Today, I stumbled upon this article about a stamp possibly worth $20,000,000 to be sold at an auction. Hubski, what do you collect, and does anything you collect hold high values such as this stamp?
I have a few rare books. One I'd like to share is Duik Múun: Universo Mítico de los Aguaruna. It's an Aguarani/Spanish bilingual reader on the Amazonian tribe's mythology. It has unique illustrations:
Wow that's really cool! How expensive are books like this and where do you go about getting them? I feel like they would not only be really cool to own and look at, but they would be great conversation starters.
One of the first #tngpodcast's that we did was What do you collect and why?, there are some good answers in it. -We delve in to the different types of collectors and I talk with the owner of a comic/game shop. Check it out. I was new to doing the podcasts so it's a bit less concise than the future ones and we never did put it to video like some of the others but still, there are some gems in there. As for me, I collect vinyl: I have a couple more boxes of records yet to make the shelf, we just moved in. Still, I have plenty of shelf space yet to be used so I must continue on in my vinyl collection. It's a lot of fun. bgood79 you should share some shots of your kick ass set up.
mk, I was just listening to that "collecting" podcast (linked above) and I'm curious, how is your "penny from each year of the 20th century" collection going?
Mainly sadness and gutter rain. I have a coin collection as well, including some half-dollars from the 19th century and some interesting older European coins...and some yen. Don't know I got yen but there's some in the collection. I also collect records, and have recently started buying and collecting cassette tapes and 8-tracks.
They're one of those things that if I see one in a thrift store, I'll probably buy it as long as it's in decent shape. I found this Grateful Dead 8-track a few months back and it only cost me $0.25. They're mostly so cheap, I love it.
Video games! I started my gaming career with the game Mafia and the PS2 and Xbox when I was at a friends house. Bought my first console, Xbox 360, in 2007 and began to collect. I'm also into older consoles lately, because I realized how many great games I have missed over the years.
BUTTONS. SO MANY BUTONS. Man I wish I had my collection to show up here, I have a shitton of buttons, its the weirdest thing people don't know about me. To that end, also videogames, I guess. I sold an sealed copy of the non-greatest hits version of Final Fantasy VII a while back, got a bit of cash from it. Oh, and trading cards! Lots of pokemon and yugioh cards when I was a kid, got to the point where I would get the Japanese-only ones.
Records. My collection is in it's infancy at this point in time, I'd say I have 30 to 40. Nothing I own is worth anywhere close to 20 mil. The most expensive record I own is a copy of My Heart To Joy's Seasons In Verse LP, which I grabbed on eBay for $40.
I collect alien action figures, my favorites from films, tv series or video games. I don't keep them in their wrappers, I'm not collecting for economic reasons. I play with them. And give them away when someone really likes one, usually a child. And yes I'm a 40-something professor. It's just fun to go into a toy store and browse the action figure aisle and oh! A Cylon! Must have it!
I collect cephalopod things. Cephalopods are actually what got me into my particular subfield of neuroscience - evo-devo-neuro - because of their brains and intelligence. Among other things, I have a dead octopus in a jar.
Aw man, once upon a time when I was an Epic Knitter, I knitted a stuffed nautilus, and I wish I had it around because you would've dug it. I'd even mail it to ya. I'm going to look for it but seriously don't hold out any hope.
I can't knit for beans. I do, however, own a gigantic plush squid.
I collect Bass sheet music. not only do i dream of playing all of it, it's nice to be able to tell a colleague "Oh, i have that music if you need it".
I collect coins. Almost all of them are modern day European coins, though I do have a few Francs and Italian Lire, as well as a $5 from 1963. Thanks eightbitsamurai for reminding me that I collect MTG cards. I completely forgot that I have all of those chilling in my closet. They're sometimes referred to as cardboard crack, for good reason. Last year, I dropped $50 for 6000 cardsin an eBay bulk lot.