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Post by Kimby on Apr 9, 2011 22:08:13 GMT
My dad collects......everything. He has scads of tools and pieces/parts for all kinds of projects. Though his memory is getting bad and he can't remember how to fix things, he can take me to exactly the drawer or box or shelf where the item I need to fix it is located. And probably more than one of them, in several sizes. It will really be interesting excavating and dispersing his "collection" when it's time to empty the home for its next occupants. (I hope that will be a long, long time from now.)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2011 19:33:24 GMT
When I emptied the parental garage, I had to decide which tool items and nuts and bolts and all of that other stuff would interest my brother when he came to pick up the stuff I was putting in storage. When I had to give up at the end and sell the contents of the house to a liquidator who offered between 5 and 10% of the value of the various items (furniture, equipment...), he was totally crestfallen when I told him that I had already removed a lot of the stuff in the garage. It was very clearly what interested him the most.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 1, 2011 6:34:33 GMT
"So what exactly is the Shelburne? It is clearly a collection of collections ... " Did anyone see this article in the NYTimes? O.K., then, is this a museum of odd homemade artifacts or believe-it-or-not curiosities? Perhaps. Enter an 1835 brick farmhouse and see 167 glass canes; portable ink wells from the 18th and 19th centuries; and snuff boxes that look like rams’ horns — because they are. One gallery is lined with the world’s largest museum collection of trivets. Is this a folk art institution, then? How else to explain an enormous hanging copper molar, once used as a dentist’s street sign? Or weathervanes in the shape of mermaids and locomotives? But also no, because hanging on the wall inside that Greek Revival mansion are paintings by Monet, Manet, Courbet and Mary Cassatt. And on the walls of another building here (which looks like an Appalachian hunting lodge) are hung not Impressionists, but heads of buffalo, moose and deer. In yet another building are 19th-century French automatons, one of a tipsy chef. Read it & look at the pictures: www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/arts/design/shelburne-museum-in-vermont.html
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Post by Kimby on Jun 11, 2011 15:49:29 GMT
The House on the Rock at Baraboo Wisconsin began as an eccentric house perched on top of a pillar of limestone, but has grown to included many collections. You can spend all day here (and you might want to, to make good use of the exorbitant admission charge!) www.thehouseontherock.com/HOTR_Attraction_TicsAndTours_Reg_Tour3.htmMy favorites are the band organs, part of the Organ Collection:
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2012 13:33:56 GMT
I keep coins from all trips and many are no longer in circulation, so I have them in a huge jar at home which is filled to capacity, seconded by another large jar that is not full yet. I have always been amazed at the number of people who give me all of their foreign coins, which I never ask for -- but they know I keep them and apparently most people do not. I find this very odd, considering foreign coins not to be "real money". I received the largest contributions in 2002 when the euro started -- just about everybody had coins from Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Greece, etc. And nobody wanted to keep any of them.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 31, 2012 13:36:19 GMT
I keep coins from all trips and many are no longer in circulation, so I have them in a huge jar at home which is filled to capacity, seconded by another large jar that is not full yet. I have always been amazed at the number of people who give me all of their foreign coins, which I never ask for -- but they know I keep them and apparently most people do not. I find this very odd, considering foreign coins not to be "real money". I received the largest contributions in 2002 when the euro started -- just about everybody had coins from Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Greece, etc. And nobody wanted to keep any of them. Thos Drachma might come in useful yet..........
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Post by tod2 on Jan 31, 2012 15:28:59 GMT
Most of our 'precious' coins have been bought at auction and are catalogued or if proof quality like some of the Kruger Rands, they are in a velvet box. These are purely for investment purposes and do not create the excitement that an old - very very old coin can ! I love buried treasure - on land or sea so have coins found on old shipwrecks, buried coins found when my brother was ploughing up a farmers field, and a fake rare English coin, namely a Charles I Crown - they have only found ten genuine ones. I took it to the British Museum to see what information their coin department could give me. It's worth a few bob even though fake! Here it is: www.treasurerealm.com/coinpapers/england/Crwn_Charles_I.html
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Post by rikita on Feb 10, 2012 21:10:09 GMT
i kept coins for a while and have a box full of them somewhere. it is a space issue after a while though (of course i could start a second box, but then, what use really is some box full of coins buried somewhere) - even more problematic with bank notes as i always want them to be on display, so for a while i had a cardboard on a wall full of bank notes i glued there. eventually i got rid of it trying to make my place look a bit more ordered...
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 15, 2012 2:16:07 GMT
I've had collections of things, but I was never super zealous. Time & moving meant that I've dispersed any collections, without regrets. I used to collect fish-themed items. Also had quite a few nice teapots.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2012 18:55:45 GMT
I am incapable of collecting seriously. So I sometimes fob things off to my OCD brother.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2012 11:52:18 GMT
I was an avid collector of a variety of things over the years. I can't remember my last acquisition. (aside from books....) Too much stuff already,not enough money,too little interest.. If I had the time and money I wouldn't mind collecting some of the cool expensive exotic plants I see online. Rugs are nice too, but,not with the 'rug wars' still on here.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 16, 2012 11:57:00 GMT
I was an avid collector of a variety of things over the years. I can't remember my last acquisition. (aside from books....) Too much stuff already,not enough money,too little interest.. If I had the time and money I wouldn't mind collecting some of the cool expensive exotic plants I see online. Rugs are nice too, but,not with the 'rug wars' still on here. Not rival rugs gangs? Rugs cartels?
