What Else Do You Collect?

Cowboy style revolvers and lever actions are all I buy now.




A pair of third generation Colt Single Action Army revolvers.
Henry Big Boy Classic in .45 Colt.
Winchester Model 94 "Trails End" in .45 Colt.

Cool firearms and marbles!

Not a "collection" in the normal sense, but my wife and I have taken on responsibility for preserving the historic cemetery behind our church, so I am beginning to feel these gravestones are a sort of temporary collection of which we are custodians unil the next brave soul comes along, probably long after I am gone.
This cemetery had active burials only from 1804- c.1875 so everything is very old for Ohio. From a design viewpoint, here is the most interesting one we have:. It was carved by someone (possibly not here) just 20 years after the first settlers arrived.


What we know about the people buried here tells us a lot about the hardships of early 19th c. frontier life in America. During the late 1820s, nearly 40% of the burials were infants. We know we have nearly a dozen moms buried here who died in childbirth, sometime leaving 6 of 7 young ones behind. One poor man died a slow death after having fallen on his pitchfork. Another gravestone tells of a man who worked as a doctor while slowly dying of consumption (TB).
I have never appreciated modern medicine more.

Good question.

Our graveyard is well known, so Find a Grave already has many records. Here is their record on WIlliam Robe, whose photo I posted; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial...illiam-robe.

However, being crowd-sourced, and without a strong editing function, they also have a lot of mistakes.
They have no way to acknowledge who is the expert on a given cemetery, so I can't correct mistakes on ours (though I have tried).

This makes me reluctant to post new findings there.

canudigit and GLB49, as our resident experts on marbles, please help me with this one. I found this as a youngster when accompanying my father to look at a potential rent house purchase in an old part of town. It was poking up out of the ground in the yard, and I've had it for over 50 years. Many thanks for your assistance!

@ Hondo Boguss
I don't know anything about the collecting of old marbles even though most of mine are from the late fifties. I won them shooting marbles with friends.
Back then we used the larger marbles like yours as shooters because they were heavier and it was easier to knock the other marbles out of the circle in the dirt. You got to keep every marble you knocked out of the circle.

I played at recess and also with friends in my neighborhood. Some guys wouldn't get in the game if you used steelies as a shooters.