von Corax
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Leverkusen Institute of Paleocybernetics
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« Reply #25 on: June 30, 2012, 08:09:57 am » |
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Is it just me or does it seem like pretty much every poster here tries to be witty?
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« Reply #26 on: June 30, 2012, 11:32:59 am » |
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I tend to collect all sorts of different stuff, depending on available finances at the time, I try not to limit to one thing. Dead things (taxidermy, stuffed, horns, antlers) Almost completed the crow family, just need a chough and a raven (soooo expensive for a good one!) Nautical doodads (porthole, ships wheel, diving helmet etc) Fireman antiques/ collectables (helmets, branches) Ive got expensive tastes, but anything copper or brass that "might work" with my interior and I will consider it. I posted a few piccies of my dining room a while back http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,33859.msg734526.html#msg734526~SeVeN~ E-bay is my personal nemesis   |
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« Reply #27 on: June 30, 2012, 03:38:19 pm » |
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As well as collecting things, I also hoard things.
I have 6 pianos including a player piano with more than 50 rolls and a Canadian harmonium.
I love furniture and I have a lot that I have inherited, bought and acquired from the 1800s up to the 1950s. Some of it I use and a lot of it is in my workshop awaiting restoration or use for spares. I have a lot of bits of furniture that may be useful for something.
I also have collections of old car badges, tax disks, road cats eyes, beads from spray cans, electric motors, coins, animal skulls and old cars.
Knobs, switches, levers, lights and dials from cars, old radios and machinery etc.
Bakelite and brass light switches and other old electrical fittings.
I like unusual and interesting things.
My latest thing is building materials and I am collecting as much corrugated iron, timber, bricks and stones as I can. All the bricks are free. I am building a workshop or something.
And of course books but I need more book cases.
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Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.
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« Reply #28 on: June 30, 2012, 03:56:36 pm » |
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Books, magazines, graphic novels, records, CD's, button badges, guitars, hats, replica guns, zombie toys, etc.
I collect far too many things and I really should stop. But every time I dispose of one collection I find I've started another. I guess I'm a hoarder.
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« Reply #29 on: June 30, 2012, 04:12:03 pm » |
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I don't think I collect anything on the same level of being a collector but I tend to keep every hat I've ever owned as sort of a memento of my life at that time. I also enjoy collecting local team rugby shirts.
Books, I have a lot of books but I've been slowly getting ride of them by giving them to friends to schools. I used to have quite a few many books.
My physical possessions I would say is very small. I hate having stuff.
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"Countries do not exist where I am from.
The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power,
the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone.
It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."
-Eloi Cole
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Miss Ava Lark
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« Reply #30 on: June 30, 2012, 08:20:55 pm » |
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I'm more of a bits and bobs type and try to keep away from collecting a single type of item and instead aim for a broad spectrum of items for people to oogle. One example is that I have only one typewriter (thought I could see myself ending up with two in the future!) However, some things in particular do catch my fancy and, as a result, I have small collections, such as: - Glass bottles (as well as putting various things in them) - Music boxes (an Internet friend mentioned she collected them, and it subconciously caught on) - Books (of course, though by now means small!) - Weaponry (a shame they're simply decorative) - Costumes My mom also collects old food boxes. We've got a 50 year old box of mincemeat with the contents intact! This will be my first time posting images on the forum, so let's see if I can get it right. |
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Even if the Faerie Dust infection didn’t kill seventeen year-old Crystal Ball it still might prove fatal as she and her friends are thrown into a full-scale hidden war fought between faeries and other infected humans known as the Dusted. Suddenly Crystal is trying to figure out her new dust-given powers as well as survive the hostility of both sides in the war as they try to either kill or recruit the trio. Check out my novel, Dusted, here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008E75YL6 |
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« Reply #31 on: June 30, 2012, 09:02:05 pm » |
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I'm more of a bits and bobs type and try to keep away from collecting a single type of item and instead aim for a broad spectrum of items for people to oogle. One example is that I have only one typewriter (thought I could see myself ending up with two in the future!) However, some things in particular do catch my fancy and, as a result, I have small collections, such as: - Glass bottles (as well as putting various things in them) - Music boxes (an Internet friend mentioned she collected them, and it subconciously caught on) - Books (of course, though by now means small!) - Weaponry (a shame they're simply decorative) - Costumes My mom also collects old food boxes. We've got a 50 year old box of mincemeat with the contents intact! This will be my first time posting images on the forum, so let's see if I can get it right. Very nice collection! I also collect antique bottles. I have also started to collect antique sunglasses in the last couple of years. Nothing compared to my Mother's Sunglasses collection however. |
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« Reply #32 on: June 30, 2012, 09:39:23 pm » |
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I collect bottles to0, not only antique but also Absinthe bottles and anything else I think is pretty. Here is a few of them above the window in my student house last year  The collection has since grown considerably including a range of old medicine bottles. I collect miniature teddy bears. I have about 50 and I've not added any to my collection for several years because you'd be amazed at how much space it takes to store things less than 3 inches tall =P. I won't buy any more until I can afford a proper display case. This bear might not look like much, but she means a lot to me. She cost me 99p in a seaside gift shop. She was the beginning of my collection when I was 8 and still travels everywhere with me.  I also collect books. I only have 450 or so at the moment, but I have always wanted to have a library in my house. I hope that one day I manage to; even if I only have one room, it'll be a library =P |
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« Reply #33 on: June 30, 2012, 10:13:43 pm » |
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Is it just me or does it seem like pretty much every poster here tries to be witty?
