Collectors And Their Collections

[Milo Willamson]

Well for the most time,it is my collection of Golden Age video games,(i.e. Super Nintendo, Game boy games, n64 video games and two n64s, a few ps3s.)

One Dreamcast that is in okay condition, with a few dozen comics I do keep in somewhat mint condition - I also do have an assortment of Happy Meal Toys I noticed in a huge zip lock bag, they probably need to be santized if I want to sell them as well -

So that is my Newest twisted collection, and a lot of unburned albums, I do not know why I have not listen to them just yet, better to have them not scratched up either.

 

[olbriar]

It's fun to collect. When I was a kid, I collected waxed paper drink glasses that had an establishment logo on it. It was a real treat to get a fountain drink back in the day and the glasses were unique. They had no value. Perhaps they might be worth something today. But every drive in had their own glass. And ever fast food had theirs, though there weren't that many fast food places and my chance to get a soda at one was even more rare. I probably had twenty to thirty glasses that I tossed when I moved out of my parents home. It was a respectable but worthless collection that was fun.

 

[Milo Willamson]

We have these glases that we got forever ago, and we use them every day, still I never touch them, because they where my father's glasses.

 

[ozonetrooper]

Clorox bottle far right and Lysol bottle next to it :

 

[olbriar]

Old glass is so cool! Before I started working for my dad, I worked for a pig farmer. He was a drunk but paid a dollar a day to make sure the pigs were fed and their waller was wet and muddy. Besides sipping on the last liquor in his empty bottles and eating the hearts of watermelons and swimming in the creek, we would dig old bottles out of the pile and plink them with our bb guns. I think about all of those old bottles we broke and wonder what sort of value we wasted.

 

[Dannydet]

When I was a kid, I collected comic books and had quite a few, around 300 or so. Mainly Marvel comics, such as Spiderman, Daredevil, the Avengers, etc... 12 cents, then 15,20,25...I stopped collecting when the price hit 30 cents. I still have about 20 of my most cherished ones, the oldest from 1964, the Avengers #13....

 

[olbriar]

My sister and I were into Mad magazines and books. I suspect we were denied the purchase of regular comics.

 

[Dannydet]

I loved Mad magazines

 

[olbriar]

We kept our Mad magazines and books and they were fun to revisit every year or two. I ended up with our collection of Mad books when I left home. I don't know what became of the magazines or the books for that matter. I probably sold them on ebay or there is a chance I gave them to my sister at some point. I'd like to think I didn't just toss them. I still have a respectable collection of the first forty some Nancy Drew Mystery books that were my sister's. She had boys and I had girls so I was gifted them. Being short on entertainment as a child, I read them along with the Hardy Boys. I have a few of the Hardy Boys books as well.

 

[olbriar]

I was just thinking about magazines. I became a life member of the NRA in the late seventies or very early eighties. Let's just call it 1980 to make the math easy. That's 12 issues a year for the past 45 years of the American Rifleman magazine I have received. I suspect they aren't collectable and I have never considered keeping them. Over 500 magazines would make a heck of a fire. 🤣

 

[ozonetrooper]

When I started that hobby, (back in the 80's) I subscribed to the various "gun" books, I left two big boxes of them in my dad's attic and they are prolly still there.

 

[Milo Willamson]

When I was a kid, I collected comic books and had quite a few, around 300 or so. Mainly Marvel comics, such as Spiderman, Daredevil, the Avengers, etc... 12 cents, then 15,20,25...I stopped collecting when the price hit 30 cents. I still have about 20 of my most cherished ones, the oldest from 1964, the Avengers #13....View attachment 178818

I never purchase any of my comics, often as gifts too.
It is a nice emotional value through us.

 

[olbriar]

My buddy that lived down the block always let me read his Sarge cartoon magazines. He was an only child and always had cool stuff. He had the first slot car track I ever saw. He had a pellet rifle. He introduced me to silly putty. His dad had a set of dies to make lead army men. Four different guys in a mold. My buddy was allowed to use the smelting pot and pour lead into the mold. We would set the guys up and plink them with my bb guy and his pellet gun. Once they were disfigured beyond recognition we would melt them down and make new men. It was the greatest thing since sliced bread!!! I bet they don't sell anything like that anymore.