[djpop]

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Over my many rears I have collected many things and still have most of them. I started collecting coins as a teenager and still have my penny albums plus recent coins. I was given a stamp collection by an uncle and collected stamps for many years and still have the collection. I went into art in the 70s oils , serigraphs. air brush paintings and on.I then collected plates by major artists and have over 200 plates. I have all the playboys from 1956 thru 1970. about 20 plus years ago I started collecting colored gemstones this is my largest collection and the most valuable and now watches. my first two watches were invicata that I got about 10 years ago at that time they didnt put model #s on them. About a year ago I discovered shop and bought 14 watches before they started changing there sales policy.I have keep misc. thing like my first bamboo slide rule the LA Times the day after Kennady was shot. I know some of you must have collected other then watches and wondered what you have collected?? Iam interested!

 

[TVDinner]

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Great question DJ

At different times I have collected

Stamps - when much younger
Baseball and basketball cards - also something from decades ago
Coins - more recent in my life, but almost all sold to fund one thing or another, including watches

 

[Spaceview]

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Yes, I have a few other small collections

1) I have every Topps Baseball card made since the year my son was born (1987). Someday I may give them to him......:%
I have added some non-Topps cards over the years to the collection.

2) I have collected USPS stamps dating back to the 1980 Olympic games. The stamps were issued and I thought they might be worth something if we didn't go, so I started collecting them.

3) I have a small collection of coins. Mostly silver coins and some older items, but of little overall value.

 

[djpop]

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TVDinner wrote:

Great question DJ

At different times I have collected

Stamps - when much younger
Baseball and basketball cards - also something from decades ago
Coins - more recent in my life, but almost all sold to fund one thing or another, including watches

BRO REMEMBER I SAID I HAD A SAFE:%

 

[djpop]

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Spaceview wrote:

Yes, I have a few other small collections

1) I have every Topps Baseball card made since the year my son was born (1987). Someday I may give them to him......:%
I have added some non-Topps cards over the years to the collection.

2) I have collected USPS stamps dating back to the 1980 Olympic games. The stamps were issued and I thought they might be worth something if we didn't go, so I started collecting them.

3) I have a small collection of coins. Mostly silver coins and some older items, but of little overall value.

Something I never got into was cards my son collected them.

 

[Spaceview]

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Something I never got into was cards my son collected them.

Quick story:

I had a very valuable baseball card collection as a kid. My Junior year in college I had no money and was looking for a summer job. I needed some cash so I sold the collection for $1500. Today it would be worth 10X that. The biggest mistake I ever made. I had a friend that bought a condo several years later by selling his collection and mine was better.

 

[djpop]

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Spaceview wrote:

Something I never got into was cards my son collected them.

Quick story:

I had a very valuable baseball card collection as a kid. My Junior year in college I had no money and was looking for a summer job. I needed some cash so I sold the collection for $1500. Today it would be worth 10X that. The biggest mistake I ever made. I had a friend that bought a condo several years later by selling his collection and mine was better.

Marc you and I know we all have made mistakes in our lives i could talk about mine for hours.

 

[CurrentTime]

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djpop wrote:

Spaceview wrote:

Something I never got into was cards my son collected them.

Quick story:

I had a very valuable baseball card collection as a kid. My Junior year in college I had no money and was looking for a summer job. I needed some cash so I sold the collection for $1500. Today it would be worth 10X that. The biggest mistake I ever made. I had a friend that bought a condo several years later by selling his collection and mine was better.

Marc you and I know we all have made mistakes in our lives i could talk about mine for hours.

Reminds me of my father's story of how his Brother threw out his (my Dad's) 1950s/1960s Lionel trains after my father moved out and got married. My Uncle wanted his "big brother's" vacated space, so he threw out all the track, trains, buildings, etc.!




I have collected ink pens and ink wells, LP records (various forms of rock music), Nascar (and other motor sports) memorabilia including model cars, signatures, etc., Pittsburgh Steelers memorabilia (since the mid-'70's), and Stephen King Autographed 1st Editions.

DJ . . . I used to be (in another life ) the Associate Editor of Rock and Minerals magazine, a scholarly journal. I absolutely love gemstones and have gone many, many time to trade shows and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History to see their collections. I simply do NOT know what I should about gemstones . . . only to stay that I have a great appreciation for them. Do you have pics to share? Thanks!

 

[djpop]

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UNFORTUNATELYI DONT IT TAKE EQUIPMENT I DONT HAVE YO DO IT PROPERLY.

 

[CurrentTime]

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djpop wrote:

UNFORTUNATELYI DONT IT TAKE EQUIPMENT I DONT HAVE YO DO IT PROPERLY.

