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Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
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Question #1
What are your "other" hobbies?
My hobbies are:
- Retro computer programming
- Model building/Model rocketry
- Weight lifting
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Question #2
What hobby would you like to try?
I'd like to try (or do more of):
- Crystal Radio Designing
- Competitive Archery/Air Pistol
- Rock Climbing
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What an interesting side issue from our main focus. Johnny, you speak from the perspective of vigorous health, youth still on your side, and an approach with an eye upon physicality. Wonderful my friend, and more power to you for the exploration.
I wonder if I may raise a different perspective, without taking away from your original direction? I come from a different time period, and the blush of youth and strength are no longer my companions. Therefore I'd like to raise the question of what new skills/gifts might one have received in the winter of one's life?
Living by myself now, in a rural setting in the backwoods, I have come to view nature and connectedness to the Great Spirit in a way different than before. And in my 87th year of life I have been given a new gift/skill totally unexpected, much appreciated and one I have come to understand that is also present in all of us. Since this may take us away from your original direction I'll stop here with the invitation to all for a rather lengthy discussion should anyone else be interested.
Best,
Dan C.
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Dan,
At 87 years young you might get a hall pass from the rock climbing but your communication skills and "turn of phrase" are better than most of any age. I'm not sure if this is what youre referring to specifically but I myself over the last few years have been drawn more to solitary / more natural pursuits.
JR:
Q1: U.S. Numismatics. I have a U.S. type set, Indian Head cents, Lincoln cents, some large type notes, broken bank notes, Fractional Currency and depression script.
I have an interest in antique tin plate toys. Older Matchbox cars and antique candy containers.
I love cooking all types of food and cooking and would love to one day take a French cooking class.
My newest pursuit has emerged as yard work and gardening. I used to hate it but I've been staying home alot more lately and I have enjoyed planting and working with various plants and flowers and a couple of fruit trees on my property. Its rewarding and relaxing.
Q2: I have a two year old golden retriever who is gorgeous and if I may say so myself, quite smart and well behaved. I work with him on obedience training most days even for just a few minutes and hes gotten quite responsive. I'm not quite sure how to get started but I would love to show him competitively. Hes fully AKC documented and hes been left "intact" for just this very reason. I would LOVE to have a blue ribbon to show off with his picture above my fire place mantle!
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Hi Ernie,
"My newest pursuit has emerged as yard work and gardening. I used to hate it but I've been staying home a lot more lately and I have enjoyed planting and working with various plants and flowers and a couple of fruit trees on my property. Its rewarding and relaxing."
I know just what you mean! I have a much higher tolerance for these things and have even talked to my wife about a possible garden (gasp, never in the past!). Since we have moved into town and our yard is WAY smaller I enjoy these things more than when we had acres to take care of out in the country, LOL!
"Q2: I have a two year old golden retriever who is gorgeous and if I may say so myself, quite smart and well behaved. I work with him on obedience training most days even for just a few minutes and hes gotten quite responsive. I'm not quite sure how to get started but I would love to show him competitively. Hes fully AKC documented and hes been left "intact" for just this very reason. I would LOVE to have a blue ribbon to show off with his picture above my fire place mantle!"
I also can relate in a bit of and "off" way, as we used to competitively show dairy goats and as in showing anything, there is always pride in the achievement, competitiveness and fun!
JR
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"....your communication skills and "turn of phrase" are better than most of any age. I'm not sure if this is what you're referring to specifically ...."
Thank you for the kudo's, but that is not what I was referring to. Your response to JohnnyR. was right on target and informative. Good for you, too.
JR-Old adage-'never put in a garden bigger than your wife can take care of.'-Now that's wisdom of the ages!!
Best,
Dan C.
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Other Hobbies: I was an antique dealer for more than 30 years which means I am not just a stamp collector, I collect many other things: several types of early glassware, silver age Marvel Comics, Victorian child's plates and mugs, early porcelain teapots and platters, early oil lamps, Torquay pottery, DVD sets for older TV series, etc.
Future Hobbies: I have started collecting items from the 1950 - 1970 era, when I grew up (sort of!). I am also trying to finish writing a book on the history of baseball in the area of Nova Scotia I grew up - Queen's County. The research and writing is great fun and I think I'd like to continue with a different project when/if this one ever gets finished. I have a bad hip so rock climbing is probably out!
