I collect 1st edition books. I have been collecting them for 20years. Its a lot cheaper than buying watches but like collecting watches I dont do it with a view to making any money. I did pick up...
Following on from today's Time 4A Pint Podcast, in which @neilfrancis talks a lot about collecting things, other than watches, I was interested to hear what else people collect. ...
That can't be true We all know money gets turned into watches fairly quickly. 😀 Or otherwise turns into nothing due to inflation. So you're probably investing in assets instead if you want to keep it.
An exception would be historical bills and coins which can grow in value.
I guess reptiles? I put 2 white eyed croc skinks in a tank. I now have 7 white eyed croc skinks in the tank. Not sure what happened. There's Penny, my 2 yr old Russian rat snake, who is the most adorable and friendly little noodle, at 3 1/2 feet, and The Greenies, 2 green keel bellied lizards who have their arboritum.
My dad used to collect old Hammond organs. He said they had the best sound and some of the best amplifiers in them. He'd see one on the side of the road and have a buddy with a pickup truck go down and grab it and then he'd fix it up. When he passed away there were 4 in his basement. All of them in tip top condition, and we found a local buyer almost immediately. I was sort of shocked there was another collector close buy almost drooling to get his collection.
Seems to be the problem at the moment. Hammond are great instruments. We used to have one in the hall. There were several people who wanted it. Since my friend is more into theater organs, he jumped at the chance to replace it with a rare 'pit' orchestra organ which was among the first to use the horseshoe console than a upright piano console.
I think the guy who got the Hammond has passed on, What happened to it I do no know.
It is amazing the survival rate of the old theater instruments. Some have even gone back 'home' into the theaters they were built for. Most of these are now 100 years old. That sort of gives them a different feel in a way. An issue though is that access is a lot more restricted, which makes it hard for the younger people to get exposure and make the effort to play them.
Finding people to work on them is also an issue. Especially as they contain lead, Use animal leather, and require solvents such as denatured alcohol to wet the shellac which is made from bug shit. Since all this is low hanging fruit for those who want to ban things for the greater good, it makes it difficult for them to be much other than a static display. Much easier to sample the sound loops and create a 'virtual' instrument which does not take up a lot of space and is easy to use.
Eventually others will come along and make their own myths about what these are and how they are used. Same for watches and other collectables.
Snap-together plastic scale models of aircraft... In the late 1990s and up to 2012 passengers were offered these onboard the airliner You were flying, so one could get the actual airplane. These were low-cost but superb models (US $ 20.00 as I recall) but nowadays a rarely seen thing onboard aircraft.
The SwissAir DC-4 is a more recent model which as I got as a gift...
Vintage wood duck hunting decoys, like this 100 yr old pair from Belleville Ontario
Originality, condition, and honest hunting use are prized qualities for collectors.
Vintage wood duck hunting decoys, like this 100 yr old pair from Belleville Ontario
Originality, condition, and honest hunting use are prized qualities for collectors.