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In my years of collecting I have found that many coin collectors are also "crossover" collectors. That is they have other interests or collections that they follow beside coins.
I collect Royal Doulton figurines, Stamps and Comic Books. Not so much the comic books anymore. I really like the Royal Doulton figurine and U.S. Stamps however.
Here is one of the Royal Doulton I was just outbid on:
I used to have a massive stamp collection but have been using it for postage now for about 5 years. In this area stamps are heavily collected but not a dealer in sight and if you do find one, well, he won't even pay face value. Ebay has helped as it offers an opportunity to sell things if needed. I have even sold a few baseball cards on Ebay that I have had for years and years. Local card dealers won't buy anything older than 1985 as they claim todays collector didn't know them players so they won't buy the cards. Basically I, after collecting just about everything in my life, have settled into coins but expanded in to world coins starting in 2002.
In my years of collecting I have found that many coin collectors are also "crossover" collectors. That is they have other interests or collections that they follow beside coins.
I collect Royal Doulton figurines, Stamps and Comic Books. Not so much the comic books anymore. I really like the Royal Doulton figurine and U.S. Stamps however.
Collections, hobbies, & interests beyond coins: Antique firearms (latest acquisition: M1866 .50-70 "trapdoor" Springfield); Boy Scout patches and other BSA insignia; genealogy; ham radio. I used to have a world-class collection of empty Bic pens, but I sold it.
These days, I seem to give a LOT of people advice on how to buy/sell on eBay. Not sure if this counts as an "interest".
I like to collect postcards. Seems like they have one for everything and they usually don't cost that much. There's also trading cards. I'd like to get one of the Cigerette Smoking Man--(CSM) from the X-Files. He's a wonderful cynic.
"Paper [money] is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it."--Francisco d' Anconia Atlas Shrugged--Ayn Rand
I like to collect postcards. Seems like they have one for everything and they usually don't cost that much. There's also trading cards. I'd like to get one of the Cigerette Smoking Man--(CSM) from the X-Files. He's a wonderful cynic.
Not to get too far OT, but IIRC, the CSM started off as a good guy, then became a bad guy, then in his own inimitable fashion, sort of became a good guy again? (BTW, the CSM actor William B. Davis did not smoke, used herbal cigarettes on X-Files.)
To return slightly OT, I believe the CSM rattled coins in his pocket as a displacement behavior. Also, I don't collect collectors' cards, but out of curiosity, who puts out the cards?
This is an Interesting thread !! Gives me a chance to share my sickness!
Besides coins I also collect Dice, Marbles, Rocks,soap box premium glassware from the 50's and 60's, I have a fairly large bullet (live Round) collection, RC Airplanes !And Raw uncut Gem Stones! I have a fair Novelty cigarette lighter collection as well, everything from aliens to Zippo.
Im not sure about everyone else ,but would be interested to know at what age the collector spirit showed up? For me it was around 6 ,I still have most of my Marbles !! LOL
This is an Interesting thread !! Gives me a chance to share my sickness!
Besides coins I also collect Dice, Marbles, Rocks,soap box premium glassware from the 50's and 60's, I have a fairly large bullet (live Round) collection, RC Airplanes !And Raw uncut Gem Stones! I have a fair Novelty cigarette lighter collection as well, everything from aliens to Zippo.
I just donated my cartridge collection to the rifle range at Scout Camp. I had a number of 19th century specimens including .50-70, .30-40, .32 rimfire, and a host of .69 and .58 bullets from old military post rifle ranges.
quote:Im not sure about everyone else ,but would be interested to know at what age the collector spirit showed up? For me it was around 6 ,I still have most of my Marbles !! LOL
I was told by my parents that I started collecting things as soon as I could grasp them as a toddler. Strange things like toothpaste caps, baby snakes, and broken toys. It's only been in recent years I've scaled down my collecting obsessions to coins, antique firearms, ham radio gadgets, and just gadgets in general. I'm told I didn't have any marbles to start with, so this isn't part of the equation.
My collecting interests started I think around age 9 when my dad pointed out these ballcards on the back of a Post Toasties box. I didn't even know what they were. Can still remember some of the ones on that first box: Duke Snider, Don Blasingame, Tito Francona, Luis Aparicio. Many more I obtained later and from different companies, but I don't have any vivid memories about how or where I got them. Of course, if I had kept that collection, I could have bought a house with the proceeds(as could many of us I'm sure), but for some unknown reason, I gave the cards to my 2 little brothers one day, and soon the cards were scattered and gone. The moral: don't ever give a collection of anything to those who are not collectors!