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LOL!
I historically, categorically HATE gardening, because of a massive, "slave, death-camp garden" that my parents had when I was a youth, where I had to labor for hours (probably minutes!) a day in the hot sun! At least that is how I remember it! 
Nowadays I enjoy the time with my wife! Times have changed! 
But that quote is priceless and one that I will strictly adhere to! 
JR
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OK here are my answers.
Q1. Family History, my tree (small forest) has some 4000+ individuals. Some lines back to 1600's.
Gardens and natural history. I worked as a gardener in Kensington Gardens for a few years.
I also accumulate Cigarette/trade cards with an accent on wildlife.
Q2. Nature photography, but hard to justify the expense of more professional gear.
Travel and seeing the more wonderful parts of the North American land mass.
Lazing in a deckchair on a warm summers day, listening to the gentle wash of the waves.
As an afterthought I wish I could have written some decent poetry or a book such as The Wind in the Willows.
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sheepshanks:
Cigarette trade cards are really neat. There is a whole host of subjects. That's cool
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Ernie, some of them are very expensive, even more modern ones, such as from the 60's, The Beatles from A & B.C. Gum sell for $100's. Early Ginter sets sell in the 1000's. Individual cards especially the first and last in a set command quite high prices.
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Vic,
I hear ya. There is a whole slew of collecting motifs. Dog breeds, classic cars, sports heroes the list of endless. It would seem that they were included in cigarette packs, cigars, pipe tobacco etc.. Marketing people have always been smart. They know people are collectors by nature. Sweet Corporal is a biggie. Seems like I may have some of the most common ones somewhere.
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I have a full pack of Black Cat cigarettes with yellow background and a black cat with the revenue stamp intact. My wife was very much into horses and cats - would you believe a collection of "black cat good luck postcards"?
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The hobbies described all sound wonderful-would it be possible to include photo examples as well?
Thanks,
Dan C.
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Ok...I can provide a photo but it's not too terribly dramatic. Master Gardners, chime in...
So I have a dog and he has completely destroyed my lawn with a couple of high traffic zones. In this picture you can see about 10 dwarf mondo grass plugs that i planted. I'm told they will fill in nice in a couple of years. We shall see. I keep them watered.
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1- Numismatics - I have been planning on putting together a 20th century type set, and I am only missing a few I think. I also on rare occasion go metal detecting. I also like to fish. I play oddball computer games.
2- If I had the space I would totally work on a train set. I am teaching myself to program in Javascript so that I can put together my own website someday. It has been a while since I have learned a new programming language.
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smauggie-"I also on rare occasion go metal detecting."
Can you also detect non-ferrous objects?
Dan C.
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Sheepshanks,
"Lazing in a deckchair on a warm summers day, listening to the gentle wash of the waves."
Oh, HECK yeah!!!!
"As an afterthought I wish I could have written some decent poetry or a book such as The Wind in the Willows."
No time like the present?
JR
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Hi Smauggie,
We could probably hang out!
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I also on rare occasion go metal detecting. I also like to fish. I play oddball computer games."
Oh YEAH! Always wanted to metal detect! Waiting for when I grow up, LOL!
"I am teaching myself to program in Javascript so that I can put together my own website someday. It has been a while since I have learned a new programming language. "
I LOVE computer programming! But only as a hobby.
JR
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Johnny, My attempts at poetry are pretty weak and the only story I have written was for lady from the States who was in England and used to walk around Kensington Gardens with her son in a stroller. He had a little soft toy snowman that hung on his stroller but got lost one day. The story was of the snowman getting back to Charlie.
Made sense to me, not sure it would to anyone else.
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Interesting topic, activities and collections of things ….. and I guess the term “hobby” is generally thought of as just that …..
My husband spent almost 20 years working in disaster assistance for the Small Business Administration. From Northridge to 911, from the hollers in West Virginia to a mountain top overlooking Monterrey. You get the picture.
Does he have hobbies – sure – stamps, postal history, ephemera, antique cars, woodworking, etc. They come and go – those that revolve around “things” are becoming less and less important to him. His job changed him - he now spends a lot more time in thinking about the interesting people he met along the way and how each of them added to his appreciation of life as well as finding more interesting people along the way. Talk with strangers – you will always learn something.
