua, and ivory. Some of those, particularly blue, brown, and gray, are very, very difficult to find.

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Originally posted by Boomer:
Hammond organs,Leslie speakers,Vintage Synthesizers,Pipe Organs and HIFI.

Boomer

WOW!!! You must have a lot of room!

I'd love to get my hands on a Hammond B3!


I also collect o scale vehicles and Monopoly board games.

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Originally posted by harleyhouse:
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I also collect old telephones. My collection isn't nearly as impressive as Arthur's, although I do have a few nice telephones. Here's one of my better more recent finds

I bought this rotary phone at an estate sale for $1.00 it was still mounted on the wall when I asked if it was for sale, The woman said what do you want that for?

Well..........

We STILL USE our red, rotary, Western Electric, wall phone.
In fact, the phone attached to this computer is a tan, rotary desk phone.
They work GREAT when the electricity goes out!!! LOL!

Wes

Besides Lionel, I collect Tyco US-1 Trucking Slot car items, Vintage Corgi Major and Matchbox Superkings diecast cars and trucks for my Lionel Layout, Original Plasticville, and outdoor Plastic blowmold Christmas decorations that light up, you know, those tacky statues! Among a few other toys and what not.

If anyone is thinking of getting rid of there outdoor xmas decorations, drop me a line!!

Mark