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Post by dapellegrini on Oct 16, 2022 17:07:22 GMT -8
I've got a few collections that have nothing to do with watches... here's one: An example of every Blackberry phone until they went Android, at my office... A few batteries swoll during COVID so I took them all out to be safe... There was a time I believed these were the Bee's knees... What else (beside watches) do you collect?
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Post by small on Oct 16, 2022 18:14:22 GMT -8
Lots of stuff... Just a couple...
I was showing my neighbor a new addition to my tool box, an Easco 3/8" FT drive ratchet. He asked if I had as many ratchets as I did screwdrivers...He is amazed with my screwdrivers for some reason. I said maybe. M1stW was sitting there at the time. I asked, here or in total? (I have a small box in the car, I have another box where my daughter lives, and a box at work). He was like in total...I said less than 50, but not by much, if you count torque wrenches, breaker bars and speed wrenches...
Sears made the craftsmen brand and over the years they had many many designs. Teardrop, tri-wing, V shifter, Fine Tooth. Heck fine tooth I have four 1/2" drive that have different handles. First one was my dads...They are all marked differently. Some from Pat Pending to Patent...If I see something I don't have and the price is right I'll add it. Having a variety, yet I still find I have just a few that are my go-to's while working on stuff. Some never get used and I should move those on...Then there are times, when I have several in use at the same time. Rather then remove a socket and grab another size I just grab another ratchet...Even for all I have and they are not all craftsmen I have a lot more craftsmen I could buy. Heck it's like me trying to buy all the 7009 versions made for the USA market. I think I have them I just need to put something together to share on here...
While I don't really collect coins or money, I keep everything made before I was born, in a jug. I have no idea why except, my grandfather had something similar. Also keep bicentennial quarters again just because they are different...
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Post by trilo on Oct 16, 2022 22:01:29 GMT -8
Books, tools, old items and art.
For me it's the value price ratio. If I can get something valuable (quality, skill, technique imbued into the object) for cheap, I'll buy it, but if I really want something, I'm ready to pay proper money for it.
99% of the time I buy for my own enjoyment, not for resale.
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Post by scubarob99 on Oct 17, 2022 1:56:14 GMT -8
Signed first edition books, mostly military historical fiction. Marvel Comics- nothing after 1981 (I get some of them signed at comiccons)
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Post by tempelkim on Oct 17, 2022 2:46:20 GMT -8
I have a certain amount of vinyl records - far too many, my wife says/could be more, I think. Mainly Jazz and that odd music we used to listen to in the 80s, but classic music occupies considerable shelf space as well. Art is another thing. I wouldn't call it a collection, but I am getting more and more problems finding some free space on the walls...
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Post by SeikoFreek on Oct 17, 2022 4:15:21 GMT -8
Hawaiian Shirts !!
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Post by victor on Oct 17, 2022 4:44:48 GMT -8
I've got a few collections that have nothing to do with watches... here's one: An example of every Blackberry watch until they went Android, at my office... A few batteries swoll during COVID so I took them all out to be safe... There was a time I believed these were the Bee's knees... What else (beside watches) do you collect? Too funny. I used to have every BB as well - the company sent me every model from the first pagers through to the end - paid for my service too! I also had a fair number of Nokia and other phones from the late 90s through to the present era. I eventually took them all in to be recycled. BlackBerry was incredibly innovative and technically advanced, but management became a little arrogant and failed to recognize the new era of the modern smartphone changed what consumers wanted - they refused to adjust, and so they died. I still review some of the more interesting new devices from various vendors but do miss the willingness to experiment with design and experience that led up to the current era.
I've collected/accumulated various things over the years. Porsche has been a passion for many years, but now I'm happy with my old Targa and don't feel compelled to move into the modern era. Within the home I enjoy keeping a few reef aquariums, and I have a small hobby greenhouse for growing tropical plants. Pre-Covid I used to travel extensively which allowed me to pick up seeds and starts which were fun to grow and remind me of an interesting place I'd been.
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Post by inboost on Oct 17, 2022 16:58:38 GMT -8
I'd say we have to consider the type of collection / collector to help classify my reply here.
dapellegrini, your collections are really top notch in that you sharply focus on a subject and then you go after all pieces of that pie. You get them all together and then you document and reverse out a deeper knowledge of the data though what must be days to weeks of cumulative internet research. For all of that hunting high and low you often recover of little tidbits and crumbs of unique data that opens up a whole new understanding of the product line. Whenever you put up an interest in a collection for me to read about I'm excited to watch from front and center!
My collections are pretty simple and in alignment with others here. I've got enough CDs to start my own 1980's and 90's themed radio station, but no one would tune in. I have a good set of automotive service tools, but nothing more than what I have needed so I don't really call it a collection. I managed to collect nearly all of the old service documentation and binders for both my 1997 Ford truck and my 1974 Mazda REPU, no easy feat, but it's not much of a collection by today's standards where everything is downloaded from Alldata or Mitchel. I'm doing pretty good at collecting tools and documentation of watches these days, but it has a loose central focus and could be infinitely expanded upon so it's more of an 'assembly' of things than a collection. My watch collection is also completely scattered in subject matter, and I love it for that reason and many others. Maybe you'd say I collect variety of a subject of interest if you were being kind. I do have one item that I put the level of research that dapellegrini has, but that collected item is more data and scattered bits of precious paper trail than physical examples of the item. That 15 year on-again off-again chase of a 40 year old boyhood dream finally culminated in a broken down purchase in 2020 that took it to even more amazing heights trying and finally succeeding in fixing it. You'd possibly know it if you ever watched Miami Vice in the 1980s, and I'll leave it at that. I think it's my pinnacle of a researched and carefully groomed collection.
