What Else Do You Collect?

When I was younger, I collected baseball cards and elongated coins for a time, in addition to coins. Now the only thing I collect is U.S. coinage.

Guybrush - Just one more painting and then I'll stop!

Ok, I hope this doesn't bog down the server. It would be easier to say what don't I or my wife and I don't collect. Our entire house is like being in a small museum or second hand store full of everything from signed baseballs to glass bottles from the 1906 San Fransisco Earthquake. The only way to show any of it is with numerous pictures. The pics aren't the greatest, my IPad 2 does not take very good pics. Many of you are probably not aware how the damaged buildings, human remains, garbage, etc.. We're disposed of after the 1906 SF quake.

With the overwhelming amount of debri from the quake and fires, city officials had no idea where to dump everything so an arrangement was made to load everything onto barges on the SF bay and bring them to land owned by Mare Island Navel Shipyard in Vallejo calif. in the weeks following the quake and knowing under all the debri from the fire and fallen buildings that there weren't going to be any survivors and they would be lucky if any remains could be identified. They brought in huge, for the time, bulldozers and begin to load everything into the barges and floated them to a site directly across the river from Mare Island to unload.
Years later word some how got out where this dump site was and people begin to dig around to see what they could find. Amongst some of the things that have been found are numerous perfume bottles, sterling silver make up cases, diamond rings, pocket watches, guns, coins, marbles, porcelain figurines, you name it, it's been found including human remains!
My wife and I have spent 100's of hours there digging around wearing gloves and masks for our protection and have found many things including rings, watches, and too many bottles to even inventory.
Not very thing in the pictures that I'm uploading are from the 1906 quake, mainly %99 of the bottles you see are. The rest of the endless items we have picked up here and there or have been inherited . BTW, the pics only represent about a 1/4 of what we have collected through out or lives.
I apologize if ther a duplicate pics. It's hard to see what I'm uploading.
So, here we go....

Tell me about it Coinfrog! Like I said' this only represents about a 1/4 of it. I really wish that I had a nice digital camera. Most of this stuff is in extremely good shape if not pristine condition. BTW, I stopped bringing things home a few years ago with the exception of coins. Now I need to either get the wife to stop (we all know that will never happen) or get a bigger place

Coinfrog- Do you like old paintings?

USSID - Asking me if I like old paintings is like asking my grandkids whether they like chocolate!

Beautiful paintings Coinfrog! Your house is like an art museum with those extraordinary portraits