I completely understand! No worries!

There are times when I'm bored, I'll watch JTV or GemsTV or some similar channel, just to watch the gemstone presentations! They're so gorgeous!

 

[Spaceview]

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DJ . . . I used to be (in another life ) the Associate Editor of Rock and Minerals magazine, a scholarly journal. I absolutely love gemstones and have gone many, many time to trade shows and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History to see their collections. I simply do NOT know what I should about gemstones . . .

Rick

I know nothing about gemstones but my father was a registered gemologist and worked many years for Zales and later on in his own jewelery store. He knew many things about gemstones..........he also liked watches and that is how I got started.

 

[CurrentTime]

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Spaceview wrote:

DJ . . . I used to be (in another life ) the Associate Editor of Rock and Minerals magazine, a scholarly journal. I absolutely love gemstones and have gone many, many time to trade shows and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History to see their collections. I simply do NOT know what I should about gemstones . . .

Rick

I know nothing about gemstones but my father was a registered gemologist and worked many years for Zales and later on in his own jewelery store. He knew many things about gemstones..........he also liked watches and that is how I got started.

That's a cool story, Marc. It's so true that we don't often "fall far from the tree".

 

[arnie11]

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I have collected a number of things over my 61 + years. Started with baseball cards. Had a great collection from the fifties through the sixties. I was living in Denver, CO. finishing school there and my parents moved. They discarded my card collection. Unintentional, but it devasated me. Playboy magazines from sixties, seventies, eighties. Lost to my first marriage. Sports figurines. My favorite collection which I gave to my sons. Salvino, Gartland, Hartland (including the originals) and a few others for those of you that are familiar. Also other baseball memorabelia items. Miscellaneous antiques and of course as of the last decade, watches.

 

[djpop]

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arnie11 wrote:

I have collected a number of things over my 61 + years. Started with baseball cards. Had a great collection from the fifties through the sixties. I was living in Denver, CO. finishing school there and my parents moved. They discarded my card collection. Unintentional, but it devasated me. Playboy magazines from sixties, seventies, eighties. Lost to my first marriage. Sports figurines. My favorite collection which I gave to my sons. Salvino, Gartland, Hartland (including the originals) and a few others for those of you that are familiar. Also other baseball memorabelia items. Miscellaneous antiques and of course as of the last decade, watches.

IAM SO SOORY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR LOSSES TO LOSE ANYTHING IS DEVASTATING.

 

[Tattoo Chef]

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over the years I have collected many different things, baseball cards, comic books, wrestling figures, rings, knives and swords, etc, ....

these days its really only watches, unless you count tattoos.....lol

 

[Budabear]

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I've collected things like candles, pens, boxes, bicycles, camera's, high end stereo, CD's, Video, and yes watches. I was really of my pens because I had a lot if very nice ones including vintage and Mont Blanc's.

I still have some of my Mont Blanc's, a couple of MTB's (one rebuilt and one totally built by me), and my watches. The watches are really the only thing I actively collect these days.

 

[WatchSnobJack]

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Man where do I start...lol...Well I collected many things, baseball cards, comics etc...When I started putting some serious money was when I started collecting Godzilla figures from japan by a company called Bandai. I collected thousands and thousands of dollars worth of these figures. They were worth money until sept. 11th hit and when the economy started to crash and ebay killed the value of them also since it made it very easy to find these figures. Then in 1995 I started collecting Hess trucks and always get at least 2 every year...Then my fixation found it way to watches a few years back and the rest is history.

 

[DenFromNM]

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I collect, hats, beanies, coins, skateboards, shoes, and music CD's.

 

[arnie11]

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djpop wrote:

arnie11 wrote:

I have collected a number of things over my 61 + years. Started with baseball cards. Had a great collection from the fifties through the sixties. I was living in Denver, CO. finishing school there and my parents moved. They discarded my card collection. Unintentional, but it devasated me. Playboy magazines from sixties, seventies, eighties. Lost to my first marriage. Sports figurines. My favorite collection which I gave to my sons. Salvino, Gartland, Hartland (including the originals) and a few others for those of you that are familiar. Also other baseball memorabelia items. Miscellaneous antiques and of course as of the last decade, watches.

IAM SO SOORY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR LOSSES TO LOSE ANYTHING IS DEVASTATING.

Ah DJ. No biggie. Trivial stuff in the grand scheme and all that. Would'a been nice to have that stuff, but it's just that. Only ($$$$) stuff, LOL.

 

[Seattle]

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Cool stuff guys! :b