4 hours spent on a lazy afternoon with a Shaman and his pet wolf (mountaintop overlooking Monterrey), a married couple living in the shadow of Mt Lassen who were lawyers in San Francisco, now living on one of those 5 acre plots sold after WW
II - 18 miles down a dirt road in an 8x30 trailer with 12V power for their tiny TV and a propane refrigerator. An old beat up pickup truck replacing the Cadillacs anf Lincolns but happy.
Sitting at a table talking to people on the wrong side of Woodward Avenue in Detroit and having them ask him to pray with them.. The surreal feelings in seeing 911 for the first time, still smoldering and spending time in Point Pleasant WV for 3 days set up under Silver Bridge. Their office in Niagara Falls was adjacent to the falls – you can sit staring at them and get lost in time and space. It is as feeling that all sacred places have...
So many more but I have probably bored most of you to death… the bottom line is that the older we get the less important things have become in our life and the more important living a simple life have become. Don’t know how many are familiar with Helen and Scott Nearing ( Mother Earth News c.1970) – if you are you get the picture. Your perspective changes. Life becomes your hobby …. I’ll quit before I get too far behind.and if I have veered off course too far go ahead and delete – it won’t hurt my feelings and might save some embarrassment.
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Other Hobbies;
- my Detroit Tigers baseball card collection, which spans 1935 to present;
- my baseball collection;
A Future Hobby;
working on my '70 Nova....if I ever find the one I want!
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I am deep back into board wargames for the last year, specifically solitaire versions. Social distancing is no challenge here: stamps and solitaire board games have me stretching to make time for family contacts.
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Webpaper-I'd personally like to hear more about "4 hours spent on a lazy afternoon with a Shaman and his pet wolf (mountaintop overlooking Monterrey)" (Perhaps contact me off this platform so we don't interfere with the thread.)
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Dan C.
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Hi Dani,
Happy to contact you off platform - it will probably be a couple of days
Carol
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I have always wanted to play B17 - Queen of the skies, rjan. Is that one you play?
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I'm a private pilot and fly my 1947 Ercoupe (the airplane in the avatar at left) as frequently as I can.
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Webpaper said that I can identify with:
"Does he have hobbies – sure – stamps, postal history, ephemera, antique cars, woodworking, etc. They come and go – those that revolve around “things” are becoming less and less important to him."
I have followed that same thought process. When we bought our old house (1939 vintage) in '76, I began my long love affair with landscaping. The massively overgrown 3/4 acres made it a necessity, but it became an obsession and then love affair that continues to this day. In the process, I've shared scores of perennials and tree seedlings with neighbors, friends and family. It is something I do for my own benefit and to help others, including future generations. Hopefully, a few of the trees the squirrels and I have planted will still be here 200 years from now.
Along the way, my interest in collecting stamps faded, but not my interest in philately. I began writing articles for publication. I began designing album pages and found I enjoyed sharing those designs more than I liked collecting the stamps. I began buying nice stamps to scan and create prints from and then resold those stamps to buy more. This evolved into a digital collection I could share online with others.
I inherited a ton of my families' genealogy material 20 years ago. I have spent a lot of time digitizing and sharing images with descriptions online. In a roundabout way, that effort also led to my meeting a handful of very active collectors of early 20th century Indiana postcards. They had some extraordinary collections with numerous rare postcard scenes. I began digitizing their collections in order to share those images online with the public and to create prints from the very best postcard images. My interest in that period in history grew and I began writing lengthy descriptions of many of those postcards based on the vast amount of research material that is now available online.
Without realizing it at first, I was clearly more interested in developing images and information I could share with others. I retained an interest in philately, but lost interest in collecting the stamps themselves. I never developed an interest in collecting postcards, but love the history they convey. I've produced a few hundred family genealogy images, several thousand stamp images and over 9000 early 20th century Indiana postcard images in the past 20 years or so. It's been a very rewarding century so far!!!!
This was the front yard in 2015. Unfortunately, this is the best photo I'll ever take of that scene. The two largest trees right of center had to be removed recently for safety reasons and a couple of other smaller trees have died. I don't have enough years remaining at this house to come close to restoring what I (and Mother Nature) spent so many years creating. I'll start that process, but the next owner or two will need to carry on in my stead.
