Anybody collect old/unusual things?

[speccy1]

Non cycling related..........

I love vintage things, such as audio kit, household appliances, slide/film projectors, old heaters, vacuum cleaners etc etc etc

Also since I learnt to walk I have collected old and vintage christmas lights (yes, there are a few of us that I know of!!), always loved them and now have about £20K worth

So, what else do we collect guys?

 

[Hill Wimp]

Pottery and Ceramics.

I have been collecting them for years and have just unearthed several boxes of them in my parents attic that i had forgotten about. I am never interested in their monetary value, if i like it, i buy it and it gets displayed at home or given as a gift. It's mainly studio pottery pots and jugs from all over the world but i have quite a collection of a local pottery in Sussex.

I have always agreed with William Morris “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”

 

[snorri]

Firewood, cant resist picking up driftwood in the form of tree branches or just bits of wood from building operations etc.
I don't even live in a house with a chimney, but saw it up into manageable pieces for my neighbour, or friends if I think she already has enough.

 

[MontyVeda]

i haven't added to the collections for a while, but mincers and soda syphons are a common sight in my flat.
I also have lots of Hornsea Pottery's Contrast tableware... and i can't resist buying 12" vinyl if it has a really bad cover

 

[Hill Wimp]

i haven't added to the collections for a while, but mincers and soda syphons are a common sight in my flat.
I also have lots of Hornsea Pottery's Contrast tableware... and i can't resist buying 12" vinyl if it has a really bad cover

Your pottery is quite popular on EBay.

 

[speccy1]

i haven't added to the collections for a while, but mincers and soda syphons are a common sight in my flat.
I also have lots of Hornsea Pottery's Contrast tableware... and i can't resist buying 12" vinyl if it has a really bad cover

A flat full of mincers? Don`t say that too loudly, LOL!

 

[MontyVeda]

Your pottery is quite popular on EBay.

It's also very expensive in the local antiques centre, which is in the very same building that every piece of Contrast was made.

edit... and i've just spent the last ten minutes going throu Ebay and adding to the collection; soup bowls, 8" side plates and a vinegar/oil jar

 

[MontyVeda]

A flat full of mincers? Don`t say that too loudly, LOL!

good advice, but far too late!

 

[DCLane]

Old 17th & 18th century books. Also older Rado Swiss watches. Original paintings as well. But all of these are my 'alternative' retirement fund.

Oh, and bikes

 

[speccy1]

Old 17th & 18th century books. Also older Rado Swiss watches. Original paintings as well. But all of these are my 'alternative' retirement fund.

Oh, and bikes

I`m liking you thinking!

 

[swee'pea99]

old and vintage christmas lights (yes, there are a few of us that I know of!!), always loved them and now have about £20K worth

Twenty grand? Christmas lights? YeGods! Christmas lights? Seriously?

 

[MontyVeda]

Twenty grand? Christmas lights? YeGods! Christmas lights? Seriously?

i was assuming the 'K' was a typo.

 

[speccy1]

Twenty grand? Christmas lights? YeGods! Christmas lights? Seriously?

Believe it or not, yes!!

The prices have got silly over recent years, and I have been collecting them for the last 3 decades. Sets that I paid £1 for at car boot sales are now selling for £100 on ebay

 

[speccy1]

i was assuming the 'K' was a typo.

Certainly not

 

[Katherine]

Not things, but I collect homophones and write them in an old school exercise book.
..... And don't do what the family do, which is suggest a word that they think I don't already have and get all surprised when I show it to them.