Since I have made mention of my other collections before, I will be brief in an attempt not to bore those who read this.
Other collections of interest:
70,000 plus National Geographics
70,000 plus post cards
50,000 plus baseball cards, owned jointly with my youngest son. Includes five Mickey Mantle cards.
Several hundred autographed pictures, including the last last eight Presidents, King Juan Carlos, Elvis, and Robert F. Kennedy.
Several hundred presidential campaign items, including pins from the campaigns of FDR, HST, JFK, Taft, and Wilson.
Newspaper front pages covering such events as the start and finish of WWII, first landing on the moon, JFK assassination, 9-11, and the New York Times front page for each Presidential election since 1900.
ANA: 42203 Collect US, Canadian, British, Australian Collector since 1956
First collection: Clipping out New York Yankees baseball stories from the Denver Rocky Mountain News,and gluing them in a scrapbook, probably about age eight.
Second collection: Buying a new encyclopedia volume each week from Safeway. Age 10.
Third collection: Bankbooks. First savings account fascinated me, so I added to it. Had 40 savings accounts before banks started charging for almost everything, so was forced to cash them in. I call this my third collection, but would have to find that original bank book to be certain of the date I opened it, and therefore my age at the time.
Not a real coin collector yet, but had small gathering of foreign coins, kept in a small metal file box by about age 14.
ANA: 42203 Collect US, Canadian, British, Australian Collector since 1956
On the very day Catman started this thread, I started yet another collection!
On Sept. 23, I was honored by Mesa State College of Grand Junction, Colorado, as one of five "2005 Distinguished Alumni."
At the dinner celebration we five were given a bronze Maverick (MSC mascot is a maverick), about eight inches long and six inches high. The casting was done by a MSC professor, and reportedly he is the only person in western Colorado who does this sort of work.
The bronze casting sits on a heavy base which includes a metal name plate, naming the recipient and the award.
I was so taken by its beauty, I have decided to collect similar items.
ANA: 42203 Collect US, Canadian, British, Australian Collector since 1956
Okay, I must confess, I do have another passion that I passed on to my kids and the little one I have here now is already interested. I have, off and on, collected bugs (yes insects) most of my life as I have always been fascinated by Mother Natures largest army! I got my little 3 year old interested already as he got to "touch" his first Praying Mantis just today. He is learning quick what is a good bug and what is a bad bug! Also love my shooting sports and have a small gun collection. My interests have changed throughout the years but in the past year or so black powder weapons have been much more fun than any thing I have ever done! Took my first buffalo on Jan. 2 in Kansas this year with a custom built Elk Hunter .54 cal. muzzleloader built by Deer Creek. Really nice having an international builder just 5 miles down the road!! Rumor has it the Elk Hunter will be produced again soon, due to heavy requests, so I may have to add another to my stash! Also collected military rifles for a while, and still have quite a few, but I now have black powder on the brain so.....?
Gee Crystalk I use to shoot black powder years ago. I still have an old navy .36 9Repo) and a New Army in .44. I guess I just got to disliking the cleaning requirements. We didn't have anything but the real Black Powder to shoot.
At some point, my firearms grew into what would be called a collection I guess. (about 40 guns) I'm down to five or six these days. Stamps, baseball cards, marbles, old Hot Rod and Car Craft Magazines, License Plates and National Geographics. I still have about 400 LP'S from the 60's, 70,s and 80's. Everything else was sold or given to active collectors. My wife and I still have a pretty nice rock and fossil collection. Coins since about age 8, and although constantly changing direction, the only one that has held my interest unabated!! Mike
Hot town summer in the city, back of my neck gettin' dirty and gritty. Cool cat lookin' for a kitty dressed so fine and a lookin'so pretty. All around the people lookin' half dead walkin' on the sidewalk hotter than a matchhead "Summer in the city","Lovin'Spoonful"
I Never feally thought of my weapons as a crossover collection before. I do have about 14 guns now two of them I'm licensed to carry. I have stayed away from the newer alloy guns, opting for the all steel. The 1911 A1 is still King..
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