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so I'm curious - if stamp collecting is NOT your main interest as far as collecting, what is??
And, if it IS your main interest, do you have a second? And what might that be??
For me personally, its Detroit Tigers baseball cards. I have Tiger players cards as far back as 1951 Bowman.
For each year set of cards, I have a pocket schedule and yearbook from that year as well.
One of my prized possessions is the 1984 yearbook - the year the Tigers won the World Series; the cover is autographed by nearly every Tiger team member AND manager Sparky Anderson AND Tigers radio announcer Ernie Harwell.
(oh, yeah - also have a baseball collection; kinda ties in with my love of the game and the cards
)I used to be a vinyl audiophile, but recently sold the majority of my collection (still have a handful of my all-time favorite vinyl, though!)
Oh...and I also kept all my Elvis vinyl.
So how 'bout it?
Randy
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Outside of stamps, my primary hobby is model railroading.
I also collect (not in any particular order other than how I remembered them):
- movies
- old time radio shows
- radio DJ air checks
- Peanuts memorabilia (not serious, though)
- music (most of my vinyl is gone too)
- television documentaries
- New York Giants stuff
- old video games (Colecovision, Atari, Starpath Supercharger)
I used to collect beer memorabilia, but most of that is gone.
No wonder I have no room to move around in my house!
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I also have some interest on coins and foreign bills, plus I enjoy looking at the heavens with my Celestron, like to read anything related to herpetology as well as watch documentaries, but stamp collecting takes up most of my free time.
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U.S. Stamp collecting primarily, but a fairly extensive U.S. coin collection.
I also have an OFEC (One from Every Country) stamp collection AND coin collection, but the coin collection is limited to a specific year. I have one topical stamp collection (for reasons I am still unsure of), but no topical coin collection (yet).
Everything else would be considered a memento, like collecting the smallest paper currency from each country I visit.
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left-handed mustache mugs and single malts, although the latter seems to diminish, rather than grow
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My collection of Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks (an annual sporting handbook) goes back to 1937. Complete runs from 1864 are rare and sell for six-figure sums. I have facsimiles from 1864-77, but not much chance of adding to the 80 volumes on my shelves - they tend to get very expensive from the early thirties back to the beginning of the century.
Theatre programmes from the mid-sixties onwards, the bulk of them from 1968-1980, plus a few cinema programmes from the days when they sold those at London premieres.
A small, though prized collection of American 'underground' comics from the 1960s and 70s, including a complete run of Zap Comix.
I don't think my ever-expanding pile of books, CDs and DVDs counts as a collection, any more than the four boxes of LPs in the cupboard under the stairs, the VHS tapes of TV documentaries and series, or even the hundreds of competently painted and based 25mm Anglo-Saxon wargames figures. A collection assumes some sort of classifying, ordering, and seeking out rare items to fill gaps, rather than a mere accumulation of purchases. But someone's going to have a headache sorting that lot out when the time comes!
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I've posted some of my knife collection in another thread, but I also collect a few other things. Native American artifacts, razors and shaving items, tobacco and bandage tins, White Buffalo figurines and BSA ephemera are key collections. Several other minor collections that I add to only when I happen across a piece that fits. John Wayne memorabilia, tin toys, vinyl records and black light posters, just to mention a few.
As to other hobbies, I took up guitar several years ago and try to play at least a few hours every week and whittling/wood carving sort of came as a natural progression to knife collecting, although, I'm not very good at it.
Hopefully, retirement in a few years, will enhance some of these. But, time will tell.
WB
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Personally, stamp and postal history collecting is my greatest collecting passion.
I collect coins of the US and Panama and have a smattering of worldwide coins as well, just for fun. For the US my main goal was a 20th century type set which is complete except for gold coins which I should have bought in the 80's when gold was $300 an ounce. Hindsight is 20/20.
I have a pretty big collection of 7th Sea CCG cards (though not seeking any more at this time).
I have a collection, collected with my mother of semiprecious gems (mostly quartz-based) including agates, chalcedonies, plasma, bloodstone, onyx, petrified wood, petrified coral and one piece that I think is petrified sponge. We collected it in Panama and brought about 2 tons of material with us to the US. One day I will have the time to be a lapidary and work on them.
When my sister and I were kids we used to tag along with our mother who had a passion for collecting seashells. I spent a lot of time beachcombing and picked up a lot of shells.
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Stamps are my main collection, but I also collect vinyl records (a much smaller collection that what I had prior to a cross-provincial move some 15 years ago).
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I have several collecting interests outside of stamps. Randy, I too am a Detroit fan and collector. My prized possessions are an Al Kaline signed ball and this 1934 Goudey Charley Gehringer (Michigan born, Michigan bred, and a Michigan baseball hero).