Tom
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Tom, your descriptions are vivid and clear. As an author, writer,historian and face of the family you do yourself/friends/family proud. Your feel for nature though, in the guise of landscaping, speaks well and true to me. Thanks for the pictures, in words and in photo.
Respect,
Dan C.
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Q1: US Numismatics. Type set only missing $10 and $20 gold coins (the big shineys). Lincoln cents complete (except I used a 1922 weak D instead of a totally missing mint mark - so far), all Jefferson nickles, Roosevelt dimes, Washington quarters, and Franklin halves from the beginning, Mint Sets from 1959, Proof Sets from 1968, and a few extras missing from the mint and proof sets (like the recent S mint and W mint quarters).
I also have a "One From Every Country" coin collection, but I limited it to a particular era (circa 1980).
Q2: What hobby would I like to try? I don't know. Competitive tanning with the Swedish Bikini Team? As good as answer as any, I suppose. I have a few bucket list items like an Alaskan Cruise and visiting the Pyramids in Egypt, but I can't think of any hobbies I would want to add.
I would, however, like to get RID of any obligation for yard work!
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Q1. An intellectual interest in gardening. I don't do too much of the work I'm afraid.
Q2. I keep looking at YouTube programs on plastic kit modelling. I will probably never get round to it although my head mounted magnifier would take care of my failing eyesight. It certainly works wonders for my stamp collecting. Of course my long planned dystopian novel will hopefully one day happen, but seeing it was about a pandemic it has been overtaken by real events.
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Hi DannyS,
" I keep looking at YouTube programs on plastic kit modelling."
This is a very fun hobby as well! I like to mainly build ships!
JR
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Aside from stamps and postal history, many folks here know I’m a scale model car builder. I’m actually much more involved in this hobby than stamps. I chair a national annual event.
I have always been interested in old cars and have owned a bunch of them in the past. I’ve thought that in my retirement I’d like to have one nice car (vs all the ones I’ve owned needing tons of work) maybe a 1930s traditional rod.
I don’t have any aspirations for future hobbies. But I am very interested in history and everything around me. In the spirit that if you have three or more of an item, it’s a collection then I’m very susceptible!
Here’s my current model project that I’m building to keep busy during captivity.
And when hobbies collide... I’m finishing up on an East German Trabant postal van. When researching the Trabant kit I came across some photos of the mail truck so I just had to do it. Danbury Mint produced very nice diecast vehicles of US postal vehicles. I have their 1930s Ford and later postal Jeep.
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Tom,
Love the weathering on that old Chevy pick up! Is that a plastic kit? It sure looks like rusty steel to me.
Ernie
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Thanks Ernie!
Yes it’s white plastic. I love to do the weathering.
It’s several layers.. primer red, primer gray, flat black and then two coats of shiny green. I wet sand carefully to get the layer effect. Then highlights with chalk and dull clear.
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Here's my other plastic model hobby venture.
1/72 (20mm) mini figures! Fun!
This one has a chip unfortunately on gun barrel (been through a "war" it seems!)
I also like 15mm figures as well! (now those are SMALL!)
JR
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Just now, I'm trying my hand at making cardboard kit models. I bought a model of a steam loco a few years ago while I was still working and gave up after a couple of weeks - it was very complicated and I just didn't have the time. Now I'm retired, and with the lockdown, I'm trying again. This time it's a 1930 Bugatti Royal 1930, 1:24. Every step of the way affects a lot of the subsequent steps. I made a small error with the chassis, and as a result the roof piece didn't fit. So it looks like a Bugatti front half that's been welded to the back of a Ford Capri. I'm carrying on though, hoping to gain skill and experience so the next kit comes out better.
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Strider,
That kit sounds very intriguing!
I had never even heard of those kinds of kits.
They sound quite challenging.
JR
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Hi Johnny
They are indeed! You need patience, concentration and the right glue! The result can be really delightful, or an embarrassment, depending on if you get it right.
Take a look at the Marcle Models website - www.marcle.co.uk - you'll see my Bugatti Royale (now Bugatti Capri) in the catalogue. There must be equivalent dealers in US selling this sort of stuff. Railway modellers use this for their buildings and backgrounds, I think.
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Hi Strider,
"The result can be really delightful, or an embarrassment,"
LOL! I love it! This is exactly how I feel about plastic models! My results have went both ways. Delightful AND embarrassing at different times.
Thanks!
