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What things other than M:TG do people collect?
« on: Nov 20th, 2003, 9:16pm » |
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What else does everyone collect besides M:TG? I personally collect swords and knives. Most are fantasy replicas, many Gil Hiben pieces, but I do have some antique or original pieces. My oldest piece being an bone handled armor splitter from the 10th century. My most valuable piece in my collection is King Henry III's sword from his attempted invasion of Sicily, yes the actual sword itself from which my father bought it from a good friend of his who had it in his collection for 26 years. My coolest piece though is a Luftwaffe officer's dagger. My grandfather got the dagger by killing a German officer who parachuted out of his failing plane in WWII. The dagger is in great condition with only minor pitting on the blade. The scabbard and hilt are in near perfect shape and the embossed emblem is still 100% intact with no excessive wear.
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Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect?
« Reply #1 on: Nov 21st, 2003, 3:57pm » |
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i collect just about everything. I'm a packrat. I have collections of many other types of cards, coins, comics, I save all my international mail envelopes for the stamps, music (i even still buy records). I don't collect knives though  That takes effort. All my other collections are casual.
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Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect?
« Reply #2 on: Nov 21st, 2003, 5:01pm » |
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I also used to do VHS tapes which is now laughable in the DVD-world. I have well over 600 movies on original tape. (Sigh) Now they just take up room on multimedia shelves in the basement.
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Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect?
« Reply #4 on: Nov 21st, 2003, 5:50pm » |
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on Nov 21st, 2003, 5:23pm, dragsamou wrote:
Hi Members.
I do collect a lot of things beside Magic Rarities:
-Baseball Caps:All kinds.
-BD:Alix.Barbe Rouge.Jugurtha.
-Books of Paintings: Only Free Figuration(Figuration libre)
-CD:All kinds.
-Coins:Euros Only First Edition..
-Comics:Conan and Wolverine.
-DVD: Only Collectors Edition.
-Fossils:All Kinds.
-Knives:Tribal and War only.
-Playstation Games:Role Playing and Similar Products.
-Sand:From all over the World.
-Stamps:From all over the World.
-Tapes:All Kinds.
-T-Shirt:From all over the World.
-X Files Cards,Books,Products.
I will skip the minor ones 
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Wow Alexis, do you collect a lot. I get mint proof sets of US coins every year. Have them going back to the mid-80's. Funny you mentioned fossils. Do you ever go fossil hunting yourself? I used to quite frequently as a kid. We would go to a abandoned strip mine about 2 hours away from where I live now and search. We mainly found ferns as the area was a low sea millions of years ago, but I did find a trilobyte and an old snail like creature before. My dad used to take us as kids all the time. I haven't been in years.
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Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect?
« Reply #5 on: Nov 21st, 2003, 6:19pm » |
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I collect way too many things too:
Records/ CD's- I have about 1500 albums, many are hard to find and/ or colorful
Rock & Roll memorabilia & autographs- I have stuff from music videos, concerts, David Bowie artwork, Frank Zappa's will (no joke), a few hundred autographs, etc. You name it. - I esp. go for: Frank Zappa (notice my username), David Bowie, Spinal Tap, Weird Al, Traveling Wilburys, Tori Amos, Pixies, many more.
Converse shoes- I have 35 pairs in Size 13... as a heterosexual male I spend a bit of time defending myself on that...but many are really interesting.
I've kept all of my toys from when I was younger, & being a completist & a packrat I've bought more Star Wars & retro stuff over the years...
I'll stop now!
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Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect?
« Reply #6 on: Nov 21st, 2003, 8:02pm » |
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mintcollector, do you have a picture or something like that?
i would love to see that dagger,
i studied history for 3 years..
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Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect?
« Reply #7 on: Nov 21st, 2003, 9:13pm » |
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on Nov 21st, 2003, 8:02pm, AXIOS wrote:
mintcollector, do you have a picture or something like that?
i would love to see that dagger,
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Of the Luftwaffe dagger? No I don't, but I can take some with my digital camera this weekend. I'll try and get some pics done this weekend.
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Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect?