I also collect vintage paperbacks, one of my favorites being this British one:
One of my favorite modern books is this one featuring cover girl Deborah Harry, of the band Blondie, five years before they broke out with their first album.
But my main love, along with stamps, is comic books. I am working on completing a run of Action Comics from the present back through the 12-cent issues of my youth. I have a few issues going even further back, including this one from 1949:
and another of my favorites is this 100th issue of Superman, from 1955:
And that's not to mention record albums . . .
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Ted -
....a man after my own heart!
(Don't tell my wife - 
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Absolutely love the Charlie Gehringer card!
I don't have any Goudey cards yet, but I do have quite a few of the early Bowman's.
Love the Deborah Harry book - never saw that one before!
Thanks for the image post, Ted!
Randy
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Hi everyone;
I like to collect rare and old out-of-print books on nautical topics, especially how to construct wooden model ships.
My first build will probably be a "Skipjsck, or maybe a "Bugeye". These purpose-built ships were 30-60 or more feet long, and were designed for speed in shallow waters. They were used for oyster dredging, in the Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland and also used near Virginia coastal waters as well.
They were a shallow draft ship (2½ - 5½ feet), designed to harvest oysters from the shallow Atlantic oyster beds.
I also collect cookbooks, very old books about engineering and machine technology and early automation. In addition I like to collect recordings of 1930s & 1940s big band type music, and classic jazz recordings,
But stamps still remain my No.1 collecting interest tho....
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I collect Butterflies...............
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Stamps are my main collection, but in the past few years I've been collecting Panini football (soccer) stickers when I can find them. It's rare to find them in Canada but I do what I can.
I completed the 2014 World Cup album and pretty much completed the 2015 Women's World Cup set. When I was in Europe this spring I carried an album with me and bought packs for the Euro 2016 set throughout France and Italy but came home before I could fill it. I should probably get a box via Ebay but that seems like cheating. 
Oddly enough, the Panini stickers got me back to having fun with my stamp collection. I got such a kick out of filling spaces that I got back working on my simplified WW stamp collection. Sorting stamps and filling spaces is where I get my kicks; I'm not one for flyspecking I guess.
Mark
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Bobgggg - butterflies? Alive, dead, or just on paper like stamps or photographs? They are fascinating and beautiful creatures for sure.
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Bobgggg, I collect Butterflies as well.
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A few threads here have listed other areas of collectibles;
so I'm curious - if stamp collecting is NOT your main interest as far as collecting, what is??
And, if it IS your main interest, do you have a second? And what might that be??
For me personally, its Detroit Tigers baseball cards. I have Tiger players cards as far back as 1951 Bowman.
For each year set of cards, I have a pocket schedule and yearbook from that year as well.
One of my prized possessions is the 1984 yearbook - the year the Tigers won the World Series; the cover is autographed by nearly every Tiger team member AND manager Sparky Anderson AND Tigers radio announcer Ernie Harwell.
(oh, yeah - also have a baseball collection; kinda ties in with my love of the game and the cards )
I used to be a vinyl audiophile, but recently sold the majority of my collection (still have a handful of my all-time favorite vinyl, though!)
Oh...and I also kept all my Elvis vinyl.
So how 'bout it?
Randy
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re: OTHER COLLECTIONS??
Outside of stamps, my primary hobby is model railroading.
I also collect (not in any particular order other than how I remembered them):
- movies
- old time radio shows
- radio DJ air checks
- Peanuts memorabilia (not serious, though)
- music (most of my vinyl is gone too)
- television documentaries
- New York Giants stuff
- old video games (Colecovision, Atari, Starpath Supercharger)
I used to collect beer memorabilia, but most of that is gone.
No wonder I have no room to move around in my house!
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I also have some interest on coins and foreign bills, plus I enjoy looking at the heavens with my Celestron, like to read anything related to herpetology as well as watch documentaries, but stamp collecting takes up most of my free time.
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U.S. Stamp collecting primarily, but a fairly extensive U.S. coin collection.
I also have an OFEC (One from Every Country) stamp collection AND coin collection, but the coin collection is limited to a specific year. I have one topical stamp collection (for reasons I am still unsure of), but no topical coin collection (yet).
Everything else would be considered a memento, like collecting the smallest paper currency from each country I visit.
Lars
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left-handed mustache mugs and single malts, although the latter seems to diminish, rather than grow
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My collection of Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks (an annual sporting handbook) goes back to 1937. Complete runs from 1864 are rare and sell for six-figure sums. I have facsimiles from 1864-77, but not much chance of adding to the 80 volumes on my shelves - they tend to get very expensive from the early thirties back to the beginning of the century.
Theatre programmes from the mid-sixties onwards, the bulk of them from 1968-1980, plus a few cinema programmes from the days when they sold those at London premieres.
