What do you collect?

Youngster

Youngster

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Seems like we all collect something. From arrowheads to salt and pepper shakers and everything in between.

I collect pocket screwdrivers. They were popular in the 50's and 60's. They have a clip on them so you can keep it in the breast pocket of your shirt. (in your pocket protector). They also have an ad on the handle and most have a magnet on the top. I have one with a bottle opener on it. Garage mechanics carried them mostly. Given away by businesses kind of like ballpoint pens are these days.

It's an odd thing to collect, but interesting. Not too many of them around but when I do find one it's usually cheap. 25 or 50 cents.

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I use to collect Cut Glass and China Plates and the like , but boxed it all up years back and no longer display it .
Then I was thinking about my research into my Family History and Ive gained a collection of Birth and Death Certs from !800s in those days 11 children per family was not unusual , so following 2 Family lines of mine its mounting up .

I must point out they are not originals ,but copies Ive bought from the GRO. I find a lot of information from them and it fills in what the Social lives were like .
 
I have a collection of Vintage Victorian Scraps , the kind we swapped when were little girls at school. highly collectible now..

I also collect Ephemera connected with the long defunct Concorde Airline . Onboard freebees mainly in new condition.. Pens, headed Notepaper... Vanity bags, and so on..

I used to have a large collection of Vintage telephones the majority of which, I had altered to suit modern digital times, so they would work on digital networks.. and sole them at great profit.. I don't do that any more because the Telephone companies latched onto the popularity of these original Vintage phone, and produced their own already for the digital age.. /.. so there was less of a market for the original ones that I had.

I've kept 4 for my own entertainment.. 2 from the 1920's and 1930's.. and a couple from the 60's and 70's...

I also have 2 large Scrapbooks filled with Postcards from all over the world...
 
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Predictably - I collect cameras. :ROFLMAO:

At the moment I have 6 digital camera bodies and around 30 film cameras including 35mm and medium format.
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Oh that reminds me, I forgot about my Mobile phone collection. These are all phones I;ve owned...
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...and Diaries... what you see here is about 1/2 of what I have stored in boxes..

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You could call my Aloha shirts a collection, my favourite one is that of MG car prints:
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Wearing it when in my vintage MG, it gets many a compliment. My wife made all my shirts, she found the MG cars print quite by chance, the clever part though was to buy lapel pins from the MG Car Club, snip off the long spine, turn the stub into a loop and you have MG buttons.
 
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I used to collect crystal and porcelain bells and teapots. Not just any bells...Waterford, Fostoria, Gorham, Portmeirion, and any pretty porcelain teapots. They were displayed in a china cabinet (and the teapots often used) before we downsized and sold the house, but I couldn't bear to part with them because so many had sentimental value to me.

Some were gifts from friends who traveled the world, some I bought myself during my own travels abroad. Some were gifts from DH or from my kids.

I have a Staffordshire teapot and even a very old Brown Betty that made its way here with a great-great-grandmother from either Cornwall or Wales, don't remember which.

They all got carefully packed up and moved. Again and again and then again! Now they reside, still packed, on a shelf in DD's garage.

ETA: Cornwall! The Brown Betty came to me by way of my pasty gramma...her people would have come to North America from Cornwall.
 
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You could call my Aloha shirts a collection, my favourite one is that of MG car prints:
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Wearing it when in my vintage MG, it gets many a compliment. My wife made all my shirts, she found the MG cars print quite by chance, the clever part though was to buy lapel pins from the MG Car Club, snip of the long spine, turn the stub into a loop and you have MG buttons.
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Compliments to your wife. She is an excellent seamstress. The way she lined up the pocket fabric with the shirt is amazing. It makes the pocket disappear. Love that. 😊
 
Youngster said:
Seems like we all collect something. From arrowheads to salt and pepper shakers and everything in between.

I collect pocket screwdrivers. They were popular in the 50's and 60's. They have a clip on them so you can keep it in the breast pocket of your shirt. (in your pocket protector). They also have an ad on the handle and most have a magnet on the top. I have one with a bottle opener on it. Garage mechanics carried them mostly. Given away by businesses kind of like ballpoint pens are these days.

It's an odd thing to collect, but interesting. Not too many of them around but when I do find one it's usually cheap. 25 or 50 cents.

What do you collect?
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For a while it was "Salt and Pepper Shakers". Nowadays, I've had to change my salts to Pink Himalayan to raise my blood pressure when its too low and needing better delivery of iodine. Which I need for my thyroid.

Still collect coffee cups, mugs and such. When hubby was alive and we travelled around, deck of cards with a pic of the places we've visited. I've one from Montreal, Québec city and Toronto.

Hubby and I still have our stamps collections from childhood. No ideas what they're worth.
 
Me, refrigerator magnets and key chains, husband since passed, shot glasses.
From trips we had taken.

Now, family things, furniture, linens, kitchen ware, pipes, pocket knives, guns, jewlery, crystal, silver and assorted other family pieces.

Everyday things, I am the proud owner of dog fur from a chow, I choose to share it, put it outside in a basket for the squirrels and birds to use in their nests. They come and take what they need for their home.
 

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