The (other) things we collect

Kitchen knives are my #1 collectable as well. I have a few Japanese knives, but most are from US makers who make knives with similar profiles and steel hardnesses. I hang out a lot on kitchenknifeforums.com. It started as a way to speed up meal prep, as the Wusthof knives I was using were very disappointing, and over the years turning into a great way to spend $ on things that are actually usable. But after 2 years here on OF, my watch collection has eclipses my knife collection in value 😗

I still have my coin collection from when I was a kid, plus my grandfather's stamp collection, although neither have seen the light of day in about 20 years. (they do not contain anything rare, and most of the stamps were cancelled ones)

a few more here..

https://omegaforums.net/threads/what-else-do-you-collect.23928/page-9#post-297390

As I was mentioning to Chris, I was pretty lucky with Magic the gathering as just after I got my first 60 card deck and couple of booster packs (I went without lunch many tuckshop days as my lunch money was slightly more than the cost of a MTG booster pack at the shop near the school gate), for my 7th birthday my grandfather gave me a MTG book that listed all the rare cards and how to identify them.

There was no real internet access here back then and no MTG websites and the cards themselves had no information on them concerning rarity, the rares also typically had really complicated and unappealing text on them compared to like a 8/4 trample (crash of rhinos http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=3379&type=card) which looks cool and powerful but is actually costly to play and only useful late game.

So I basically proceeded to trade my commons and uncommons that looked cool but weren't rare for other people's boring looking rares as I had the book and could identify them when nobody else knew. After primary school my collection was about 60% rares compared to most people's 5%. Mine are all played though not mint and we used to play on the concrete handball courts so the backs are often scuffed up a fair bit but I don't regret that at all, had a lot of fun doing it and I still play Magic The Gathering on iPad now (Magic Duels) and Hearthstone.

Below are some of my favourites, Ihsan's Shade has art by Christopher Rush, the same artist that did Black Lotus and I love the design he did for that card, its easily my favourite of all. Infernal Darkness I have four of and is my favourite bastard card, playing a 4 way or more game it totally incapacitates any player not playing a black deck (like myself) and probably brought me more wins than any other.

BTW if anyone wants to try hearthstone let me know and I'll send you an invite code so I can get a cool shaman avatar if you make it to level 20, I asked Trev if he would but he said his wife would make fun of him for being a nerd if he played a card game lol.

Your ellipsis collection is way better than mine.

...So his ellipsis eclipses yours?

My ellipsis has elapsed.

Unfortunately no pics, but in no particular order here are things that clutter our house:
- vinyl records 1000+
- Contax rangefinder cameras and lenses
- all other camera systems
- fountain pens ( I do repair them myself)
- tube amplifiers (partially home made)

Probably forgot something.

I'll take a bit of a liberty in defining "other" things we collect. That is, other than watches. A collection I would define as more than one, but as many as you like. I have a small (two) collection of marine chronometers. May I take a tiny liberty, and show them?



The larger chronometer is a Hamilton model 21, 14-jewels, one diamond end stone in the balance cock, free sprung, helical hairspring, fusee, Earnshaw (spring detent) escapement, 52-hour run time, up/down wind indicator, key wound and set, finished September, 1944. One of about 15,500 produced. In October of 1944, Hamilton produced more than 600 model 21s. I don't know of another marine chronometer maker who can match the quantity. Patterned after a Negus chronometer. Produced between 1943 and circa 1969. Mahogany cases by the Heintzman Piano company of New York.

The smaller one is a Hamilton model 22, torpedo boat chronometer. But also used by merchant marine, coastal patrol, and numerous branches of the Navy. It is lever escapement, stem wound, stem set, 21-jewels, 52-hour run time, up/down wind indicator. On this one, I don't know how many were made, or when this one was made.

Great things to see and read about.. thanks for sharing