A small, though prized collection of American 'underground' comics from the 1960s and 70s, including a complete run of Zap Comix.
I don't think my ever-expanding pile of books, CDs and DVDs counts as a collection, any more than the four boxes of LPs in the cupboard under the stairs, the VHS tapes of TV documentaries and series, or even the hundreds of competently painted and based 25mm Anglo-Saxon wargames figures. A collection assumes some sort of classifying, ordering, and seeking out rare items to fill gaps, rather than a mere accumulation of purchases. But someone's going to have a headache sorting that lot out when the time comes!
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I've posted some of my knife collection in another thread, but I also collect a few other things. Native American artifacts, razors and shaving items, tobacco and bandage tins, White Buffalo figurines and BSA ephemera are key collections. Several other minor collections that I add to only when I happen across a piece that fits. John Wayne memorabilia, tin toys, vinyl records and black light posters, just to mention a few.
As to other hobbies, I took up guitar several years ago and try to play at least a few hours every week and whittling/wood carving sort of came as a natural progression to knife collecting, although, I'm not very good at it.
Hopefully, retirement in a few years, will enhance some of these. But, time will tell.
WB
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re: OTHER COLLECTIONS??
Personally, stamp and postal history collecting is my greatest collecting passion.
I collect coins of the US and Panama and have a smattering of worldwide coins as well, just for fun. For the US my main goal was a 20th century type set which is complete except for gold coins which I should have bought in the 80's when gold was $300 an ounce. Hindsight is 20/20.
I have a pretty big collection of 7th Sea CCG cards (though not seeking any more at this time).
I have a collection, collected with my mother of semiprecious gems (mostly quartz-based) including agates, chalcedonies, plasma, bloodstone, onyx, petrified wood, petrified coral and one piece that I think is petrified sponge. We collected it in Panama and brought about 2 tons of material with us to the US. One day I will have the time to be a lapidary and work on them.
When my sister and I were kids we used to tag along with our mother who had a passion for collecting seashells. I spent a lot of time beachcombing and picked up a lot of shells.
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Stamps are my main collection, but I also collect vinyl records (a much smaller collection that what I had prior to a cross-provincial move some 15 years ago).
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I have several collecting interests outside of stamps. Randy, I too am a Detroit fan and collector. My prized possessions are an Al Kaline signed ball and this 1934 Goudey Charley Gehringer (Michigan born, Michigan bred, and a Michigan baseball hero).
I also collect vintage paperbacks, one of my favorites being this British one:
One of my favorite modern books is this one featuring cover girl Deborah Harry, of the band Blondie, five years before they broke out with their first album.
But my main love, along with stamps, is comic books. I am working on completing a run of Action Comics from the present back through the 12-cent issues of my youth. I have a few issues going even further back, including this one from 1949:
and another of my favorites is this 100th issue of Superman, from 1955:
And that's not to mention record albums . . .
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Ted -
....a man after my own heart!
(Don't tell my wife - )
Absolutely love the Charlie Gehringer card!
I don't have any Goudey cards yet, but I do have quite a few of the early Bowman's.
Love the Deborah Harry book - never saw that one before!
Thanks for the image post, Ted!
Randy
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Hi everyone;
I like to collect rare and old out-of-print books on nautical topics, especially how to construct wooden model ships.
My first build will probably be a "Skipjsck, or maybe a "Bugeye". These purpose-built ships were 30-60 or more feet long, and were designed for speed in shallow waters. They were used for oyster dredging, in the Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland and also used near Virginia coastal waters as well.
They were a shallow draft ship (2½ - 5½ feet), designed to harvest oysters from the shallow Atlantic oyster beds.
I also collect cookbooks, very old books about engineering and machine technology and early automation. In addition I like to collect recordings of 1930s & 1940s big band type music, and classic jazz recordings,
But stamps still remain my No.1 collecting interest tho....
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I collect Butterflies...............
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Stamps are my main collection, but in the past few years I've been collecting Panini football (soccer) stickers when I can find them. It's rare to find them in Canada but I do what I can.
I completed the 2014 World Cup album and pretty much completed the 2015 Women's World Cup set. When I was in Europe this spring I carried an album with me and bought packs for the Euro 2016 set throughout France and Italy but came home before I could fill it. I should probably get a box via Ebay but that seems like cheating.
Oddly enough, the Panini stickers got me back to having fun with my stamp collection. I got such a kick out of filling spaces that I got back working on my simplified WW stamp collection. Sorting stamps and filling spaces is where I get my kicks; I'm not one for flyspecking I guess.
Mark
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Bobgggg - butterflies? Alive, dead, or just on paper like stamps or photographs? They are fascinating and beautiful creatures for sure.
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Bobgggg, I collect Butterflies as well.
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