What cool collectible do you have at home?

[johnnie]

I'm watching the Antique Roadshow and even though I don't have anything worth what some of these people have, I started thinking about what I do have that I really dig. Not that is has to be worth a lot, just something or things you have that you "treasure".

I have:

A rock from the Temple of Zeus
A book about Edgar Allan Poe from the 1890's
A guitar pick John Lennon used at Madison Square Garden (supposedly)
Some Elvis hair given to me by a friend of his for my birthday...LOL It was a sweet gesture.

So, what ya got? Collectible or just kind of cool.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. An antique Royal Sarouk oriental rug.

It's quite large, but has some condition problems. Yes, I also watch Antiques Roadshow. Best thing on the tube.

:)

[johnnie]

2. It's a cool show

My favorite was the woman who had football cards still in the package from decades ago. The guy said they are worth around $1,000 each and some a little more. He asked her how many she had and she said 350 packs..lol. Yikes!

[Archae]

3. 50+ snowglobes.

The best ones are the Austrian ones.

[WindRavenX]

4. a bunch of Final Fantasy action figures

I'm an uber geek :D

[TimeChaser]

74. Ooh! Me too!

And a ton of anime figures too

[Mutley]

5. I have some family

heirloom type stuff. I have my paternal grandmother's engagement and wedding rings, and the little jewelry box she kept them in.

An antique tea set thing that I could probably make some decent money from on eBay.

My maternal grandmother's silver serving tray.

A 1943 steel penny that's in decent shape.

And some other stuff I can't think of right now.

[johnnie]

7. I have two of my great-grandmother's cooking pots

And my late grandfather's soup pot. They are all the best cookware I own.

[Ptah]

6. Collectibles:

Some watermelom themed trinkets:

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Collect them, trade them, own them all





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[Jamastiene]

8. I am the proud momma of a genuine Squier Venus

Courtney Love designed guitar. I can't seem to get a good picture of mine no matter how hard I try, but here is a link to a picture of one that resembles mine.



and some info about the guitar, which also came in an awful ugly seafoam green. Mine is black. I love it.
http://www.heavenlyrain.com/cr/musician/venus.html


The only changes I made to mine are black pickup covers and I changed the knobs to black dome knobs.

[idgiehkt]

10. marry me.

LOL

I hate 'collectibles', even the word makes me nauseated, but yours rocks.

And I bet even the green is awesome.

[Jamastiene]

20. Here is a picture of a green one:

I played with one for a while, but decided that color was sort of distracting to me.

Thanks for the great compliment. :pals:

[idgiehkt]

23. wow that looks more blue than green

now I can see why they call it 'seafoam green'. I couldn't afford the big crayola box when I was little, lol.

[Jamastiene]

26. I couldn't either, but I still managed to get a generic crayon box

with a sharpener in it. The paper on the crayons didn't fit right and constantly slipped and the coloring was hard because the crayons were so cheap. I'll never forget that. I am not great at distinguishing subtle shades of blue/green either.

[idgiehkt]

33. that sharpener was very important, no?

that was half the fun, lol.

[Jamastiene]

34. I loved the sharpener.

I remember sharpening both ends once so I could color longer without having to sharpen just the one end again. It looked funny, but it worked. :)

[idgiehkt]

63. that is so cute.

I can see you with your dual-sharpened crayons just coloring away. Makes me feel stupid, cause I never thought of that, lol. I just liked to break the crayons and look at the inside. See the textures and patterns in the break, whether it was smooth or notchy. I was a weird kid.

[RetroLounge]

9. Oh Man, You Asked for it...

Heywood Wakefield furniture


Franciscan Starburst China


Franciscan Duet China


Holt Howard Cats


Ponytail Vinyl Collectibles


Melmac Dinnerware


Pebbleford Dinnerware


Siestaware Tropical Glassware


Libbey "fish" Glassware


Kreiss Asian Figurines


Ceramic Animal Dresser Caddies


Wire Animal Letter Holders


Vintage Board Games


Kromex Kitchenware


I'm sure I'm forgetting some...