« Reply #8 on: Nov 21st, 2003, 9:19pm » |
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There also is a party slogan on the blade itself:
"Alles für Deutschland" which I believe means Everything for Germany.
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Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect?
« Reply #9 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 7:19am » |
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I've collected many things over my life. I think the first thing that I collected were beer cans in the early 70's.
then I collected hot wheels had over 20,000 at one time. I hate to admit it but I collected precious moments with my ex. it was more her collection but my need to collect and search for things i found most of all the original ones for the collection witch she got in the divorce. not that i wanted them but I could have sold them and bought several alpha and beta sets with the money  I have an original wyvern set and every d+d book ever made. my friends say i collect kids too having 5 of my own lol
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Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect?
« Reply #10 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 4:54pm » |
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on Nov 21st, 2003, 5:50pm, mintcollector wrote:
Wow Alexis, do you collect a lot. I get mint proof sets of US coins every year. Have them going back to the mid-80's. Funny you mentioned fossils. Do you ever go fossil hunting yourself? I used to quite frequently as a kid. We would go to a abandoned strip mine about 2 hours away from where I live now and search. We mainly found ferns as the area was a low sea millions of years ago, but I did find a trilobyte and an old snail like creature before. My dad used to take us as kids all the time. I haven't been in years.
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Hi Mike.
I went Hunting Fossils when I was a Kid,funny you mentioned that,brings back old good kid memories
Never went back since,but still collect them.
My coolest piece though is a Luftwaffe officer's dagger.
I have the same story with my Granfather,but the Dagger is from a German Naval Officer.
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Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect?
« Reply #11 on: Nov 22nd, 2003, 5:06pm » |
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on Nov 21st, 2003, 6:19pm, fvzappa wrote:
I collect way too many things too:
Records/ CD's- I have about 1500 albums, many are hard to find and/ or colorful
Converse shoes- I have 35 pairs in Size 13... as a heterosexual male I spend a bit of time defending myself on that...but many are really interesting.
I've kept all of my toys from when I was younger, & being a completist & a packrat I've bought more Star Wars & retro stuff over the years...
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HI Fvzappa.
1500 Albums is a Nice Collection.I used to have as much
since I was a DJ in my early days But my records Collection get stolen...That day,I think I was going to die
of a heart Attack 
Since then,I have Not one Record anymore,and I try over the years to replace them by CD.
Converse Shoes.
I do collect shoes also
I still have my Converse "Camouflage".Pretty Rare.Do you have them?
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Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect?
« Reply #12 on: Nov 24th, 2003, 5:53am » |
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Ah, yes, the Camo's. I've got the traditional "army" camo w/ shades of green/brown/tan. I've also got "suburban camo", which is the same concept w/ shades of blue & black. I guess they blend in w/ a pool liner...
The more unusual ones I have are snake skin (fake BTW), hawiiian sunset,peace signs, & an Olympic pair w/ flags of all the competing countries on the shoes. Most of the pairs are USA made too.
Sorry to hear your records were stolen. Most of the records I've picked up really cheap, over the past 5-10 years. Save for a few rare gems, most cost me 33 cents, maybe 50 cents each. Problem is, my record buying has all but stopped, everywhere I go I see the same albums! I've already got them or flat out don't want them. And, everyone insists I shoud be a DJ, I actually wouldn't mind doing it sometime.
A big problem too- the smaller, independant stores that sell records are dropping like flies, only the mall stores are around, & I've hated paying so much for the latest albums. So, records are really disappearing.
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Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect?
« Reply #13 on: Nov 24th, 2003, 7:05pm » |
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I picked up a "Meet the Beatles" original press in mediocre condition at a garage sale for 2 bucks . I didn't know what it was worth so I haggled him down from 3. Anyway, if you're interested no biggie, I dont collect albums. Mainly I just collect dust.
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Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect?
« Reply #14 on: Nov 25th, 2003, 12:20pm » |
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Sure, dry_cereal. I'll want that, I only have 3 Beatles records.
I've found 13 crimped cards so far, they sit on top of my computer. I'm still looking for more....
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