JR
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Hi all,
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Question #1
What are your "other" hobbies?
My hobbies are:
- Retro computer programming
- Model building/Model rocketry
- Weight lifting
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Question #2
What hobby would you like to try?
I'd like to try (or do more of):
- Crystal Radio Designing
- Competitive Archery/Air Pistol
- Rock Climbing
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What an interesting side issue from our main focus. Johnny, you speak from the perspective of vigorous health, youth still on your side, and an approach with an eye upon physicality. Wonderful my friend, and more power to you for the exploration.
I wonder if I may raise a different perspective, without taking away from your original direction? I come from a different time period, and the blush of youth and strength are no longer my companions. Therefore I'd like to raise the question of what new skills/gifts might one have received in the winter of one's life?
Living by myself now, in a rural setting in the backwoods, I have come to view nature and connectedness to the Great Spirit in a way different than before. And in my 87th year of life I have been given a new gift/skill totally unexpected, much appreciated and one I have come to understand that is also present in all of us. Since this may take us away from your original direction I'll stop here with the invitation to all for a rather lengthy discussion should anyone else be interested.
Best,
Dan C.
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Dan,
At 87 years young you might get a hall pass from the rock climbing but your communication skills and "turn of phrase" are better than most of any age. I'm not sure if this is what youre referring to specifically but I myself over the last few years have been drawn more to solitary / more natural pursuits.
JR:
Q1: U.S. Numismatics. I have a U.S. type set, Indian Head cents, Lincoln cents, some large type notes, broken bank notes, Fractional Currency and depression script.
I have an interest in antique tin plate toys. Older Matchbox cars and antique candy containers.
I love cooking all types of food and cooking and would love to one day take a French cooking class.
My newest pursuit has emerged as yard work and gardening. I used to hate it but I've been staying home alot more lately and I have enjoyed planting and working with various plants and flowers and a couple of fruit trees on my property. Its rewarding and relaxing.
Q2: I have a two year old golden retriever who is gorgeous and if I may say so myself, quite smart and well behaved. I work with him on obedience training most days even for just a few minutes and hes gotten quite responsive. I'm not quite sure how to get started but I would love to show him competitively. Hes fully AKC documented and hes been left "intact" for just this very reason. I would LOVE to have a blue ribbon to show off with his picture above my fire place mantle!
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Hi Ernie,
"My newest pursuit has emerged as yard work and gardening. I used to hate it but I've been staying home a lot more lately and I have enjoyed planting and working with various plants and flowers and a couple of fruit trees on my property. Its rewarding and relaxing."
I know just what you mean! I have a much higher tolerance for these things and have even talked to my wife about a possible garden (gasp, never in the past!). Since we have moved into town and our yard is WAY smaller I enjoy these things more than when we had acres to take care of out in the country, LOL!
"Q2: I have a two year old golden retriever who is gorgeous and if I may say so myself, quite smart and well behaved. I work with him on obedience training most days even for just a few minutes and hes gotten quite responsive. I'm not quite sure how to get started but I would love to show him competitively. Hes fully AKC documented and hes been left "intact" for just this very reason. I would LOVE to have a blue ribbon to show off with his picture above my fire place mantle!"
I also can relate in a bit of and "off" way, as we used to competitively show dairy goats and as in showing anything, there is always pride in the achievement, competitiveness and fun!
JR
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"....your communication skills and "turn of phrase" are better than most of any age. I'm not sure if this is what you're referring to specifically ...."
Thank you for the kudo's, but that is not what I was referring to. Your response to JohnnyR. was right on target and informative. Good for you, too.
JR-Old adage-'never put in a garden bigger than your wife can take care of.'-Now that's wisdom of the ages!!
Best,
Dan C.
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Other Hobbies: I was an antique dealer for more than 30 years which means I am not just a stamp collector, I collect many other things: several types of early glassware, silver age Marvel Comics, Victorian child's plates and mugs, early porcelain teapots and platters, early oil lamps, Torquay pottery, DVD sets for older TV series, etc.
Future Hobbies: I have started collecting items from the 1950 - 1970 era, when I grew up (sort of!). I am also trying to finish writing a book on the history of baseball in the area of Nova Scotia I grew up - Queen's County. The research and writing is great fun and I think I'd like to continue with a different project when/if this one ever gets finished. I have a bad hip so rock climbing is probably out!