RL

[u4ic]

Wow!

That's quite the collection! Niiice! :hi:

[johnnie]

11. Cool

A lot of retro stuff. You would love my "silverware"

[nosillies]

12. I love your Libbey glassware.

I grew up by the Libbey plant, and I have buttloads. Good memories. I still go to the outlet when I go home.

[PassingFair]

31. L-O-V-E your fish glasses!

I collect Harkerware myself, with a soft spot for
the Russel Wright stuff.

I like the Heywood Wakefield, but I LOVE Conant Ball.

We'll have to have you over for a game of "Magnetic Donkey Party" some night!

[spacelady]

48. Wow, I've got the Kromex Kitchenware Salt 'n' Pepper. Didn't know

BUT I've also got SPECTRA Radio Sunglasses in Original Pouch &
Halsam Skyline Building Set in Original Box. Totally by accident from my parents who said "Do you want this? Otherwise we're throwing it away."

[RevCheesehead]

60. Hey! My dad has that kangaroo thingy on his dresser!

I consider my dad old enough to be a collectable, too. :)

:hi::loveya:

[trof]

13. 6-pack of glass bottle Cokes with Coach "Bear" Bryant's likeness.

From the late 60s, early 70s?
He had a state-wide TV program of game tapes Sunday after the game.
Sponsored by Coca-Cola and Golden Flake potato chips.
"Great Pair, says the Bear"

[unsavedtrash]

29. I have those too.

I'm ready for the season to get started!

[nosillies]

14. I too stole a rock, mine is from the Parthenon.

I do treasure my pictures of me at macabre crime scenes from around the world. Me on Versace's stained front steps is a personal favorite.

And the most treasured/most expensive things in my house are probably the Todd Goldman works of art.

http://www.davidandgoliathtees.com/indexc.php?mode=whois

Some of you stupid boys out there may have heard of him.

[trof]

15. Oh yeah...WW II Japanese battle flag.

Given to me by a good friend.
A Dutch woman who spent years in a Japanese concentration camp in Burma.
The flag flew over the camp.
It's along story about how and why she gave it to me.

[JitterbugPerfume]

16. silverware from Betty Crocker coupons

lots of old books

currier and Ives reproductions

blue and white porceline (?Sp) from kinda valuable, to stuff I got for a dollar at flea markets

stuff

some old jewelry that was moms

old family photos ( some REAL old)

[Broken_Hero]

17. hmmm

He-Man and Skeletor still in the packaging from 1986...also got a Superman superfriends toy, from 1982....I don't know how much they are worth, but those are probably the only collectibles that I have that are worth anything...except maybe some old school star wars figures I have, those usually are wantd items...

[Left Is Write]

18. Vintage radios.

And stereos.

Tons of old board games, game show ephemera, mid-century menus, and vintage kitchenware.

[Richard Steele]

19. We have my sweeties grandmas Crosley 'Dashboard' radio.

Near-mint, works 100%. It looks great in the living room
with the Weltron 2005.

And we have TONS of other stuff, but much of it isn't considered
"collectable" by anybody but us, y'know?

I have over 400 vintage neckties, for instance.

[RetroLounge]

21. Sounds like my kind of house!

:hi:

RL

[Left Is Write]

22. I believe it probably is.

:)

Nice to see you!

[RetroLounge]

25. You too...

Welcome home...

RL

[arwalden]

24. A 107 Year Old Underwood Typewriter

similar to this one.

[5thGenDemocrat]

65. Similarly, I have a 1937 IBM electric typewriter

From, I think, the second year they were made. My grandpa Bill was a salesman for the International Business Machines Company (I have a couple of his business cards -- pretty cool). Grandma got the machine as a demonstrator and it was about the only thing I really, really wanted from her estate. It still works fine, except for the back space key which I'll get repaired someday.
As far as collecting stuff, I have a whole closet of high school "jock jackets" from around the country -- say fifty or so. They are warm, keep you very dry when it snows or rains, come in any number of color combination and are classically American. I have at least one in every letter except I, K, Q and Z as well as several with letter combinations ("A/H" for my old high school, (Saginaw MI) Arthur Hill, for example).
John
How you doing, arwalden? Every going good there in Hampton? I hear they're shutting down Fort Monroe (my old Army post) soon.

