The (other) things we collect

Als 27 · Apr 29, 2020

CajunTiger
Very Very collectable love them, 😀🥰
You can't beat a Fine Vintage Time Piece, along with a Fine Cigar / Cigarette Lighter the two go hand in hand...🥰
Again First Class Workmanship & Craftsmanship built to last. 😀

man7 · Oct 28, 2020

ahartfie
@Fritz, since you have an antique German barometer too, any hints on how I can fix mine? It hasn't budged since I got it a few years ago. It was part of my great-grandfather's bespoke office set and I'd like to get it working again, but I haven't the faintest idea of where to start. Klutz that I am, I don't want to start taking it apart willy-nilly.

Anyone else with ideas, I'm all ears.

Have you tried a zip-lock bag test? Insert the barometer into a clean zip-lock (freezer bag), inflate and seal, gently squeeze the inflated bag, the indicator hand should go up and down when pressed. Try that first. If it fails this test it could be the capsule or the fusee linkage. Contact me--I'm curious about it.

Spruce · Oct 28, 2020

CajunTiger
Dunhill Aldunil lighters from the 50's and 60's. Hand made in the small Guillon workshop in Paris starting in 1952 and sold primarily in France.

30t1 · Oct 28, 2020

nixf6
Indian Motor Bikes 1913 to 1951

Ok you win

30t1 · Oct 28, 2020

neilbardsley
😀

The latest additional to my walls. I fortunate enough to own a 356 from 1956. Unfortunately it didn't race in Mille Miglia!

Still my favorite car, had a chance to buy years back, now I regret it. 1 the continental 356 porsche.

Edward53 · Oct 30, 2020

Not things I've actively collected but becoming a collection by default: most of the footpaths round here go over fields at some point and at ploughing time I usually pick up a few worked flints on certain walks. These four came from the same field. R to L - a blade, a tranchet arrowhead, an awl and something unidentified.

Some blades and an arrowhead from different sites. Last touched 6000-8000 years ago. I keep notes of the date and map reference.

river rat · Oct 31, 2020

I collect stuff that go with some of the time pieces I collect. Like pilot wings that the pilot wore that wore the type of military watch I have in the collection.
Here are some Czech Pilot badges

Just got this one today in the mail from WW2 came from England so probably from a battle of Briton Pilot is a lapel pin .

Group shot of them all WW2 era lapel pin, Pilot Badge after WW2 soviet era and soviet area mechanic badge these two both made in the same factory from the marks on back.

Watches they go with.

WW2 era US Navy air crew wings my dad was a ball turret gunner on avenger torpedo aircraft in WW2 was lucky to survive or I would not be here maybe why I got this one. Photo of my dad in WW2.

Patty a member at the MWR forum gave me these wings from a relative of hers a US citizen that went to Canada before the US got into WW2 to go to England to Fight the NAZI's some thing that mite not happen today of a nation with NAZI idea's that's why they were the greatest generation then went to fight on the US side when we entered the war. Both sets of his wings.

Some WW2 era wings and post ww2 Canadian wings. And a few others I all ready posted about.

river rat · Oct 31, 2020

Now I collect maritime navigation time pieces so I collect navigation equipment. I spent a lot of time on the bridge at sea when on a ammunition ship a floating bomb when I was boatswain mate of the watch when in the US Navy check out the WW2 port Chicago at concord explosion were one blew up during loading took out the ship the pier and a town not for from it the anchor landed in some ones yard there is a monument were the pier use to be with all names who parish that day the base closed down in the 1990's. There a YouTube video of one that blew up at sea in WW2 looked like a small nuke going off glad the two years I was on it that we had no major accidents.

A navigation chart for the WW2 era cool to look at with all the name changes since WW2 of countries I can see on the chart places I been and were I went over the equator to become a shell back you polliwogs who are civilian.

Like what the quartermaster use to call a spy glass this is a British one from WW2 use to id other ships from a distance and look at possible danger close to shore when coming into port.

This tells you the degrees the ship is rolling being on the bridge during a typhoon you really don't want to see how far it go's.

A British Navy navigation chart of Guam why did I get this my first duty station out of boot camp on the USS Proteus AS-19 that was home ported there.

