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The (other) things we collect

GeorgeBailey2
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I was inspired to post by person that had the 1951 Bowman cards in the background in, I believe, the WRUW thread.
Also, lots of sets in binders (Topps Baseball from 1972 forward and Topps and OPC hockey from 1971 forward), a couple graded sets (1954 Topps Hockey and 1964 Topps Giants) and graded individual player cards (mostly Schmidt, Jeter, Jackson, Gretzky, Bernie Parent and Sawchuk with some current Flyers mixed in).

The Lindbergh jersey is probably my favorite. It is the 1st quarter home jersey from his full rookie season (82-83). It was my freshman year in college and the last season the Flyers practiced at Penn. My friend and I would go to practices and were able to buy some jerseys from the team via the head trainer. Most of the Gretzky autographs were obtained that year as the western teams would typically come in a day early and practice.
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Edward53
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I don't know if this counts as collecting but pieces of jet sometimes wash up on our local beach. Here are some of the more pleasing bits we've picked up. Jet is the fossilised wood of the Araucaria (=monkey puzzle) tree family and some of these show the grain and the bark nicely. Note the small ammonite near the corner of the largest piece. [Edit: in fact there are three of them, as I now see for the first time.] The one at the bottom of the photo is 5 inches long.

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These are our two biggest chunks so far. The larger one is 3.5 by 4 inches and weighs a whopping 281.5 grams.

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We've also found fossils, a prehistoric bead, the occasional coin, fragments from ship and plane wrecks, two human bones and a large unexploded shell. Some things are best left behind.
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GeorgeBailey2 GeorgeBailey2
I was inspired to post by person that had the 1951 Bowman cards in the background in, I believe, the WRUW thread.
Also, lots of sets in binders (Topps Baseball from 1972 forward and Topps and OPC hockey from 1971 forward), a couple graded sets (1954 Topps Hockey and 1964 Topps Giants) and graded individual player cards (mostly Schmidt, Jeter, Jackson, Gretzky, Bernie Parent and Sawchuk with some current Flyers mixed in).

The Lindbergh jersey is probably my favorite. It is the 1st quarter home jersey from his full rookie season (82-83). It was my freshman year in college and the last season the Flyers practiced at Penn. My friend and I would go to practices and were able to buy some jerseys from the team via the head trainer. Most of the Gretzky autographs were obtained that year as the western teams would typically come in a day early and practice.
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An aqaintance of mine from uni used to live next door to Wayne Gretzky. He said that Gretzky would sometimes go out in the street and play hockey with the local kids.
I also had a work colleague who lived next door to Mohammed Ali. She didn't know who he was until she was a teenager and had moved away.
 
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Rubik's Cubes. Back in high school I had the World's Record (21 seconds). This was 1980. Personal record is 14secs. Every time I saw a different one I picked it up. Below are ones from my office. The others(dozens) are in a box somewhere in storage. I had one once that ran on ball bearings. That was the best one. Must have lost it somewhere. I also had a custom one made from polished stainless steel. Fully functional but really too heavy to handle properly. Std units (like those below) can't keep up with the speed of really fast hand movements. There was a whole subculture on how to make cubes "race ready".

I literally couldn't tell you how to solve one today. It is buried so deep in my subconscious I could freak people out by carrying on a conversation while I solved it in front of them, only occasionally glancing down to see the pattern. I haven't done one in a few years now but may give it go now that I have posted this.
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bovecHD
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GeorgeBailey2 GeorgeBailey2
I was inspired to post by person that had the 1951 Bowman cards in the background in, I believe, the WRUW thread.
Also, lots of sets in binders (Topps Baseball from 1972 forward and Topps and OPC hockey from 1971 forward), a couple graded sets (1954 Topps Hockey and 1964 Topps Giants) and graded individual player cards (mostly Schmidt, Jeter, Jackson, Gretzky, Bernie Parent and Sawchuk with some current Flyers mixed in).

The Lindbergh jersey is probably my favorite. It is the 1st quarter home jersey from his full rookie season (82-83). It was my freshman year in college and the last season the Flyers practiced at Penn. My friend and I would go to practices and were able to buy some jerseys from the team via the head trainer. Most of the Gretzky autographs were obtained that year as the western teams would typically come in a day early and practice.

NICE Collection. Love the local stuff. PHL!!
 
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jimmyd13 jimmyd13
Outside of watches, collections just get a bit silly ... I can't see the point at all ....

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sovereign and half sovereigns in the case?
 
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bags1971 bags1971
sovereign and half sovereigns in the case?
Yes - I'm aiming for the full set of Victorias ... give me time.
 
bags1971
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Yes - I'm aiming for the full set of Victorias ... give me time.
my one the only one ive kept found metal detecting blackpool beach had 5 in 17 years 😀
 
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Vulffi
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Maybe not collecting, but I was searching for a spare phone for my daughter and these were left after she took off with an E7 and laughed at how old-fashioned it was 😀.

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Vulffi Vulffi
Maybe not collecting, but I was searching for a spare phone for my daughter and these were left after she took off with an E7 and laughed at how old-fashioned it was 😀.

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Dibs on the communicators. 😎
 
Vulffi
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tyrantlizardrex tyrantlizardrex
Dibs on the communicators. 😎
The communicators can always be traded against .................................. watches ? I am open to any decent suggestions 😀

Vullfi
 
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Vulffi Vulffi
The communicators can always be traded against .................................. watches ? I am open to any decent suggestions 😀

Vullfi

When I've built a time machine, we can go back to 1992 and sell these to Nokia... #paradox
 
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watchdaddy1 watchdaddy1
a pole & a safe [emoji12]

How do you get the girls in the safe? Or the money to stay on the pole for that matter?

Asking for a friend.
 
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How do you get the girls in the safe? Or the money to stay on the pole for that matter?

Asking for a friend.


Lick & stick em' ...uhmh for your friend of course
 
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Foo2rama Foo2rama
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That's the Scotch only...


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Everything not Scotch...

That's just the drinking stuff. The wine and beer as well as long term collection/investment storage is in another place.

I've got an alcohol problem, thankfully not a drinking problem.


Big fan or scotch my self... just a few "upstairs"
 
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