[REP]

66. Blickensderfer 5 (1893)

Similar to this one, but mine is in its case with instruction manual and extra type ball:

[Fox Mulder]

27. I have a rock from an eroded volcanic plume in NW New Mexico...

I won't say where, but you can probably guess. ;)

I also have a stalactite from a certain cave from a certain area (won't say where) and boxwork from another cave...

All stuff I shouldn't have, but I do...

[haf216]

28. I have two clocks.

I think they are from the 1800's. They were my Grandfather's, I don't know if they are worth anything, but they mean the world to me.

[derby378]

30. I have an old bottle of Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment

It's an old quack medicine remedy from a hundred years ago. My bottle, however, still has most of the original paper label and a little of the "snake oil" still left in the bottle. (It's probably a mixture of kerosene, camphor, and turpentine.)

[qnr]

32. Nothing. Well, I do still have my belly button lint & peril-sensitive

sunglasses from my Atari 8-bit Infocom Hitchhikers Guide To The Universe game from back in the early '80's

Oh yeah, I have some pieces of a tire from Coast Guard One when it blew a few tires landing at Lamezia Terme in Southern Italy.

[MrCoffee]

39. That game was the shiz-nits.

[qnr]

45. Yeah - I enjoyed most of the Infocom games :) n/t

[MrCoffee]

35. None, and those Antiques Roadshow bastards never let me forget it

[taterguy]

36. The program from the first basketball game in the Dean Dome

I'm afraid to check its value since I'm not sure what I did with it or what condition it's in

[WCGreen]

37. So you can come over and steal my treasures.....

NEVER!!!!!!

[NewWaveChick1981]

38. My house is nothing BUT collectibles...

I'm married to a freelance comic artist who collects action figures of all kinds, GI Joes, western memorabilia, Civil War action figures, Revolutionary War action figures, original comic art, autographed pictures, and a whole bunch of other stuff. :P I have family antiques ranging from my great-grandmother's silver mirror/brush/comb set all the way up to beds and other furniture. I also have my grandmother's prewar Japanese wedding china, oil paintings done by my great-grandmother, and a writing desk my mother got as a child that dates to 1750. (NOTE: Mom was not born in 1750. :rofl: My grandmother was an antique dealer.)

[WCGreen]

40. My dad use to rent out to a comic artist in the late 70's...

He drew an inked this great Batman for me....

It's not here right now so I can't remember the artsists name....

[NewJeffCT]

41. A bunch of Warhammer figurines... comic books, too

I have had several Warhammer figures painted for me by award-winning miniature painters like Jennifer Haley & Matt Verzani (as well as a very good painter on DU as well) I had some painted on commission, and some I got off of eBay. Warhammer is a fantasy wargame featuring things like orcs, elves, goblins, undead, etc. The figures are about 1" high each, though there are exceptions for monsters, dragons, etc.

I have a lot of comic books from the 60s and 70s, including a ton of Spider-Man.

[Bunny]

42. I have a globe that is almost 70 years old.

It's got countries on it that haven't existed since 1937. It looks a lot like this:



I also have a genuine, phone-company issued desktop rotary dial phone in red. The original hotline, as they used to say in the 70's. It's similar to this:



Old timers here will remember when the phone company issued you a phone, and you rented it from them. If you ever moved, you were supposed to return the phone to the phone company. I've always been a rebel, and did not return mine!

[sweetheart]

43. a piece of the berlin wall

a 300 million year old stone ball,
a 1 million year old fossil,
the conscience that heard martin luther king,
The heart that was starstruck by decades of excellent rock and roll.

... and the goodwill that remembers before bush.

[1gobluedem]

44. I have a Donny Osmond doodle

Which is neither collectible nor cool. A friend gave it to me as a joke because no one bid for it at a silent auction and his heyday coincided with our puberty. But it's the best I can offer unless you count my original Cabbage Patch Kid and her original packaging.