Heh. We don't just try, some of us actually succeed now and again... |
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« Reply #34 on: June 30, 2012, 10:41:48 pm » |
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I thought that I should start a proper collection and decided to collect something that is not used anymore - tea cosies. They are all everyday affairs, not the wildly expensive ones I've noticed on .Bay. I have a little heap and they are all put away in the linen cupboard next to the table-cloths. I rarely buy them, but it gives me a good excuse to pop into antique/junk shops as I am travelling around. Makes me think of times past when tea came out of tea-pots and tables were decorated with hand-made fabric mats of various (useless) kinds that all created more washing and ironing for the lady of the house. But they made it so pleasant to go out to tea.
Everything else just sort-of accumulates: mostly costume-making stuff and costumes that have fairly overfilled my house, my loft and my basement, and a friends flat, and his garage.
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« Reply #35 on: July 01, 2012, 12:08:42 am » |
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The usual things of people here: books, skills, clothes, especially hats, odd waistcoats and random bits of formal dress.
I used to have some more interesting collecting habits including old tarot decks and anatomical bits and pieces like animal skulls, random bones and teeth, a stuffed animal or two and bits of me that had been cut or pulled out but maybe fortunately that last category has not been added to in quite a while.
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« Reply #36 on: July 01, 2012, 12:13:51 am » |
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Hey! I found that exact same style of shelves busted on the side of the road a few months ago. I threw it into the back of my truck and hauled it home to disassemble and salvage the "legs" for a future project. Fun. |
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DAG-NABBIT...I cut it and cut it and cut it... an it's STILL TOO SHORT!
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HAC
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« Reply #37 on: July 01, 2012, 01:43:16 am » |
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watches.. preferably vintage, even more preferably railroad watches (approved for service, not simply RR styled) If it wasn't on a Class 1 approved list, well, not my cuppa.  |
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« Reply #38 on: July 01, 2012, 03:58:29 am » |
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Wit is an essential lubricant in the gearage of life... |
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Miss Ava Lark
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« Reply #39 on: July 01, 2012, 04:53:52 am » |
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I found that exact same style of shelves busted on the side of the road a few months ago. I threw it into the back of my truck and hauled it home to disassemble and salvage the "legs" for a future project. I can't even remember where that shelf originally came from. We bought it to fit in one of those perfect little nooks that just sort of happen in a house, but when we moved we couldn't find a good place for it to be again. Since then it's been floating around the house, and every couple of years it's moved. |
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« Reply #40 on: July 02, 2012, 01:09:44 am » |
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I found that exact same style of shelves busted on the side of the road a few months ago. I threw it into the back of my truck and hauled it home to disassemble and salvage the "legs" for a future project. I can't even remember where that shelf originally came from. We bought it to fit in one of those perfect little nooks that just sort of happen in a house, but when we moved we couldn't find a good place for it to be again. Since then it's been floating around the house, and every couple of years it's moved. Even better, that style of shelf is called a whatnot. Which I think is charming. |
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Uncle Arthur
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« Reply #41 on: July 02, 2012, 03:58:45 am » |
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Algie: you wanted pictures so here are a few of my favorite pipe cabinets. A nice large one that's my favorite of them all.   A beautifully carved one   And last a small one that was in pretty rough shape when I got it.   |
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« Reply #42 on: July 02, 2012, 05:31:32 am » |
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Algie: you wanted pictures so here are a few of my favorite pipe cabinets. A nice large one that's my favorite of them all. A beautifully carved one And last a small one that was in pretty rough shape when I got it. As someone who doesn't smoke, I appreciate the awesomeness of your pictures. Thanks for posting. |
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« Reply #43 on: July 02, 2012, 05:34:55 am » |
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At present, Teletype machines. I now have five of them. Three have been refurbished; two more to do.
