Topic: Collectors / Pickers
oldhippie1952's photo
Sun 05/13/12 02:47 PM
Speaking of native American jewelry, I'd like to collect silver and turquoise pieces when I am able to.

sheaintyou2012's photo
Mon 05/14/12 01:42 AM
Edited by sheaintyou2012 on Mon 05/14/12 01:54 AM
Oh and I forget to mention I also occasionally collect old hardcover TV annuals from the 50s-80s, old TV tin lunch boxes and TV trays ;) An that's everything!

Totage's photo
Mon 05/14/12 04:42 AM

Speaking of native American jewelry, I'd like to collect silver and turquoise pieces when I am able to.


What's stopping you? I'm sure you could find items that fit your budget.

Just be sure to avoid plated silver, where they take something such as copper ( if you're lucky) and plate it with .001 (one millionth) of an inch of silver.

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Mon 05/14/12 04:46 AM
Edited by Torgo70 on Mon 05/14/12 04:53 AM
Rare/obcure movies, VHS/laser discs
Comics
Some horror memorabilia.

oldhippie1952's photo
Mon 05/14/12 05:46 AM


Speaking of native American jewelry, I'd like to collect silver and turquoise pieces when I am able to.


What's stopping you? I'm sure you could find items that fit your budget.

Just be sure to avoid plated silver, where they take something such as copper ( if you're lucky) and plate it with .001 (one millionth) of an inch of silver.


I'm having 7 surgeries this year, no money for anything else. tears

mssilverfox's photo
Mon 05/14/12 07:07 AM

Speaking of native American jewelry, I'd like to collect silver and turquoise pieces when I am able to.




I have one necklace that is made like a squash blossom (necklace) but instead of the blossoms it has real bear claws. The claws (3 on each side) are capped with silver and have turquoise and coral on them.. The Naja (front middle) is made up of 2 claws with silver caps and turquoise and coral.. All strung on silver beads.. I have matching earrings. Saw one like it in San Antonio a couple of yrs ago and the lady said they tried to sell it on Ebay but had to take it off as it is against the law in USA to see anything with real claws unless its owned by Native americans...I've had mine for more than 15 yrs and it was very expensive...

oldhippie1952's photo
Mon 05/14/12 07:11 AM


Speaking of native American jewelry, I'd like to collect silver and turquoise pieces when I am able to.




I have one necklace that is made like a squash blossom (necklace) but instead of the blossoms it has real bear claws. The claws (3 on each side) are capped with silver and have turquoise and coral on them.. The Naja (front middle) is made up of 2 claws with silver caps and turquoise and coral.. All strung on silver beads.. I have matching earrings. Saw one like it in San Antonio a couple of yrs ago and the lady said they tried to sell it on Ebay but had to take it off as it is against the law in USA to see anything with real claws unless its owned by Native americans...I've had mine for more than 15 yrs and it was very expensive...


I can imagine the cost! Turquoise and silver are expensive without the claws but oh so pretty baubles!

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Mon 05/14/12 07:19 AM

Old boyfriends who were problems.
*hides the bodies*
Oh.. I collect penguins and Hello Kitty! :tongue:


Hello police.....

oldhippie1952's photo
Mon 05/14/12 07:21 AM


Old boyfriends who were problems.
*hides the bodies*
Oh.. I collect penguins and Hello Kitty! :tongue:


Hello police.....


Don't turn pyxxie in, she's a doll!

Besides, you'd look good in a body bag. Tres chic!

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Mon 05/14/12 07:28 AM



Old boyfriends who were problems.
*hides the bodies*
Oh.. I collect penguins and Hello Kitty! :tongue:


Hello police.....


Don't turn pyxxie in, she's a doll!

Besides, you'd look good in a body bag. Tres chic!


As long as I get my own toe tag.

oldhippie1952's photo
Mon 05/14/12 07:29 AM
rofl rofl rofl

markc48's photo
Mon 05/14/12 07:37 AM
I sell on ebay. But my prize collection Brass car cigarette boxes.

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Mon 05/14/12 09:48 AM
I collect.

-Dive watches
-Trench art
-Old furniture


But best of all, I collect good memories!

