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Title: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by mintcollector on Nov 20th, 2003, 9:16pm 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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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by l0qii on Nov 21st, 2003, 3:57pm 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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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by mintcollector on Nov 21st, 2003, 5:01pm 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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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by dragsamou on Nov 21st, 2003, 5:23pm 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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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by mintcollector on Nov 21st, 2003, 5:50pm on 11/21/03 at 17:23:44, dragsamou 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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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by fvzappa on Nov 21st, 2003, 6:19pm 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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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by AXIOS on Nov 21st, 2003, 8:02pm 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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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by mintcollector on Nov 21st, 2003, 9:13pm on 11/21/03 at 20:02:08, AXIOS wrote:
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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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by mintcollector on Nov 21st, 2003, 9:19pm There also is a party slogan on the blade itself: "Alles für Deutschland" which I believe means Everything for Germany. |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by sylvanstu on Nov 22nd, 2003, 7:19am 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 ;D 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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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by dragsamou on Nov 22nd, 2003, 4:54pm on 11/21/03 at 17:50:35, mintcollector wrote:
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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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by dragsamou on Nov 22nd, 2003, 5:06pm on 11/21/03 at 18:19:07, fvzappa wrote:
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 ;D I still have my Converse "Camouflage".Pretty Rare.Do you have them? |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by fvzappa on Nov 24th, 2003, 5:53am 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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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by dry_cereal on Nov 24th, 2003, 7:05pm I picked up a "Meet the Beatles" original press in mediocre condition at a garage sale for 2 bucks ;D. 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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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by fvzappa on Nov 25th, 2003, 12:20pm 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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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by Tenacious_Dyl on Nov 26th, 2003, 12:18am Collect anything "old" or "ancient"... legitimate stuff. Not antique store crap. Ex: I have a coin that dates to around 1640, from a small division of spain, very rare :-) Also have some Maori (Native People of New Zealand) Carvings, and some Soapstone Carvings of Spirits from Belize. I am looking into getting some nice old Chinese wood carvings or tapestries... expensive though. Also collect foreign money, but in a very casual manner. I have a lot of money from the old "East Africa" and the "CCCP"... not very valuable, but still cool :-) |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by dragsamou on Nov 26th, 2003, 8:12am on 11/26/03 at 00:18:55, Tenacious_Dyl wrote:
Hi Tenacious_Dyl If you collect Foreign Banknotes,I could probably help you,since I have a lot(One of my Minor Collections). Let me know. |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by Lord_of_Llanowar on Nov 26th, 2003, 8:46pm I collect Shells Stones Fossiles Coins. Swords Daggers Smurfs Statues of pigs :D and probably some more things not coming to my mind right now. as a kid i was far worse and collected rubber bands, price cards, ALL stones(just about every stone i saw :D) and much more things i could get much off for free :D oh yeah, talking about albums and cd`s I know a guy who collects those, and cause he has very valuable cd`s he even put a insurance on that collection he has cd`s worth up to 20.000 euros :S |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by Tenacious_Dyl on Nov 26th, 2003, 10:49pm Dragsamou: Ooooo I like it. Another "to the side" collector. I have put maybe no more than 50-100 dollars on any one item. But perhaps.. (not quite yet, I need to save some money)... but.. in the future, I am very interested in Paper Money. (Especially from Countries no longer in existance!) We will talk some later? I think so :-) Thanks, Dylan I. |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by dry_cereal on Nov 27th, 2003, 4:23am Wow, I just got that fvzappa has something to do with frank zappa. :-[ Nice quote, you never ceise to amaze me. Yeah, lets do a lil trading. I can get you a bunch of less rare beatles, grateful dead, zappa records and the such. I live in the middle of hippie-haven (Ithaca NY). Land: Hippie-haven tap: add soymilk to your manapool anyway, until next time... Keep on truckin |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by Erl00 on Nov 29th, 2003, 2:04am I used to have a collection of fun erasers. I had more than 500 of them when I was young. |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by dragsamou on Nov 29th, 2003, 8:22am on 11/29/03 at 02:04:37, Erl00 wrote:
Hi Eric. Do you still have them ? |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by Erl00 on Nov 29th, 2003, 3:01pm on 11/29/03 at 08:22:56, dragsamou wrote:
