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I like unusual musical instruments. I have an african tongue drum, bowed psaltery, Ludwig Stradivarius musical saw, and a hammered dulcimer, besides the more common instruments - two pianos and a semi-grand pedal harp.
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I think my collection would be complete with the addition of a theramin and a glass armonica.


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glass armonica
 
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jjohnwm said:
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.
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jjohnwm said:
The ones I remember most fondly were not collected from tea, but rather from cigars!
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In the UK it was the "Brooke Bond" brand of tea which came with the cards. They stopped putting picture cards in many years ago.

And yes, cigarettes also came with picture cards too. So if you were a chain smoking tea drinker who collected those cards, happy days lol.

By the way, there is an actual word for the collection of those picture cards. It is called Cartophily! A nice little interesting fact for the day, lol.
 
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pacu mom said:
I like unusual musical instruments. I have an african tongue drum, bowed psaltery, Ludwig Stradivarius musical saw, and a hammered dulcimer, besides the more common instruments - two pianos and a semi-grand pedal harp.
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I think my collection would be complete with the addition of a theramin and a glass armonica.


theramin



glass armonica
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Can you play either of those? I was saw a documentary about the Theramin and it was fascinating
 
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jjohnwm said:
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... :ROFL:
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You never know…

license plates are actually more interesting than you think. For example, the current UK back and front plates follows the license plate setup of a 2-3 letter area code, an age identifier, and then two random characters. The area code depends on where the vehicle is registered. The first letter of the alphabet determines where in general the plate comes from, for example L for London, and the second letter determines where more specifically it comes from, LA-J for Wimbledon. The age identifier is the last 2 digits of the year, 23 out of 2023 when said plate is issued from March-August, or 73 for 2023 when issued from September-February (+50 to the 2 last digits of the year). The Last part is 3 random letters, excluding I and Q.

License plates also have fascinating histories that track back to the early settlers, and many plates look similar to their other geographically close countries. There are also fun little quirks you can notice yourself. I haven’t done any research on California license plates but all standard-issue plates follow the format of #XXX###, and truck plates follow the format #X##### or #####X#
 
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Much more money into my fish “hobby” but i am a sucker for BC rich guitars also haha…
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FJB said:
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!

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Thats pretty cool. I find quite a few distinctive old bricks on the job around the railroad. This ones my favorite:
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