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LOL!
I historically, categorically HATE gardening, because of a massive, "slave, death-camp garden" that my parents had when I was a youth, where I had to labor for hours (probably minutes!) a day in the hot sun! At least that is how I remember it!
Nowadays I enjoy the time with my wife! Times have changed!
But that quote is priceless and one that I will strictly adhere to!
JR
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OK here are my answers.
Q1. Family History, my tree (small forest) has some 4000+ individuals. Some lines back to 1600's.
Gardens and natural history. I worked as a gardener in Kensington Gardens for a few years.
I also accumulate Cigarette/trade cards with an accent on wildlife.
Q2. Nature photography, but hard to justify the expense of more professional gear.
Travel and seeing the more wonderful parts of the North American land mass.
Lazing in a deckchair on a warm summers day, listening to the gentle wash of the waves.
As an afterthought I wish I could have written some decent poetry or a book such as The Wind in the Willows.
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sheepshanks:
Cigarette trade cards are really neat. There is a whole host of subjects. That's cool
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Ernie, some of them are very expensive, even more modern ones, such as from the 60's, The Beatles from A & B.C. Gum sell for $100's. Early Ginter sets sell in the 1000's. Individual cards especially the first and last in a set command quite high prices.
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Vic,
I hear ya. There is a whole slew of collecting motifs. Dog breeds, classic cars, sports heroes the list of endless. It would seem that they were included in cigarette packs, cigars, pipe tobacco etc.. Marketing people have always been smart. They know people are collectors by nature. Sweet Corporal is a biggie. Seems like I may have some of the most common ones somewhere.
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I have a full pack of Black Cat cigarettes with yellow background and a black cat with the revenue stamp intact. My wife was very much into horses and cats - would you believe a collection of "black cat good luck postcards"?
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The hobbies described all sound wonderful-would it be possible to include photo examples as well?
Thanks,
Dan C.
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Ok...I can provide a photo but it's not too terribly dramatic. Master Gardners, chime in...
So I have a dog and he has completely destroyed my lawn with a couple of high traffic zones. In this picture you can see about 10 dwarf mondo grass plugs that i planted. I'm told they will fill in nice in a couple of years. We shall see. I keep them watered.
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1- Numismatics - I have been planning on putting together a 20th century type set, and I am only missing a few I think. I also on rare occasion go metal detecting. I also like to fish. I play oddball computer games.
2- If I had the space I would totally work on a train set. I am teaching myself to program in Javascript so that I can put together my own website someday. It has been a while since I have learned a new programming language.
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smauggie-"I also on rare occasion go metal detecting."
Can you also detect non-ferrous objects?
Dan C.
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Sheepshanks,
"Lazing in a deckchair on a warm summers day, listening to the gentle wash of the waves."
Oh, HECK yeah!!!!
"As an afterthought I wish I could have written some decent poetry or a book such as The Wind in the Willows."
No time like the present?
JR
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Hi Smauggie,
We could probably hang out!
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I also on rare occasion go metal detecting. I also like to fish. I play oddball computer games."
Oh YEAH! Always wanted to metal detect! Waiting for when I grow up, LOL!
"I am teaching myself to program in Javascript so that I can put together my own website someday. It has been a while since I have learned a new programming language. "
I LOVE computer programming! But only as a hobby.
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Johnny, My attempts at poetry are pretty weak and the only story I have written was for lady from the States who was in England and used to walk around Kensington Gardens with her son in a stroller. He had a little soft toy snowman that hung on his stroller but got lost one day. The story was of the snowman getting back to Charlie.
Made sense to me, not sure it would to anyone else.
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Interesting topic, activities and collections of things ….. and I guess the term “hobby” is generally thought of as just that …..
My husband spent almost 20 years working in disaster assistance for the Small Business Administration. From Northridge to 911, from the hollers in West Virginia to a mountain top overlooking Monterrey. You get the picture.
Does he have hobbies – sure – stamps, postal history, ephemera, antique cars, woodworking, etc. They come and go – those that revolve around “things” are becoming less and less important to him. His job changed him - he now spends a lot more time in thinking about the interesting people he met along the way and how each of them added to his appreciation of life as well as finding more interesting people along the way. Talk with strangers – you will always learn something.
