Colt SP-1 from 1973
I enjoy the U.S. small arms from World War II and earlier best but have one example of a "retro black rifle" to go with the earlier stuff.
"I collect too much honestly."
I do too and also have a wonderful wife who cannot comprehend collecting anything but puts up with me anyway.
I don't remember mentioning double-edge razors earlier in this thread but have collected most of the 20th century Gillette models beginning with Gillette's first model, an uncommonly found 1904 Gillette "Double Ring."
My favorite daily shaver is the pre-war Gillette Aristocrat (gold, open-comb model on right). Makes one feel like Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, or Clark Gable to shave with it.
Two other scarce models shown here are the gold 1940 Regent Tech (center), the production of which lasted only a year before wartime requirements caused it to be discontinued, and the rhodium 1949 Executive (left), the only completely rhodium-plated American Gillette model which was only sold in the Christmas season of 1949.
Without giving it much thought… baseball gloves.
I started buying old ones to make watch straps.
So it’s all your fault.
Some very nice "What Else?" collections. Through the years, I have accumulated many things that, prior to this thread, I would have considered "collections". But my bicycles and baseball cards can't compete with what I have seen here.
However, I do have some plastic guns and rifles...that go with my GI Joe Action Figures (not dolls). None of my originals made it out of childhood. These are all later issues that I picked up hoping to interest my young son (It didn't work. He was too obsessed with Star Wars).
As I look at it now, I'm very disappointed with the Mercury Astronaut...
No Speedmaster!
Sweet! I do have some GI Joe originals that made it out of my childhood. Most of it is in far from mint condition, though my West Point cadet is complete and in mostly decent shape. Alas, my mother was unwilling to save my Navy jet fighter plane as it was taking up too much attic space. Nor my seat from the original Yankee Stadium, but that's another sad story.