[Bombero1956]

47. 1222 diecast cars

I have so many that I have to store the extras in a public storage facility.

[johnnie]

49. Holy shit

[Bombero1956]

51. nothing really

I have fellow collectors that have 3000+ in their collections. One in Florida put an addition on his house.

[FedUpWithIt All]

46. I have a sonnet book from the early 17th century...

The Seasons by Thomson. I have been unable to date it exactly. Apparently, it is an unusual copy.

I adore antique books. I just love thinking of all the people who have handled them over the years.

[Dinger]

50. Lots Of Autographs,

Green Bay Packers mostly, but also, two autographed Wes Clark books, and a Kerry Rally ticket from May 27th, 2004, autographed by John Kerry.

[Kickoutthejams23]

52. I have a pretty good erotic art collection.

Modern sketch stuff. Both Japanese and American.

[Kickoutthejams23]

53. Edit dupe

[Ramsey]

54. I've got a bunch of antiques

But some of the coolest stuff I have came from the South Pacific and Africa. My dad was the first mate on a tall sailing ship in 1955 when he was 18, and they around the coast of Africa and stopped at a bunch of islands in the South Pacific. This was back before anyone went to these places for vacation, and they were mainly populated by indigenous peoples. There was a book written about the voyage and National Geographic did a special on the ship, called The Yankee.

My dad brought back tons of artefact's that he traded the locals for along the way. We've got knives and other weapons, statues, carvings, textiles.

[Katina]

55. a real Red Rider repeating BB gun

it's my husband's. He will never part with it..too many viewings of "A Christmas Story"

[dropkickpa]

56. A couple things

I have my g-g-grandmothers wedding ring (she got married at 16 and died at 92, and never once took it off until she got sick and wanted it to go to family), it is TINY and so thin from wear that I'm surprised she didn't slice herself on it when she waas older (she was a farmers wife, LOTS of hard work). I also have several hundred old family photos ranging from over 110 years old to 50 years old.

Everything else I own is crap and I don't care. Those are my most treasured possesions.

[Kali]

57. the only intentionally collected things I have are

Mata Ortiz pottery. But I have TONS of stuff - old stuff from the family, treasures from travels, stuff that is still in use that probably should be in a museum etc etc.

Come from a long line of packrats. Everything has a story too. No mail ordered crap with no history for me.

[Lisa]

58. a vaseline glass paperweight (the uranium really does fluoresce!)

And a couple of Del Tin swords ... and a series of replica Roman, Dark Ages, and medieval helmets made by various artisans. (The type which are good enough to pass inspection at historical re-enactments!)

[driver8]

59. I have a letter signed by Cecil B. DeMille on "Ten Commandments"

letterhead.

I found it in a box at work that was about to be thrown out.

[BuddhaGirl]

61. depression glass

these are just a few of the patterns I collect:

Moderntone


Block Optic green


Sportsman's Series cobalt


Fire King Swirl nesting bowls


I have some Fire King Restaurantware


and some Jane Ray

[many a good man]

62. I have a matchbox once owned by

Teddy Roosevelt and another one used by Franklin. But I can't remember which is which!

We also have a silver tray once owned by Robert E. Lee.

[bertha katzenengel]

64. Ball I caught at Anaheim Stadium Sept. 89: Nolan Ryan pitched it

Chili Davis fouled off. I caught it.

[REP]

67. April 1951 Edition of "Galaxy"

That's where CM Kornbluth's "Marching Morons" was first published. I have a lot of Golden Era science fiction and Kornbluth, including novels written under his many pen-names. I recently got the first American edition (1905) of GD Shaw's Candida for next to nothing. I have an odd assortment of various first editions that mean a lot to me.

I have a 1949 Maxfield Parrish lithograph ("The Village Church) in an advertising calendar from Acme Pattern Works.

I have a large collection of glass, including a 100+ piece set of depression Fireking Marigold dinnerware (including serving pieces), art glass by various artists, such as Vernon Brejcha, Michael Shearer, Peter Schiller, etc and a lot of cobalt depression glass. I also have some modern non-art glass that I ust thought was cool; after all, a lot of depression glass was given away at gas stations; perhaps someday some this will be collectible!