Now that I have a reputation for fixing the things, people tend to unload them on me.
I'm not really into collecting; I'm more into making things work.
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« Reply #44 on: July 02, 2012, 05:49:51 am » |
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Collections… Goodness I guess I collect a lot of things.
Fossils (Mostly local-ish marine fossils. I rarely buy fossils since it’s usually expensive and I’m experienced in finding them myself, so my last purchase was about a year ago when I came upon a Jurassic sea urchin I just had to buy.)
Bats (I’ve only got plushies, figurines, and decorations, but I’d like to have a real taxidermy or skeleton bat someday.)
Bits, bobs, bait, scraps, and art/craft supplies (For making stuff of course… I also seem to have a large collection of my own art/crafts, anyone have a shelf or wall they need to buy a decoration for?)
Books & Graphic novels (I’m out of shelf space)
Fancy and Handmade Dolls (Grandma told me once that she wouldn’t mind if I tired of the porcelain dolls she gave me when I was little, and gave them away, and I was like, “Whhhaaaat? No!”)
I also have to agree on the Skills/Knowledge collecting. I’m currently working on learning to play the Ocarina.
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Several modern detectives now claim that “Jack the Ripper” was actually named Carl.
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Uncle Arthur
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« Reply #45 on: July 02, 2012, 06:19:05 am » |
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Algie: you wanted pictures so here are a few of my favorite pipe cabinets. A nice large one that's my favorite of them all. A beautifully carved one And last a small one that was in pretty rough shape when I got it. As someone who doesn't smoke, I appreciate the awesomeness of your pictures. Thanks for posting. Always glad to share my addiction. There are also the corner cabinets and hanging racks that are a real pain to get good pictures of. |
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Hambone Noland
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« Reply #46 on: July 02, 2012, 07:55:37 am » |
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I've never really gone out of my way to collect anything, but I do have a massive pile of books. If fact, I have more of them than my current dwelling can reasonably accommodate. I seem to have an awful lot of vinyl records, too.
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Imitation shows a lack of imagination.
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« Reply #47 on: July 02, 2012, 12:35:52 pm » |
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I have a rather large collection of books, so large in fact that it is split between two locations. The books themselves are nothing of note other than the fact I liked them (various novels, reference books etc.). Recently I've begun to collect pocket watches (as I've mentioned once before), again I don't look for anything of note (such as HAC and his railroad watches). I just buy them based on their aesthetics (for example i have an antique styled pocket watch which is actually of contemporary manufacture). I would like to get an actual antique watch just for the sake of having at least one.
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« Reply #48 on: July 02, 2012, 03:29:52 pm » |
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Bats (I’ve only got plushies, figurines, and decorations, but I’d like to have a real taxidermy or skeleton bat someday.) Over the 12 years or so I was involved with The London Vampyre group I collected lots of vampire and bat related stuff and vampire figures (from 12" posable 'action figures' of Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney and Max Schreck to little wind up clockwork vampires). I have a deep wooden chest filled with toy bats of all different types, (rubber, furry, plastic, Beanie, plush etc). At one time they were all on display. There wasn't a surface or shelf in my lounge that didn't have something vampy standing on it or dangling off it. I had about 2 dozen bat toys 'in flight' hanging from elastic/wire/string from the ceiling. In the finish I took them all down and packed them away. Although I still have several vampire figures on display in a glass cabinet. |
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I say, Joe it's jolly frightening out here.
Nonsense dear boy, you should be more like me.
But look at you! You're shaking all over!
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« Reply #49 on: July 02, 2012, 05:43:22 pm » |
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It might seem odd that someone with my apparent fixation on vampires wouldn't also be collecting a bunch of vampire stuff. But aside from my vampiress costume and a few books, I never have. The bats I’ve collected, I’ve just collected as bats. Of course, when you actually have fangs naturally (a second set of adult upper canines that apparently runs in the family), everything you own tends to get viewed as vampire’s stuff.
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