A weather device you see some times see on the bridge

lindo · Oct 31, 2020

My interest in vintage and antique watches is part of a broader love of anything made by hand by master craftsmen. For example, when I found this set of 1870 vintage English surgeon's instruments hidden away in the back of an antique shop in Spain, I could not believe my luck - they were in outstanding condition, with only a few items missing from the case.

Amputation knives - still in unused condition. The high carbon steel is mirror finished by hand.

Top tray of the set

Bottom tray

Amputation saws in side the lid. The little one is for cutting into the skull.

The full set

And finally, the lovely brass bound, solid mahogany case.

river rat · Nov 1, 2020

I also collected stuff from Navy commands I was assigned to. Like challenge coins if you were in a bar on base with members from the same command if you did not have it in your pocket you got stuck buying the round. Also command lighter's. The ship or Command would get these made up sell them and the profit would go to stuff like a fund that helps the crew. Commands Special Boat Unit XI, Cargo Handling Battalion 3, Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Unit 103. There is a copy of a beret flash from a reunion I went to you could only have it on your beret if you were NEC 9533 Combat crewman qualified took me a year to earn that. The design a twin 50 gun tub in a PBR patrol boat. We were the only unit in the US Navy at the time with a beret as part of your uniform a tradition from Vietnam. Believe this set my beret down on the PBR once came back some one who did not earn it stole it off the beret had to got to the XO and tell him what happen to get another. Those berets did look stupid if you did not have a flash on it but you got to earn it.

STANDY · Nov 1, 2020

river rat
I also collected stuff from Navy commands I was assigned to. Like challenge coins if you were in a bar on base with members from the same command if you did not have it in your pocket you got stuck buying the round.

Challenge coins.....Have a heap of them from over the years

ahartfie · Nov 2, 2020

M man7
Have you tried a zip-lock bag test? Insert the barometer into a clean zip-lock (freezer bag), inflate and seal, gently squeeze the inflated bag, the indicator hand should go up and down when pressed. Try that first. If it fails this test it could be the capsule or the fusee linkage. Contact me--I'm curious about it.

Thanks for the idea! I just tried it and no movement whatsoever. 🙁

kboyle · Nov 3, 2020

Not as much as I used to, but sneakers

river rat · Nov 3, 2020

Any one collect military coffee cups the military runs on coffee only got one

river rat · Nov 9, 2020

Here is some thing no one posted yet as a collectable. Use to get these at antique stores and antique fairs because they were sort of cheap to collect watch fobs

They were sold as souvenirs or given away as advertising some were from colleges and heavy equipment advertising and even elections advertising like these better than junk mail got to much of that crap this year from both party's.

How they were used my favorite one the Buffalo Bill wild west show souvenir paid the most for this one like 60 bucks but most were 5-25 bucks.

Redwes25 · Nov 9, 2020

A portion of my other collection.

Tony C. · Nov 9, 2020

Redwes25
A portion of my other collection.

A racing fan, eh?

Redwes25 · Nov 9, 2020

Tony C.
A racing fan, eh?

Mostly Bourbon/Whiskey fan but been to several Kentucky Derby's which started me buying the glasses. After each Derby, I walk out with way to many glasses!

Foo2rama · Nov 9, 2020

Redwes25
A portion of my other collection.

Are you going to drink the McKenna, resell it, or collect it? It was good at the original price, the price it is now is way to inflated for what it is. Sure it won whisky of the year, but it won it at its pricepoint.

Redwes25 · Nov 9, 2020

Foo2rama
Are you going to drink the McKenna, resell it, or collect it? It was good at the original price, the price it is now is way to inflated for what it is. Sure it won whisky of the year, but it won it at its pricepoint.

Drink it! Will probably open as soon as I finish off the Blantons. Agree it’s price and many other Bourbon’s prices have really pushed up on secondary market. It is a good bottle and had it before when it was easy to find at 40 bucks. Though you can still find it at reasonable prices if you have relationships with stores.

Buying good Bourbons has turned into buying a Rolex. Finding stuff that is not inflated in the secondary market is tough. Luckily have a pretty good relationship with a couple of liquor stores.