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[Robot Man]

1 hour ago, N e r V said:

 

Before 3D TV we had to go ghetto style with Viewmaster to get that "deepie" effect.

Still has some cool things to check out so I continue to add more to my collection including some of my favourite "old time" shows.

These are also instant sellers. Even the scenic ones. The early ones can command some decent money and I can still find them reasonable.

[Robot Man]

1 hour ago, TheFifthHorseman said:

I have one of these...although mine is a bit more beat up

I have a lot of vintage rock posters. I wish I had more wall space.

[PopKulture]

28 minutes ago, BitterOldMan said:

The cartoon was ...      I purchased the poster for $60, which was plenty for a poor undergraduate.  I have two copies of Four Color 9, but never found an affordable copy of the poster again.  The RKO cartoon posters rarely come up for sale or auction.

By the way, this reminds me: the other day I was looking thru a stack of miscellaneous newspaper comics and guess who I spotted in an early 1935 Mickey Mouse Sunday tab? None other than Donald looking every bit like he did in The Wise Little Hen. It's sort of a bonus, just like spotting the Yellow Kid in one of the later Buster Brown strips:

[Robot Man]

4 hours ago, batman_fan said:

I also collect the 1940 Superman puzzles

Captain Action figures and outfits

original artwork

Gum cards, focused on Mars Attacks right now

and rum, bourbon, and single malt whiskey 

I love those old 1940 Superman puzzles. I have quite a few. I don't really seek them out but grab them when I can find them. 

Bourbon just doesn't last long enough in my house to collect...

[N e r V]

It also took some time finding one of these complete with all parts and instructions that still work too. These were a lot of fun for kids back in the day.

 

[Flex Mentallo]

8 hours ago, Straw-Man said:

being an inveterate movie buff, here are the group of books that all spawned best film winners. 

A shared interest you and I have oft discussed. I don't think I ever showed these to you? Wonderful books. Of all places, I actually found the first volume in a musty bookshop in Bombay on my first trip to India in 1979. They've been with me longer than any other books.

[143ksk]

6 hours ago, PopKulture said:

I don't have to know WHAT I am looking at to like it!

p.s. What AM I looking at?? Spanish colonial?

It is a Russian jefimok. The host coin is a Spanish Netherlands patagon, which has been counterstamped with the date 1655 and the czar on horseback. 

Until Peter the Great adopted Western coining techniques in the beginning of the 18th Century, Russian coinage was very crude, with small coins being stamped out of lengths of wire and larger coins being counterstamped foreign coins as above.

[The-Collector]

Movie posters. I have been thinking of branching out into spook show posters too. Lots of undiscovered gems in that material. This is not my copy but I do have one.

[N e r V]

If I owned an dispensary I'd hang that up in it!

They forgot to list the munchies as one of the evils of pot too.

It will make you fat!!! 

 

 

[batman_fan]

6 hours ago, N e r V said:

It also took some time finding one of these complete with all parts and instructions that still work too. These were a lot of fun for kids back in the day.

 

I got that for Christmas when I was 7 or 8 while living in Indiana. We were living in the infamous "pink house" while my dad built our home. That toy provided many hours of fun. Yours looks to be in amazing shape. 

[EBE]

I have collected antique swords since the early 1970s.

Here's photos of a couple of them - the first is German, ca. 1580-1620.

The next two are of an English "Mortuary" sword, ca. 1650.

The last two are of an English cavalry officer's sword, ca. 1780

[piper]

17 hours ago, Flex Mentallo said:

In my case, books have always been an abiding interest, perhaps even more so than comics. This is what 35 years of book collecting will do to your home. The topics include masterworks, archives, absolute editions and omnibi, as you might expect, but also world history, mythology, palaeontology, sci fi and fantasy, art, archaeology, philosophy and psychology.

Sounds like my house...never enough bookshelves.  Funny, I never think of myself as a book collector.  I'm more of a book consumer!

 

“Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.” 
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

 

[Robot Man]

1 hour ago, EBE said:

I have collected antique swords since the early 1970s.

Here's photos of a couple of them - the first is German, ca. 1580-1620.

The next two are of an English "Mortuary" sword, ca. 1650.

The last two are of an English cavalry officer's sword, ca. 1780

Awesome. I have a friend who collects Civil War artifacts. Not my thing, but this is a world class collection. I could walk through his house for hours. If these objects could only talk. Breathtaking!

[KirbyJack]

8 hours ago, N e r V said:

It also took some time finding one of these complete with all parts and instructions that still work too. These were a lot of fun for kids back in the day.

 

Love it! I never had this, but the neighbor kids and I were all about the earlier SSPs. They were the #1 most wanted Christmas present for 2 consecutive years! That's an eternity in kid-time. 

[Flex Mentallo]

1 hour ago, piper said:

Sounds like my house...never enough bookshelves.  Funny, I never think of myself as a book collector.  I'm more of a book consumer!

 

“Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.” 
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

 

The japanese have a word for it - Tsundoko.

 

Though I have in fact read most of my books, quite a few of them multiple times,  I do like this from Mark Twain: 'What's the point in having a library if you've read all the books?'

 

Of course it is also about the collecting gene, which is why I started on a project to replace all my paperbacks with hardcover versions, having no idea how tough that would prove to be! These are all hardback replacements of well read sci fi and fantasy - many first editions among them., including Ted Chiang's 'Stories of your life' which they made into 'Arrival'.

Edited August 2, 2017 by Flex Mentallo

[piper]

4 minutes ago, Flex Mentallo said:

The japanese have a word for it - Tsundoko.

 

Though I have in fact read most of my books, quite a few of them multiple times,  I do like this from Mark Twain: 'What's the point in having a library if you've read all the books?'

 

Of course it is also about the collecting gene, which is why I started on a project to replace all my paperbacks with hardcover versions, having no idea how tough that would prove to be! These are all hardback replacements of well read sci fi and fantasy - many first editions among them., including Ted Chiang's 'Story of your life' which they made into 'Arrival'.

I have a few Fantasy and Sci Fi Series that I would love to switch over to hard cover but haven't taken the plunge yet. I'm amazed how much first editions cost for these. Even so, I keep my eyes out for them...

[PopKulture]

You can find some pretty cool graphics on old matchbook covers. If you look on the left, you can see a cover from Mickey Mantle's Holiday Inn in Joplin, Missouri:

Edited August 2, 2017 by PopKulture

[Flex Mentallo]

1 minute ago, piper said:

I have a few Fantasy and Sci Fi Series that I would love to switch over to hard cover but haven't taken the plunge yet. I'm amazed how much first editions cost for these. Even so, I keep my eyes out for them...

I suspect many hardcover editions had small print runs. Here are a few. The Ted Chiang book has become very pricey, and seems to be quite scarce nowadays. I haven't actually read this yet, but loved the movie.

[Flex Mentallo]

The Rose is one of my favorite sci fi stories. This is a very scarce UK edition.

[PopKulture]

1 minute ago, Flex Mentallo said:

I suspect many hardcover editions had small print runs. Here are a few. The Ted Chiang book has become very pricey, and seems to be quite scarce nowadays. I haven't actually read this yet, but loved the movie.

Who painted that dust jacket? It's a very cool illustration.