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Post by dapellegrini on Oct 17, 2022 17:37:44 GMT -8
Photos or it doesn't exist! victor I have a modern Targa, would love a classic to park next to it! Here's my favorite Blackberry, a Porsche Design model that I could not afford when it was a thing - but had to have for my collection: Sorry for the poor light - it is getting dark early all of the sudden! And here are what I call the "MMM" phones - the Major Motorola Milestones: That's the "brick" through the first "Droid". All fully functioning - though they only run while - plugged in.
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Post by dapellegrini on Oct 17, 2022 17:45:42 GMT -8
That 15 year on-again off-again chase of a 40 year old boyhood dream finally culminated in a broken down purchase in 2020 that took it to even more amazing heights trying and finally succeeding in fixing it. You'd possibly know it if you ever watched Miami Vice in the 1980s, and I'll leave it at that. I think it's my pinnacle of a researched and carefully groomed collection.
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A white Testarossa?
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Post by dapellegrini on Oct 17, 2022 17:47:03 GMT -8
I have a certain amount of vinyl records - far too many, my wife says/could be more, I think. Mainly Jazz and that odd music we used to listen to in the 80s, but classic music occupies considerable shelf space as well. Art is another thing. I wouldn't call it a collection, but I am getting more and more problems finding some free space on the walls... Oh man, on my list is an amazing collection of old jazz on vinyl!
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Post by dapellegrini on Oct 17, 2022 17:55:34 GMT -8
scubarob99 - old books/comics are a lot of fun. I collect old collectors catalogs - mainly coin and tokens publications from the 1800's and early 1900's. A post for another day. #photo-or-its-not-real
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Post by dapellegrini on Oct 17, 2022 17:56:55 GMT -8
SeikoFreek - lol. I keep my flare on my wrist and try not to be too loud elsewhere - but "respect" in my best Ali-G. Perhaps some day I will be so daring!
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Post by dapellegrini on Oct 17, 2022 17:59:35 GMT -8
small - I also collect tools, but more for practical reasons. I love having too many of a specific thing because I appreciate it more than others! trilo - examples? Your collection strategy sounds similar to mine over the years. I have tons of "old", and I would argue "important" tech and tech-related items.
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Post by trilo on Oct 17, 2022 20:45:08 GMT -8
Few quickies from the bookself. The only book I paid money for is the tool book, which was about 5 euros. Rest of them I have gotten for free. Ironically, the tool book is the least valuable of them all (worth about 5e). Amerikan Suomalaisia (American Finns) 1922-1927 by Werner Nikander. Book full of photos and a little snipet of information about people who moved from Finland to America or are second generation Finns in America. I find it fascinating to just browse it from time to time and see what they did and where they came from. Amazing book and one fo my favourites. Book about tools by Albert Jackson and David Day. Translated. I usually buy stuff in their original language. This I bought from my co-worker and I was pleasantly surprised. I know tools quite well, but this book has taught me a thing or two. This is a huge 2 volume book. It's a facsimile of a book by Olaus Magnus Gothus (1490-1557) called "Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus" (History of northern peoples). I think it is the first written source that speaks about Finns in detail. Mind you, I think the 2 volume set I have in Finnish is only about Finns and there is loads more. The original picture plates for his work were carved in Rome, so you'll see Lappish scenes executed by 16th century Italians! Book about watches by W.Schultz (orignal work is from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries). Impressive work both horologically and linguistically. Written in German and then translated into Finnish. I mean this book is thorough and explains every, single, step. Let me repeat: every, single, step. No one has time to do stuff like this anymore! Also, I think they had to come up with a bunch of new words for the watch parts in Finnish! It's a good read and still valid today.
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Post by trilo on Oct 18, 2022 0:06:24 GMT -8
This is from my work place, where I brought my 7e WMF rescue dog. I had to straighten the legs and tail. Took me a while to come up with a method, but boiling the dog worked wonders.
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Post by scubarob99 on Oct 18, 2022 6:16:02 GMT -8
scubarob99 - old books/comics are a lot of fun. I collect old collectors catalogs - mainly coin and tokens publications from the 1800's and early 1900's. A post for another day. #photo-or-its-not-real To photograph would be as daunting as pulling watches from boxes and cases. I'll attempt some. The books....most signed, lined, dated. Some with a personal stamp or numbered
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Post by scubarob99 on Oct 18, 2022 6:21:29 GMT -8
The comics. My most prized possessions are slabbed- key issues and all artists signatures obtained in person Then there's the red dresser filled with plastic boxes of comics, some full runs, some I just bought because I remember the covers when I was 10. Obviously Stan Lee being my grail (double signed- my silver sharpie failed, his didn't) Rob
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Post by dapellegrini on Oct 18, 2022 15:39:25 GMT -8
Love all the photos - what cool collections! Carrying on with the cellphone theme - I guess I got a bit obsessive - right to left is each version of the iPhone from the original through perhaps the 11 or so - but not every color - I'm not THAT nuts... Plus the first few Apple Watches and iPads, and that's an Apple Newton on the bottom right. EDIT: left to right... iPad 2, iPhone 11, iPhone X, iPhone 7, iPhone 6, iPhone 5, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and iPhone 2G. Then the iPad Gen 1 book ending them. The ones laying face down are mainly alternate colors (usually white vs black) and mostly middle-gen "S" type releases. The iPhone X and 8 released at the same time, and there was no "9". And yes, nearly all of the Motorolas, Blackberries and iPhones were my personal phones. Probably about 75% of them all.
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Post by Myles on Oct 18, 2022 15:40:46 GMT -8
An example of every Blackberry phone until they went Android, at my office. Nice collection! I had a Pearl and a Curve before switching to iPhones. Is that a vintage MacBook?
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