Do you display any unusual collection in your study?

Airplane models and other airline memorabilia.

JB

I have every issue of Playboy. Each in a sealed comic book bag. In black faux leather library cases with a silver Bunny Head logo and the dates P-Touch'd on the spine.

If I had it to do over again I'd think twice about it (the collection has been a *****-kitty to pack and unpack every time I've moved), but I started collecting them 25 years ago and it took on a life of its own when I realized I had every one but the first few years. Around that time Al Gore invented the Internet, and with the help of eBay I filled in all the missing issues including the elusive first one.

They look pretty impressive all lined up on black bookshelves in my library. I have a half-formed plan to sell them someday to supplement my retirement. Don't know whether I would break up the collection or try to sell it as a lot; depends on what kind of interest I get when the time comes. Some of those back issues go for quite a bit of money, but in the end anything is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

We have an unusually high number of paintings from one artist (my wife's mother). In fact, our place constantly looks like a permanent exhibition of her work.

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I have every issue of Playboy. Each in a sealed comic book bag. In black faux leather library cases with a silver Bunny Head logo and the dates P-Touch'd on the spine.

If I had it to do over again I'd think twice about it (the collection has been a *****-kitty to pack and unpack every time I've moved), but I started collecting them 25 years ago and it took on a life of its own when I realized I had every one but the first few years. Around that time Al Gore invented the Internet, and with the help of eBay I filled in all the missing issues including the elusive first one.

They look pretty impressive all lined up on black bookshelves in my library. I have a half-formed plan to sell them someday to supplement my retirement. Don't know whether I would break up the collection or try to sell it as a lot; depends on what kind of interest I get when the time comes. Some of those back issues go for quite a bit of money, but in the end anything is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.

That is crazy badass. I would love something like that.

Old natural history.

Originally Posted by gdl203

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We have an unusually high number of paintings from one artist (my wife's mother). In fact, our place constantly looks like a permanent exhibition of her work.

I am still saving up to buy one of your Mother in Law's paintings....

I have collections of:

Japanese hand made fishing net floats

Wooden industrial tool and die molds, they are huge and very beautiful to me, some have yellow or red painted on, and metal tags explaining in code what part of the huge machine or factory it was a part of, they were pressed into sand to pour iron into. I have them all over the house.

Oh, and flour mill wheels and cogs that are from the 19th century.

Japanese tea pots and rice bowls.

Art

Prints of bulls in various forms of being slain.

Demantoid garnets, check them out, they are badass.

One of the few things less common than a Demantoid garnet is someone who knows what it is. Rough or cut? I have a small, rough and in matrix Muzo emerald on my desk now.

In another odd coincidence I work with several Master Patternmakers, any of which could easily have cut some of your wooden patterns. They can be exquisite.

~ Huntsman

Mine are all cut.
I just had one made up into a ring for our 10th wedding anniversary.
It was a 1.88 carat round, with perfect horsetails in the bottom middle of the stone.
Kind of a perfect darker olive to emerald green. FIRE like you wouldnt believe.
Finding Demantoids over a carat is mind numbingly difficult, that I can attest on that project (also WTF on the price of platinum!). My jewler actually had offers to buy it when he brought it downtown to his operations, a couple of the setters freaked out when they saw it.

I should take some pics of the forms, they are un real. Most I got in college from the Holland Tool and Die works that I lived across the street from for a year or two. Once they prepared to demolish, we took out as many as we could. Most of them are from the 20's and 30's.

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I have a collection of rare, antique ammunition, rare books (especially Sherlock Holmes items), gemstones, and other things that appeal to me. Not a lot of each (except the ammo, perhaps), just a little of the things I enjoy....

lol

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We have an unusually high number of paintings from one artist (my wife's mother). In fact, our place constantly looks like a permanent exhibition of her work.

Crimeny, do you feel like your mother in law is staring at you all the time!?





My office is decorated with souvenirs from my backpacking travels. Some Turkish rugs and silver wear, woolen hats and rams horns from the mountains in Georgia, some money with Saddam Hussein on it from Kurdistan, an Arab headscarf, and some statuettes of Don Quixote and Pancho Villa from central Mexico.

These remind me of my travels and stimulate my imagination.

Of course I also have my many leatherbound books...

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I am still saving up to buy one of your Mother in Law's paintings....
Really? If you're ever in NYC, let me know and you should stop by to have a look in person. She often sells pieces below the gallery prices when she meets people who really like her work.

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Crimeny, do you feel like your mother in law is staring at you all the time!?
Not at all. Sorry if I wasn't clear - the works are painted by her, not portraits of her. I'm very happy with the deal we got (warehousing free art that I actually like)

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Not at all. Sorry if I wasn't clear - the works are painted by her, not portraits of her. I'm very happy with the deal we got (warehousing free art that I actually like)

I understood your meaning.. I suppose I meant the question in the sense that her PATHOS might be staring at you all the time.

Odd that LK has yet to post in this thread.

Oh, he did, but of course we all know about the oosik.

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Oh, he did, but of course we all know about the oosik.

Dang. He just snuck that post right on in there with a swift avatar change. Crafty!

And somehow I think the oosik might be the least of our worries.

I have a chunk of the Berlin wall, some Russian folk art pieces and oil paintings I picked up in St. Petersburg, some highland bagpipes, and some other stuff I can't think of at the moment. Also, some paintings that different family members have done (artists in family).