What have you/did you collect?

[TN_Vixen]

I used to collect turtles. No, not real ones, figurines. I had a blown glass turtles, petrified turtles, turtles made of mother-of-pearl, turtle earrings, turtle magnets, I even have a real baby turtle shell I found once on my Grandaddy's farm that we boiled and shellaqued (sp?).

My brother collected bunnies

My older sister collected unicorns


What did/do you collect?

 

[Wizard]

Dust..........................

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Guest]

Collections throughout the years...as brought to you by Tiggs

Stuffed teddy bears
Teddy bear figurines
Dolphins
Precious Moments
Disney figurines
Music boxes
Thomas Kinkade art work
Froggy things

 

[Adoratrice]

1)antique sewing machines
2)wedding dolls....ummm dolls in wedding dresses
3)thimbles.....think peter pan
4)mirrors...I have no idea how this started but I have a mirror hanging in every room
5)buttons...jars & jars of them...
6)Police memorial booklets from funerals...one collection I wish I didn't have.
7)candles.....180 & growing....


Damn....I think I need a Bigger house.

 

[Juliangel]

Angels
Fairys
Hummels
Beanie Babies <~~ For my daughter
Beanie Buddies <~~ again for my daughter

adding these to my list because I forgot them, looking around my house I have no idea how:
(Bird Houses Tea Pots and Mini Tea Sets)

[Edited by Juliangel on 11-14-2000 at 10:56 PM]

 

[Silverlily]

And your antiques lesson for today is...

Butter chips - around the turn of the century, it was considered high fashion to serve a pat of butter on a small (smaller than a tea saucer) plate that matched one's china pattern. I have a few dating from the 1890's and one full set of Nippon plates. (After WWII, most things labeled Nippon (Japan) were destroyed.)

I also collect cougars.

 

[Sammyjo]

Anything that has to do with lighthouses, Winnie-the-Pooh stuff, sex toys, and herbal remedies...

 

[Nobody Special]

herbs
candles
fairys
sprites
dragons
stones
sticky white love piss

Well I think that is all oh yea I can't for get my babys my 3 little puppys

 

[Cheyenne]

I collect

Inkwells- crystal or crystal/silver top
Depression glass- cobalt blue, Royal lace
Hummels
lladro angels
Steiff animals
Radko ornaments
Commemorative U.S. postage plate blocks
temporary friends

 

[Jester]

Comic books
Rocks
Stamps
AOL CD's (for an art thing)
Superman T-shirts (still)

 

[naudiz]

Bottles.

Not just any bottles, mind you. When I was in my teens, I lived in this really great house just outside a small town in Oregon (oh, the number of horror novels I intend to set in that small town, muahahaha) - ahem. Anyway, we had about thirty acres of land, and on this thirty acres, we found an old landfill from, like, the late 1800s. My dad and I used to go out to this spot and dig up old bottles that had survived the many, many years.

Last summer, I was visiting my folks (they live somewhere else, now), and I found all those old bottles out in a storage shed collecting dust, mice, and other things. So I brought them home, cleaned them up, and now I have a pretty substantial collection of old, valueable bottles from the turn of the century. The previous one, not this one.

I'm thinking of getting them appraised and selling them all, but I don't know if I have the heart. But if you know anyone looking to pay lots of money for antique bottles...

I also used to collect Garbage Pail Kids cards. *hangs head in shame*

 

[Laurel]

Dust..........................

LMMFAO!

I collect first editions of modern writers that I enjoy. I own almost every William Vollmann novel in first - a couple even have his signature. One of them I had signed at a reading he did in Berkeley 3 or 4 years ago, around the release of The Atlas. He signed it "To [my real name] Love Bill" and put that in a big heart! It made me swoon...I have firsts of newer writers like Martin Amis, Will Self, Scott Bradfield, and even an Umberto Eco (Foucault's Pendulum, of course). As far as older books, I own a first US edition of "All Quiet on the Western Front", a very good two-volume first of Edith Wharton's "The Valley of Decision", and several Heritage Press special limited editions of various authors, including Oscar Wilde and I think a John Steinbeck.

I used to collect antique fountain pens. My favorite one is a silver Parker that I purchased at a pen show about 5 years ago. It writes wonderfully. I haven't been able to deduce what model the pen is. The guy who sold it to me said it's a European Parker from the 30's, but had no other info. I sent it in to the Fountain Pen Hospital to be cleaned and they offered me $300 for it, but when I asked them they claimed to not know much about the pen, ha. So the mystery continues...