Most of them must be somewhere atr my Mom's house if she did not threw them away ... |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by TerraFrost on Dec 4th, 2003, 5:07pm for those who collect coins... wanna trade some mtg cards for a 1914-D lincoln cent? the condition isn't uber great - i would estimate it to be around G-4 - but it is one of the key dates in the lincoln cent series :) also, anyone want to trade some mtg cards for a MS-64 (as graded by ANACS) 1882-CC morgan silver dollar? :) |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by Erl00 on Dec 5th, 2003, 8:39pm on 12/04/03 at 17:07:59, TerraFrost wrote:
I know flaminio is quite keen on coins though I have no idea whether he his looking for this one or not. |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by mintcollector on Dec 5th, 2003, 9:55pm on 12/05/03 at 20:39:40, Erl00 wrote:
I am not a huge coin collecctor anymore, but those coins are relatively "common". It would be like offering a Rarities collector a plain Serra Angel or something along those lines. I thought of Bob as well since I recall he is into coins. He might want to Morgan dollar, but the penny is easy to get. |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by bigfatkitty on Dec 5th, 2003, 10:01pm I don't collect anything else, but my wife says my many boxes of cards collect dust. Does that count? |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by TerraFrost on Dec 5th, 2003, 10:46pm i will grant that, as far as expensive coins are concerned, these aren't all that expensive, but then again, you have to consider the fact that coins command *much* higher prices than mtg cards. rare coins routinly sell for millions of dollars, while the rarest most unique mtg cards sell for, at most, $10,000 - $20,000. so while these coins may well be the serra angels of the coin world they're worth is more on par with the library of alexandria's from the mtg world. consider the 1914-D lincoln cent. it's a key date for a reason. actually, a number of reasons, heh. first, the 1914-D lincoln cent had a relatively low mintage as far as lincoln cents are concerned. the mintage, as given to my by coinfacts.com is a little over a million. the only other lincoln cent with a lower mintage is a little less than half a million, and that is the 1909-S VDB lincoln cent. contrast this with the mintage for the steel cents (which was around a billion, from ea. mint) and indeed, just about any recent lincoln cent, and you will see that the 1914-D is quite uncommon. further, while the 1909-S VDB cent was instantly known to be a rarity, the 1914-D cent wasn't. atleast not initially. the result of this is that it is harder to find a 1914-D cent in good condition than it is to find a 1909-S VDB cent, in good condition. in fact, an article on the PCGS website lists the 1914-D lincoln cent amonst the top 50 most highly demanded coins. http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article1775.chtml now consider the 1882-CC morgan silver dollar... that's not too rare, nor is it too sought after, but... that is more than made up for, imho, by it's condition of MS-64. |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by mintcollector on Dec 5th, 2003, 11:21pm on 12/05/03 at 22:46:57, TerraFrost wrote:
Oops....I was thinking of the 1943 Steel pennies when ripping on your 1914-D. Bob may indeed need that coin. |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by TerraFrost on Dec 6th, 2003, 6:40am oh, heh :) yeah... those steel cents aren't worth much... in fact, serious collectors probably wouldn't even give a cent for 'em, heh. i mean, you have a coin that isn't worth anything, but you don't want to spend all the same, heh. anyways, i put some pictures of the coins up, here: http://www.frostjedi.com/terra/coins.html anyways, if bob, or anyone, wanted 'em, i would send first, as i've never actually done online trades, before :) |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by mintcollector on Dec 8th, 2003, 10:07pm on 11/22/03 at 16:54:29, dragsamou wrote:
Alexis: Any chance you have pics of your dagger? Also I took 4 pics with my digital camera of mine for Axios. Would you like to see them? The only problem is, they are pretty detailed (600-900Kb each). Do you have something outside of your Hotmail account to receive images of such size? |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by dragsamou on Dec 9th, 2003, 9:49am on 12/08/03 at 22:07:14, mintcollector wrote:
Hi Mike. I do not have a Digital Camera :-[ I would like to see the Pics.In fact,I use very few Hotmail as it's my secondary E-Mail.I will PM my First One. |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by mintcollector on Dec 9th, 2003, 4:40pm on 12/09/03 at 09:49:05, dragsamou wrote:
Alexis: I sent you the pics, but if you ever get the chance to take pictures fo your knofe somehow, please send them to me. I would be interested to compare your Naval knife to my Air knife. |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by dragsamou on Dec 9th, 2003, 5:35pm on 12/09/03 at 16:40:16, mintcollector wrote:
Hi Mike. I did not received them yet,but I make a Scan of a part of the Dagger ;) At least you can have a better idea :) |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by AXIOS on Dec 9th, 2003, 6:37pm alexis, maybe you should put a digital camera on your christmas list instead of some magic misprints ;) ;) ;) |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by mintcollector on Dec 9th, 2003, 8:06pm on 12/09/03 at 17:35:07, dragsamou wrote:
Alexis: Yeah, I made a typo in your email address and it got kicked back to me. I resent the images. |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by dragsamou on Dec 10th, 2003, 8:00am on 12/09/03 at 18:37:02, AXIOS wrote:
Hi Nico. So far,I scan mostly MTG Cards,I have a Great Camera but it's not Digital ;) Maybe Next Year :) |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by mintcollector on Dec 10th, 2003, 4:32pm on 12/10/03 at 08:00:52, dragsamou wrote:
Why don't you take some of the money you were going to spend on the HP Goblin deck and go buy a nice digital camera! |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by dragsamou on Dec 11th, 2003, 8:57am on 12/10/03 at 16:32:42, mintcollector wrote:
Hi Mike. Sorry,I'm still in love with my Leica ;) And I do not think that the Members will like me spending our Common Money that was allowed for the HP Cards on a Brand New Digital Camera :D |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by AXIOS on Dec 11th, 2003, 12:48pm good one!! |
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Title: Re: What things other than M:TG do people collect? Post by giediprime41 on Jul 23rd, 2004, 2:27am Star Wars!!! ;D Women!!! 8) Darren |
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