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I collect license plates. I’ve gotten a couple from antique stores but most are from car bumpers on the side of the road. Only have 8 right now but it’s growing. I use them as decorations in my room, hang them up on my wall.
I also have quite the comic book collection handed down from my uncle. All in mint condition, probably over 3,000 comics. Very early editions as well, if I went through could probably make quite a lot of money…someday.
i also collect international money, here’s just a couple of my paper money. I have some more. Most are very very old money and probably could never use them.
Russian rubles, Chilean pesos, Argentine pesos, Spanish pesetas, Italian Lira.
I also have quite the comic book collection handed down from my uncle. All in mint condition, probably over 3,000 comics. Very early editions as well, if I went through could probably make quite a lot of money…someday.
i also collect international money, here’s just a couple of my paper money. I have some more. Most are very very old money and probably could never use them.
Russian rubles, Chilean pesos, Argentine pesos, Spanish pesetas, Italian Lira.
For several years I was really into collecting decks of Bicycle Playing Cards. I must have collected close to 100 unique decks, it could have been even more. I still have all of them stored away in the attic too. This makes me want to fetch them out tomorrow.
Maybe it's just me, but...I don't think that stealing licence plates off of parked cars along the roadway in any qualifies as "collecting".
Is that a California thing?
Is that a California thing?
Not PARKED cars, wrecked bumpers. Normally just on the desert roads in middle of nowhere. It’s just the bumper.Maybe it's just me, but...I don't think that stealing licence plates off of parked cars along the roadway in any qualifies as "collecting".
Is that a California thing?
I also collect different currencies. A lot of pokemon cards, alcohol/beverage bottles and cans, seashells and plants, right now im collecting more aquarium plants!
When I was a kid there was a famous tea bag manufacturer who used to put picture cards in boxes of tea bags. There'd be a picture on one side and a brief description on the other.
They could be anything. Cars, plants, animals, famous people, all sorts of things. There'd be maybe 40 or 50 cards in each set, and the challenge was always to get full sets before the tea bag manufacturer moved onto the next set of cards.
As well as our own tea bags I also had aunties and uncles and some friends passing their cards onto me too. I don't recall completing any full sets in all my time collecting as a kid. I was always a few cards shy of the holy grail.
All those part sets of cards that I had boxed up have long since gone. But a few years ago now I was looking at a website regarding collectables and came across a site that specialised in full sets of all the cards I used to collect as a kid!
And one such collection grabbed me immediately.....freshwater fish!! I sent off for them and my idea was to put them up on the wall in my fish room, something which I never got round to.
Below is a snippet of the set. There are 50 cards in this particular set.
They could be anything. Cars, plants, animals, famous people, all sorts of things. There'd be maybe 40 or 50 cards in each set, and the challenge was always to get full sets before the tea bag manufacturer moved onto the next set of cards.
As well as our own tea bags I also had aunties and uncles and some friends passing their cards onto me too. I don't recall completing any full sets in all my time collecting as a kid. I was always a few cards shy of the holy grail.
All those part sets of cards that I had boxed up have long since gone. But a few years ago now I was looking at a website regarding collectables and came across a site that specialised in full sets of all the cards I used to collect as a kid!
And one such collection grabbed me immediately.....freshwater fish!! I sent off for them and my idea was to put them up on the wall in my fish room, something which I never got round to.
Below is a snippet of the set. There are 50 cards in this particular set.
I collect historic bricks. That is, bricks with names or other features. Most of what I have are from the US but I do have a couple of UK ones. This is the display collection in the basement. Other arrangements out of duplicates are throughout the garden features outside. Anybody collects bricks? I have plenty of duplicates and would like to trade with like-minded folks. Cheers!
What a fascinating collection. Here in the UK we have quite a famous brick. I believe they were shipped to America way back and were actually used in the foundations of the Empire state building....they are known as Accrington bricks.
Accrington is a small town about 8 miles from where I live. They were actually manufactured in another nearby small town called Altham, but for some reason they are simply known as Accy brick.
Yeah, sure, that's the way it starts; you're just one small step away from dropping boulders off overpasses onto cars passing underneath that happen to have cool plates from states you need for your collection...
Esox, I remember those cards; they were a thing here in Canada as well. I think it was either Lipton or Red Rose tea that had them. I had a bunch; fish, reptiles, birds, insects...long ago lost to the mists of time.
The ones I remember most fondly were not collected from tea, but rather from cigars! My father was a smoker of White Owl cigars, and that brand for many years included a beautiful little card in each box of five cigars that bore a reproduction of a painting by J.Fenwick Lansdowne, an incredible artist who created a series of paintings of North American birds. It was called "Birds of the Northern Forest" and is most often seen collected into a large coffee-table book, but the cards were beautifully printed little miniatures. They were about the size of standard playing cards, and I desperately wanted the whole set; to this day I vividly recall the thrill of the chase as I relentless hunted the final card I needed to complete my set...the elusive Boreal Owl. I also remember the feeling of utter despair whenever my dad sent me to the local general store to buy...a single cigar! Horrors! I nagged him incessantly to buy them by the five-pack, but his innate Ukrainian thriftiness...which has proved to be hereditary...made him uncomfortable with that. He preferred to buy them individually; I became such a fixture in that little store that the shopkeep took pity on me and saved the cards from cigar 5-packs that he broke up to sell singles, giving them to me.
Back then it was completely acceptable for a 10-year-old to bicycle a few miles to the store, tell the shopkeep to "put it on my dad's account", and then to walk out with tobacco!
Mind you, there was usually a comic book or two as well...Don't try that in 2023 in Canada!
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