Collections (Freeport, Wayne: sales, to buy, cabinet)

[Maineah]

Do you collect anything? We recently saw a nice liquor collection last week on the Maine forum. Anything folks collect is interesting.
I have a collection of amber. I like amber it's interesting stuff. I have some large pieces and a selection of pieces from all over the world . I have a pretty good selection of bugs in amber too, along with some copal which is young amber, and even some really dark amber from Borneo. I also have a collection of radioactive trinitite. Trinitite is the name given to the glass formed in the desert sand by the million degree heat directly beneath the first atomic explosion test. The first test was named the Trinity test so that's where trinitite got it's name. You can't get it from the site anymore so it is becoming harder and harder to find. I know it's a weird thing to collect but I find it fascinating. I keep it in the cellar in a lead box. It's not highly radioactive but still puts out about 20 millirads per hour so it's easy to tell if it's fake with a geiger counter. What do you collect?

[moughie]

My dh collects guns- all kinds. He also loves books about the history of guns, etc.

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by moughie

My dh collects guns- all kinds. He also loves books about the history of guns, etc.

If I had the money I'd probably have a gun collection too. I have guns but I use them all and none of them are real collectables. A friend of mine brought back a gun from a trip to Phoenix one year. It was a three barrel "Mutiny pistol" he got out there somewhere. He said there were a lot of gun shops and gun shows out that way.

[RMoore007]

I have a couple dozen old radios. Not the cathedral type but from the forties and fifties and a couple in the sixties. I used to buy them at garage sales back in the 70's and 80's for 20 to 50 bucks. I also collect old cameras and clocks not to mention small cars and trucks. I'd take some pictures but they've been boxed up for a couple years now. I keep planning to get all the stuff back to Maine and put in my new cabin that I want to build there. But that might take a little while longer.

I did learn something a long time ago about collecting stuff. If you don't want a large collection, don't tell anyone that you collect anything. You may end up with a lot of stuff. Seems like every birthday and Xmas for 20 years, I was getting something for my collections. And it kind of got out of hand. But I can't bring myself to sell anything. It will probably go to my son some day.

[elston]

We collect Neko; japanese cat figurines. These are part of the pop culture and not rare or art items. Welcome Kitty; Good Luck Kitty etc. Japan is in love with the idea of cats, altho there are many feral cats.

[elston]

Originally Posted by RMoore007

I have a couple dozen old radios. Not the cathedral type but from the forties and fifties and a couple in the sixties. I used to buy them at garage sales back in the 70's and 80's for 20 to 50 bucks. I also collect old cameras and clocks not to mention small cars and trucks. I'd take some pictures but they've been boxed up for a couple years now. I keep planning to get all the stuff back to Maine and put in my new cabin that I want to build there. But that might take a little while longer.

I did learn something a long time ago about collecting stuff. If you don't want a large collection, don't tell anyone that you collect anything. You may end up with a lot of stuff. Seems like every birthday and Xmas for 20 years, I was getting something for my collections. And it kind of got out of hand. But I can't bring myself to sell anything. It will probably go to my son some day.

Your post brings to mind fond memories of sitting in the parlor with my family listening to the radio, in the days before television. We had a large floor model radio with an electric eye. After the supper dishes were done we would all gather and listen to the radio and talk. Mom would be making hand crafted raggedy ann and andys for the church fair, and we would share pop corn and apples and listen to the likes of Fibber McGee; The FBI in Peace and War; and Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons. When the bells began to toll for "The Inner Sanctum" it was past my bedtime and I would be off like a shot--I didn't even want to know "what evil lurks in the hearts of men" or anything else the Shadow knows. Don't let the bell catch me downstairs or hear the cackling laughter of the shadow!!!!!!

[RMoore007]

I have a friend that collects these glass things. Don't know what they are but are supposedly expensive. Must be for aristocrats.

[island mermaid]

RMoore007, I'm hardly an aristocrat but I believe there are a few pieces of Carnival glass in that collection. I know someone that collects it, that's the only reason I could identify it. I like the china cabinet itself.

The only thing I'm collecting lately is .....dust.


Okay, that was pathetic, but it's late!

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by RMoore007

I have a couple dozen old radios. Not the cathedral type but from the forties and fifties and a couple in the sixties. I used to buy them at garage sales back in the 70's and 80's for 20 to 50 bucks. I also collect old cameras and clocks not to mention small cars and trucks. I'd take some pictures but they've been boxed up for a couple years now. I keep planning to get all the stuff back to Maine and put in my new cabin that I want to build there. But that might take a little while longer.

I did learn something a long time ago about collecting stuff. If you don't want a large collection, don't tell anyone that you collect anything. You may end up with a lot of stuff. Seems like every birthday and Xmas for 20 years, I was getting something for my collections. And it kind of got out of hand. But I can't bring myself to sell anything. It will probably go to my son some day.

I have about 20 tube radios too. I just thought they were cool. Some of them work , most of them don't. Mine, like yours are boxed and put away. I don't have any catalin plastic ones worth $5000 or anything but I have one old cathedral that needs some tlc from water damage and an old Atwater Kent console type radio from the thirtys that actually works! I also collected just the tubes for a while and I must have easily 10,000 of them in the barn. Unfortunately about 90% are worthless old TV tubes. As you said a great many of the tubes made their way here by word of mouth.....there's this guy in Freeport that collects them! Someday I'll set up a display of my amber ,trinitite and old tubes, where, I don't know.

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by RMoore007

I have a friend that collects these glass things. Don't know what they are but are supposedly expensive. Must be for aristocrats.

Love the glass!