Cheer_up's photo
Mon 05/14/12 05:55 PM
i got some old records 78s in a book like album Roy Rogers ,Bing Crosby ,Frank Sinatra,Patsy Cline,and tons more name i got around like 6-9 albums full of tons of records 78s, i also got around 4-5 boxes of records i had from years ago, i have 8-track tape of Elvis not even openm,Princess Diana stamps other old stamps too, i got old mags of Elvis, an old batman motorcycle ,some 1800 to 1900 coins ,i got old cards rookie cards too Hockey and basketball, few different good ones ,i got couple old desks with wooden rollers on them, couple art painting prints numbered , A 999 silver coin old 1, few dollar paper money lollllll and so on a baseball signed by the hole team MLB,a old china doll , onyx board hold pen and pencil old and heavy,old programs to sport games and old tickets from sports games too,and so on :thumbsup:

sheaintyou2012's photo
Mon 05/14/12 07:04 PM

Rare/obcure movies, VHS/laser discs
Comics
Some horror memorabilia.


I used to collect rare vhs movies - sold a bunch for big money too!

Who's your favourite horror film character?

sheaintyou2012's photo
Mon 05/14/12 07:05 PM

i got some old records 78s in a book like album Roy Rogers ,Bing Crosby ,Frank Sinatra,Patsy Cline,and tons more name i got around like 6-9 albums full of tons of records 78s, i also got around 4-5 boxes of records i had from years ago, i have 8-track tape of Elvis not even openm,Princess Diana stamps other old stamps too, i got old mags of Elvis, an old batman motorcycle ,some 1800 to 1900 coins ,i got old cards rookie cards too Hockey and basketball, few different good ones ,i got couple old desks with wooden rollers on them, couple art painting prints numbered , A 999 silver coin old 1, few dollar paper money lollllll and so on a baseball signed by the hole team MLB,a old china doll , onyx board hold pen and pencil old and heavy,old programs to sport games and old tickets from sports games too,and so on :thumbsup:


U can never go wrong with records! :) I have a few Sinatra 78s somewhere...don't ask me where lol

The Elvis 8-tracks probably pretty valuable dude.

wux's photo
Mon 05/14/12 07:14 PM
Maps (from age 8 to age 23) and antique maps (from age 13 to age 52). Then I stopped coz there was no room for me in my house.

I bought and sold antique maps on eBay for a good number of years. Then I branched out into the white slave trade, coz the profit margin was exceedingly higher. You could make as much profit as twenty thousand bucks on one sale, provided that the product was young and healthy.

(SORRY!!! A BAD JOKE. I APOLOGIZE. MEN WILL NOT SAY A WORD, AND WOMEN WILL HATE ME FOR THIS COMMENT, BUT I COULD NOT KEEP IT IN.)

The map thing was real, though, no joke there. At age 11 I had to decide between collecting maps vs collecting flags, and I chose the maps.

To that point I had already been collecting postage stamps, empty cigarette boxes (it was a hobby for kids in my school -- in the drab communist times the occasional cigarette box from the west lit up our sad little drab lives for a while. These boxes were colourful, fancy, stylis and elegant; not like today's, what with the skull and cross bones and showing people dying of colon cancer from second-hand smoke), toy soldiers, fallen coins, spankings from my father, a love for literature, several girlfriends (although they were oblivious to this -- most notably the girls drawn by an artist on the back of playing cards, whom I dated for a good year before I'd discard them), bows, toy guns, Indian headdresses, gun shells and live bullets found in the dust left over from WWII, a lot of memories, some slaps on the face, the deep blue of the summer, the incredible scent of love and renewal in the spring, and the beautiful, heart-wrenching smell of burning leaves in the fall.

Cheer_up's photo
Mon 05/14/12 08:32 PM


i got some old records 78s in a book like album Roy Rogers ,Bing Crosby ,Frank Sinatra,Patsy Cline,and tons more name i got around like 6-9 albums full of tons of records 78s, i also got around 4-5 boxes of records i had from years ago, i have 8-track tape of Elvis not even openm,Princess Diana stamps other old stamps too, i got old mags of Elvis, an old batman motorcycle ,some 1800 to 1900 coins ,i got old cards rookie cards too Hockey and basketball, few different good ones ,i got couple old desks with wooden rollers on them, couple art painting prints numbered , A 999 silver coin old 1, few dollar paper money lollllll and so on a baseball signed by the hole team MLB,a old china doll , onyx board hold pen and pencil old and heavy,old programs to sport games and old tickets from sports games too,and so on :thumbsup:


U can never go wrong with records! :) I have a few Sinatra 78s somewhere...don't ask me where lol

The Elvis 8-tracks probably pretty valuable dude.
well i bought it sealed years ago at a garage sale and left it sealed has all his famous songs on it too:)cheers

pyxxie13's photo
Mon 05/14/12 09:45 PM
:angel:

topherj37's photo
Tue 05/15/12 11:19 AM
Edited by topherj37 on Tue 05/15/12 11:20 AM
Comic Books
Old coins and old dollar bills.

I still have most of my G.I. Joes and Star Wars action figures from the 70s and early 80s.