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Post by onlymark on Feb 16, 2012 13:17:28 GMT
I think casi has misunderstood something. Rug is slang in the US for a wig. Since the floods in NOLA there have been a great shortage of them, they tended to float away. They are in such short supply that rival gangs of bald people have been attempting to corner the market. Each gang has it's own area of the city and it gives new meaning to the phrase 'turf wars'.
Let the puns commence.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 16, 2012 13:48:50 GMT
Of course in the UK they are known as Syrups or Irish.
Are these ethnic gangs?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2012 14:20:40 GMT
I think casi has misunderstood something. Rug is slang in the US for a wig. Since the floods in NOLA there have been a great shortage of them, they tended to float away. They are in such short supply that rival gangs of bald people have been attempting to corner the market. Each gang has it's own area of the city and it gives new meaning to the phrase 'turf wars'. Let the puns commence. Yes,and carpetbaggers were Northerners who came South after the Civil War....
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2012 19:19:55 GMT
Rugs are nice too, but,not with the 'rug wars' still on here. Missed seeing this. What are the rug wars? Are they like price wars?
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Post by htmb on Nov 14, 2012 4:25:05 GMT
I have a few small collections, but this one is extra special. When I was a child I use to ride my horse through the fields after they'd been harrowed (plowed) and look for arrowheads left by native Americans who had lived in the area many years before. I always tried to think what life must have been like for them. I found a few prizes and later combined mine with those found by my father. Most of what you see in the photo are arrowheads made out of flint. The dark red, small arrowhead has a lot of iron in the stone, so I'm not sure it was from the area originally. I cannot remember much about the black stone. I think it's obsidian and I might have gotten it from somewhere else and just added it to the collection because I liked it. That's how my eleven year old mind usually worked. Some of the flint appears to have been used for scraping, rather than as a point, and the top two are sharks teeth.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 14, 2012 5:13:57 GMT
That's really, really nice, Htmb! It always seems such a miracle to find an arrowhead to begin with, then, as you say, you're drawn into thinking about the lives of the people who made and used them. There's another thread somewhat related to collecting, but that veers off in another direction. Check it out, please, just in case you have anything you neeeed to show there. ;D anyportinastorm.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=arts&action=display&thread=4649&page=1
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2012 21:47:12 GMT
I remember looking for arrowheads when I was little, and my brother and I might have found some. But I have no idea what happened to them.
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Post by htmb on Nov 15, 2012 4:45:18 GMT
Perhaps your brother kept them.
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Post by rikita on Nov 15, 2012 5:45:20 GMT
no arrowheads where i grew up. but we had a russian soldier give us pins to put on our jackets once.
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Post by bjd on Nov 15, 2012 7:58:54 GMT
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Post by rikita on Nov 15, 2012 19:34:33 GMT
will have a look...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2014 20:37:09 GMT
I recall reading in another thread somewhere that TOD2 collects soda siphons. Please tell us more about your collection, when did you start collecting them, why, how many do you have etc. Maybe some pics? I've always found them to be really cool. I saw one or two on ebay recently and am dithering about which one I want the most. Thanks!
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Post by bjd on Feb 6, 2014 8:18:07 GMT
You should go to Buenos Aires, casimira. There is a flea market in Plaza Dorrego on Sundays:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2014 13:43:07 GMT
That reminds of the husband of a colleague who collected antique perfume bottles. But he was an executive at Lancôme-L'Oréal so his interest in them was easy to understand.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2014 15:04:48 GMT
WOW!!! Are all those yours Tod?
Unlikely I'll be making a trip to Buenos Aires anytime soon.
I saw one at a flea market in NYC recently and am kicking myself for not having purchased it.I was way downtown and didn't feel like schlepping it around for the rest of the day and had other purchases already in my sack.
I love the mesh like covered ones.
I used to have a slew of really nice antique bottles. I gave most of them away over the years. The most recent one I gave my niece. It was a crystal Art Nouveau round bottle with gorgeous sterling silver Art Nouveau floral motif inlay covering it and the stopper was silver inlaid as well. It was my mother's and given to her by an elderly friend of hers. I was a wee reluctant in giving it away, it was that beautiful but, my niece sooooo loved it, it was worth it. As an aside to the story, my niece had a gift for me, a bottle of one of my favorite perfumes, Chloe. Synchronicity and serendipity both.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 6, 2014 15:42:33 GMT
Absolutely wonderful photograph, Bjd! I love your pics from South America, and this one is unexpected & wonderful.
Any chance of your nipping back down there & getting that fish in the lower right corner for me, please?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2014 16:22:12 GMT
WHOOPS!! Sorry BJD. I thought the post was Tod's. Thank you for another fabulous glimpse of all the cool places you have traveled and your keen eye.
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Post by bjd on Feb 6, 2014 16:22:49 GMT
Sorry, Bixa. No plans for a trip to S America for the time being. I imagine that fish is gone by now -- the picture was taken in October 2006.
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