What Else Do You Collect?

I used to collect baseball cards (1977-early 90's) I stopped once it was obvious the market was FLOODED and the standard issue cards weren't worth the paper they are printed on. I got out right before the "Only one of these cards was made. Find it in the 30 million packs we made this year" craze, which is still going on. Since the cards aren't worth much I can't even give them away.

The pride of my collection is my dad's complete 1958 Topps Football set. That's the one with Jim Brown's rookie card, he's listed as Jimmy Brown on the card. Once I convince the wife I'm going to send the whole set into PSA to get all the cards graded. To my untrained eye the Jim Brown looks like a PSA 6 or 7. He had many doubles that he sold off to buy other stuff. Out of all the extra cards he had naturally he had only one Jim Brown card. I guess that would make it the pride of my dad's collection

If I remember I'll post a picture of the Jim Brown card. Have to take my Prevagen.

I gave up on football & baseball cards when the "chase card" and "paralell set" craze kicked in. . .stuck with basketball for a bit longer. I have one baseball card from the 1950's and it dates from the year of my birth. Unfortunately, the back of the card has a wax / gum stain. I still treasure it.

I suspect genealogy can be considered a collection. As well as gathering the genealogy information, I cut out newspaper obituaries, wedding notices, or download the information from the internet.
I have travelled to many graveyards to take pictures of tombstones, plaques etc. Interviewed many relatives and archivists, veterans.
Very few of my extended family express interest in the large collection of documented family history.

Very nice!

Thank you, jbuck.

That intersects with my current "hobby" I posted on back in September.

Here's the most recent "upgrade to the collection," two gravestones uprighted with the help of a colleague who has good mechanical skills and designed a hoist to move the stones that need lifting (some can be uprighted using only gentle "elbow grease" but some need to be lifted out):



The one on the left with the gabled top dates to 1831, and the one on the right to 1840. The photo also exemplifies the trend in design preference away from "Federal style" shapes that prevailed (at least in our graveyard) from around 1800 to the 1830s, toward simple rectangular shapes in the 1840s.

They will get a cleaning next spring.

@GLB49: Thanks for sharing photos of some of your collectibles. I've always enjoyed seeing the classic hot rods during "Hot August Nights," an annual event spread out over many venues in Reno and Sparks, NV. This past summer, there were 5,500 vehicles registered.
https://hotaugustnights.net/hot-aug...ghts-events/

It's one of several major summer time events my adopted hometown stages to bring in tourism $$$.