4 hours spent on a lazy afternoon with a Shaman and his pet wolf (mountaintop overlooking Monterrey), a married couple living in the shadow of Mt Lassen who were lawyers in San Francisco, now living on one of those 5 acre plots sold after WW
II - 18 miles down a dirt road in an 8x30 trailer with 12V power for their tiny TV and a propane refrigerator. An old beat up pickup truck replacing the Cadillacs anf Lincolns but happy.
Sitting at a table talking to people on the wrong side of Woodward Avenue in Detroit and having them ask him to pray with them.. The surreal feelings in seeing 911 for the first time, still smoldering and spending time in Point Pleasant WV for 3 days set up under Silver Bridge. Their office in Niagara Falls was adjacent to the falls – you can sit staring at them and get lost in time and space. It is as feeling that all sacred places have...
So many more but I have probably bored most of you to death… the bottom line is that the older we get the less important things have become in our life and the more important living a simple life have become. Don’t know how many are familiar with Helen and Scott Nearing ( Mother Earth News c.1970) – if you are you get the picture. Your perspective changes. Life becomes your hobby …. I’ll quit before I get too far behind.and if I have veered off course too far go ahead and delete – it won’t hurt my feelings and might save some embarrassment.
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Other Hobbies;
- my Detroit Tigers baseball card collection, which spans 1935 to present;
- my baseball collection;
A Future Hobby;
working on my '70 Nova....if I ever find the one I want!
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I am deep back into board wargames for the last year, specifically solitaire versions. Social distancing is no challenge here: stamps and solitaire board games have me stretching to make time for family contacts.
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Webpaper-I'd personally like to hear more about "4 hours spent on a lazy afternoon with a Shaman and his pet wolf (mountaintop overlooking Monterrey)" (Perhaps contact me off this platform so we don't interfere with the thread.)
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Dan C.
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Hi Dani,
Happy to contact you off platform - it will probably be a couple of days
Carol
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I have always wanted to play B17 - Queen of the skies, rjan. Is that one you play?
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I'm a private pilot and fly my 1947 Ercoupe (the airplane in the avatar at left) as frequently as I can.
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Webpaper said that I can identify with:
"Does he have hobbies – sure – stamps, postal history, ephemera, antique cars, woodworking, etc. They come and go – those that revolve around “things” are becoming less and less important to him."
I have followed that same thought process. When we bought our old house (1939 vintage) in '76, I began my long love affair with landscaping. The massively overgrown 3/4 acres made it a necessity, but it became an obsession and then love affair that continues to this day. In the process, I've shared scores of perennials and tree seedlings with neighbors, friends and family. It is something I do for my own benefit and to help others, including future generations. Hopefully, a few of the trees the squirrels and I have planted will still be here 200 years from now.
Along the way, my interest in collecting stamps faded, but not my interest in philately. I began writing articles for publication. I began designing album pages and found I enjoyed sharing those designs more than I liked collecting the stamps. I began buying nice stamps to scan and create prints from and then resold those stamps to buy more. This evolved into a digital collection I could share online with others.
I inherited a ton of my families' genealogy material 20 years ago. I have spent a lot of time digitizing and sharing images with descriptions online. In a roundabout way, that effort also led to my meeting a handful of very active collectors of early 20th century Indiana postcards. They had some extraordinary collections with numerous rare postcard scenes. I began digitizing their collections in order to share those images online with the public and to create prints from the very best postcard images. My interest in that period in history grew and I began writing lengthy descriptions of many of those postcards based on the vast amount of research material that is now available online.
Without realizing it at first, I was clearly more interested in developing images and information I could share with others. I retained an interest in philately, but lost interest in collecting the stamps themselves. I never developed an interest in collecting postcards, but love the history they convey. I've produced a few hundred family genealogy images, several thousand stamp images and over 9000 early 20th century Indiana postcard images in the past 20 years or so. It's been a very rewarding century so far!!!!
This was the front yard in 2015. Unfortunately, this is the best photo I'll ever take of that scene. The two largest trees right of center had to be removed recently for safety reasons and a couple of other smaller trees have died. I don't have enough years remaining at this house to come close to restoring what I (and Mother Nature) spent so many years creating. I'll start that process, but the next owner or two will need to carry on in my stead.