 

[TN_Vixen]

I got caught up ..

in the beanie baby craze several years ago. Spent all kinds of time and money on those useless things.

Also, I collect the purple bags that the bottles of Crown Royal comes in. A friend of mine makes quilts out of them and even if you don't want one made yourself, she pays good money for a handful of those bags. I think I must have somewhere around 100 of them now.

Cheyenne.. my mother collects the Radko ornaments. Are those the ones that have themes to them? The last set she bought was from the Wizard of Oz, I think. Her Christmas trees are full of Radko ornaments. There's another artist that does the hand painted ornaments, who's that?

Kitten Eyes.. the Butter Chips thing sounds very cool. I grew up in the summers in Tellico (a very remote small town in Monroe Co. TN) with my Grandparents. They had all kinds of antiques that you would drool over!

Adoratrice.. mirrors, eh? There's something symbolic there I do believe.

 

[teresafannin]

I used to collect paper dolls, had all different kinds from the 1930's to the 1970's, somehow they disappeared during one of my moves. Now I collect dolls, medieval themed books & patterns, artist dolls,books about dolls, can you tell I like dolls?

 

[April]

Sorry! *ducking head in embarrassment (sp?)*

Add me to the Beanie Baby collectors. I have a large collection, but I stopped buying them last year. Now I'm looking to sell most of them. I also collect my favorite writer's books. Just to read them. My collection is not valuable, except to me.

 

[Earthmuffin]

No wonder this place is such a mess!

My collecting days have slowed since the munchykin invasion, but dragons are my favorite thing to collect. I also have a modest collection of SanFrancisco Music Box snow globes. Would you call 40+ dozen (musical) compact discs a collection? Oh yeah, somehow I've managed to hang onto a piece of clothing from previous lovers, usually a shirt.

 

[Skibum]

Paperback Louis L'Amour novels.

 

[Stormystarr]

Angels and Gargoyles
I have a pretty big collection of both now!

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Re: No wonder this place is such a mess!

My collecting days have slowed since the munchykin invasion, but dragons are my favorite thing to collect. I also have a modest collection of SanFrancisco Music Box snow globes. Would you call 40+ dozen (musical) compact discs a collection? Oh yeah, somehow I've managed to hang onto a piece of clothing from previous lovers, usually a shirt.

I've got a shirt for you

 

[Becca Btr N Btr]

I collect everything.....

Seriously...I have collections of:

Rabbits...not live although I did have several once, like figurines, posters...etc

Tea Cups and their Sausers all different no two are the same.

Star Trek Glasses...ok if you ever saw a Star Trek The Next Generation for example...they would have drinks in very odd and unique Glasses. Try to remember at the bar with Guinan...Whoopie Goldberg. They are often vases or candle holders that we ust to drink from. It is exotic and was a unique collection that my husband and I did together. We always got just two of each...one for us both.

Memories (things that are handed down or are gifts to treasure forever.

Rocks or stones

Angels

Photographs

Antique Stereo Cards (3D)

Different Antiques from Furniature to Postcards...

Coins

Crafts to do and havn't done yet...LOL

Everything I can't bring myself to throw away.

Oh and Kids I guess LOL! (Not to mention everything about them they do, say, make, or just has to do with them. I am really amazing...or awful depending on who is looking at it.)

 

[Renegade]

I have collected some weird things in my time. Actualy I probably shouldn't list any of them here.... but I'm gonna do it anyways:

Comic Books
Garbage Pail Kids cards
Pens(dont ask)
Ninja Turtle merchandise
2001 A Space Oddyssey merchandise
Rubber bands(again dont ask)
Internet storys(used to print them out all the time)
Fan art from the web(again I used to print them out alot)
Beast Wars toys
Rocks
Used fireworks from the forth of july

And alot of other things, some a little TO WEIRD to list on a public forum. *looks at list* Come to think of it, I am a pretty weird little bastard myself.

 

[SpecialK]

I collect Dreamsicles which are cherub figurines made by Cast Art Industries.

These (I hope this pic isn't too big!):

http://www.toysplus.com/dreamsicles/images/10735.jpg

I do not however, seem to collect enough cabinets to put them in.

Christmas and my birthday are coming up. My motto is, I can never have too many Dreamsicles.

K

 

[*Eve*]

I collect Barbies, laugh if you want but some are worth quite a bit.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Hearts first,

then minds and souls.

In that order too.