[RedStateShame]

68. Signatures

> A T-shirt signed by Rudy Ray Moore. ("Dolemite")

> A ticket stub signed by Bob Pollard. (Guided by Voices)

> A flyer signed by Jimmy Flemion. (The Frogs)

> A T-shirt signed by Tenacious D.

[Brewman_Jax]

69. Souvenir brick from my old college dorm

it was the oldest on campus and was being torn down. As a fund-raiser, they "sold" the bricks. That was my home away from home for 4 years.

[GalleryGod]

70. Ashtrays ! Yes ashtrays !

STORK CLUB

COPACABANA

SARDI'S

SPAGO

and three from....


TOOTS SHOR.

[Blue Diadem]

71. I collect oil/kerosene lamps

My collection began years ago when I received one that belonged to my grandmother. It's from the 1880's. I don't collect because of value, I do it because I like them.

[Blue_In_AK]

72. I don't collect...

...but my husband, a retired marine engineer, has a whole room full of Merchant Marine memorabilia from the WW II era. It's like a museum.

[Ohio Joe]

73. 900+ DVDs

I love to watch movies :)

[warrens]

75. Original heavy cardboard mega-poster for first Stooges album

I figure I have the only one left in the world. I mentioned it on a Stooges board one time and had about 20 unsolicited offers within a day. Not for sale.

[HEyHEY]

76. Nothing

:(

[HEyHEY]

77. Wait a tick!

I forgot - I have a bunch of old pop bottles from the 50s I founf while skin-diving in Buntzen lake.

[dpbrown]

78. Bicentennial 7-Up 50 State Pop Can Collection

Sorry, it's all I've got.

[seemunkee]

79. Harpers Weekly 1886-1920 bound

My mother worked at a library and they were going to throw them out.

I also have a bunch of action figures, Takashi Murakami figures, life size Yoda, comics, animation cels, and smashed pennies.

[AngryAmish]

80. A ball signed by Therman Munson the day before he died

[GreenTea]

81. Many early, first print Fillmore & Avalon posters (Wes Wilson).

[benEzra]

82. A 101-year-old rifle embossed with the crest of Czar Nicholas II

...a model 1891 Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifle (7.62x54mm) made in Izhevsk, Russia for the Imperial Russian army in 1905. It could have seen some action in World War I. The rifle was apparently in Finland when the Finns broke away from Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution, was issued to the Finnish Army, likely saw a great deal of action during the Winter War 1939-1940, was rebarreled and upgraded to M39 status in 1942 at the Finnish VKT arsenal in Jyvaskyla, and likely saw additional action against both the Soviets and the Nazi before the war was over. Sometime during the war, an artistic Finnish soldier delicately carved the initials "E.T." into the rear sight base, where they wouldn't easily be seen. Sometime after the war, the rifle was placed into storage as part of the Finnish Army's reserve.

During the mid-1990's, Finland allowed many of its older bolt-action rifles to be sold to collectors in other nations. This particulary M39 was imported into the U.S. by a company in Vermont, and ended up at a gun shop in Florida that caters to history buffs, which is how I came to purchase it.

The rifle turned 100 years old last year, and can still shoot the center out of a playing card at 100 yards. Taken care of, with light use, it should still be functional a thousand years from now. It's not worth a lot from a financial standpoint (maybe $200), but it's a textbook of Russian and Finnish history, and played a part in some of the most important historical events of the twentieth century.


1942 Finn M39 rifle built on 1905 Imperial Russian M1891 receiver



Finn ski troops, January 1940

[AspenRose]

83. A signed letter from Peter Jennings

and the issue of Life Magazine with Coretta Scott King on the cover when MLK died.

[dback]

84. About 15 vintage Oz books

Mostly first editions. They are among my great treasures.

[Katina]

85. autographed picture of "shot heard round the world"

signed by Ralph Branca and Bobby Thompson. (Giants v Dodgers World series 1951)