Tom
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Tom, your descriptions are vivid and clear. As an author, writer,historian and face of the family you do yourself/friends/family proud. Your feel for nature though, in the guise of landscaping, speaks well and true to me. Thanks for the pictures, in words and in photo.
Respect,
Dan C.
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Q1: US Numismatics. Type set only missing $10 and $20 gold coins (the big shineys). Lincoln cents complete (except I used a 1922 weak D instead of a totally missing mint mark - so far), all Jefferson nickles, Roosevelt dimes, Washington quarters, and Franklin halves from the beginning, Mint Sets from 1959, Proof Sets from 1968, and a few extras missing from the mint and proof sets (like the recent S mint and W mint quarters).
I also have a "One From Every Country" coin collection, but I limited it to a particular era (circa 1980).
Q2: What hobby would I like to try? I don't know. Competitive tanning with the Swedish Bikini Team? As good as answer as any, I suppose. I have a few bucket list items like an Alaskan Cruise and visiting the Pyramids in Egypt, but I can't think of any hobbies I would want to add.
I would, however, like to get RID of any obligation for yard work!
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Q1. An intellectual interest in gardening. I don't do too much of the work I'm afraid.
Q2. I keep looking at YouTube programs on plastic kit modelling. I will probably never get round to it although my head mounted magnifier would take care of my failing eyesight. It certainly works wonders for my stamp collecting. Of course my long planned dystopian novel will hopefully one day happen, but seeing it was about a pandemic it has been overtaken by real events.
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Hi DannyS,
" I keep looking at YouTube programs on plastic kit modelling."
This is a very fun hobby as well! I like to mainly build ships!
JR
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Aside from stamps and postal history, many folks here know I’m a scale model car builder. I’m actually much more involved in this hobby than stamps. I chair a national annual event.
I have always been interested in old cars and have owned a bunch of them in the past. I’ve thought that in my retirement I’d like to have one nice car (vs all the ones I’ve owned needing tons of work) maybe a 1930s traditional rod.
I don’t have any aspirations for future hobbies. But I am very interested in history and everything around me. In the spirit that if you have three or more of an item, it’s a collection then I’m very susceptible!
Here’s my current model project that I’m building to keep busy during captivity.
And when hobbies collide... I’m finishing up on an East German Trabant postal van. When researching the Trabant kit I came across some photos of the mail truck so I just had to do it. Danbury Mint produced very nice diecast vehicles of US postal vehicles. I have their 1930s Ford and later postal Jeep.
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Tom,
Love the weathering on that old Chevy pick up! Is that a plastic kit? It sure looks like rusty steel to me.
Ernie
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Thanks Ernie!
Yes it’s white plastic. I love to do the weathering.
It’s several layers.. primer red, primer gray, flat black and then two coats of shiny green. I wet sand carefully to get the layer effect. Then highlights with chalk and dull clear.
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Here's my other plastic model hobby venture.
1/72 (20mm) mini figures! Fun!
This one has a chip unfortunately on gun barrel (been through a "war" it seems!)
I also like 15mm figures as well! (now those are SMALL!)
JR
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Just now, I'm trying my hand at making cardboard kit models. I bought a model of a steam loco a few years ago while I was still working and gave up after a couple of weeks - it was very complicated and I just didn't have the time. Now I'm retired, and with the lockdown, I'm trying again. This time it's a 1930 Bugatti Royal 1930, 1:24. Every step of the way affects a lot of the subsequent steps. I made a small error with the chassis, and as a result the roof piece didn't fit. So it looks like a Bugatti front half that's been welded to the back of a Ford Capri. I'm carrying on though, hoping to gain skill and experience so the next kit comes out better.
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Strider,
That kit sounds very intriguing!
I had never even heard of those kinds of kits.
They sound quite challenging.
JR
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Hi Johnny
They are indeed! You need patience, concentration and the right glue! The result can be really delightful, or an embarrassment, depending on if you get it right.
Take a look at the Marcle Models website - www.marcle.co.uk - you'll see my Bugatti Royale (now Bugatti Capri) in the catalogue. There must be equivalent dealers in US selling this sort of stuff. Railway modellers use this for their buildings and backgrounds, I think.
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Hi Strider,
"The result can be really delightful, or an embarrassment,"
LOL! I love it! This is exactly how I feel about plastic models! My results have went both ways. Delightful AND embarrassing at different times.
Thanks!
JR
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