Collect, Acquire or What Just Follows You Home?

[wings&wheels]

We are an interesting and eclectic group here. Doing a cleanup and moving things around the garages has me thinking; besides our interest in vehicles, what do you collect or acquire?

For me it includes old oil lamps. I do not really go looking for them, they seem to find me; I will certainly accept or buy an old interesting one when I come across one. I like their simplicity and functionality, plus I could have an end of day drink on the deck to a battery powered something or a 1920's caged factory or railroad lantern. Easy choice

How about you?

 

[vavavroom]

We are an interesting and eclectic group here. Doing a cleanup and moving things around the garages has me thinking; besides our interest in vehicles, what do you collect or acquire?

For me it includes old oil lamps. I do not really go looking for them, they seem to find me; I will certainly accept or buy an old interesting one when I come across one. I like their simplicity and functionality, plus I could have an end of day drink on the deck to a battery powered something or a 1920's caged factory or railroad lantern. Easy choice

How about you?
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Is that red one a Feuerhand? I just bought one at a yard sale. It's never been used.

 

[wings&wheels]

Is that red one a Feuerhand? I just bought one at a yard sale. It's never been used.

Hi, no but the yellow one on the cabinet is. I found it NIB somewhere w/ its tags and bag. The red one is a Jupiter from Poland, I was at an antique shop w/ the Wife and saw it. Never saw a small Polish lantern before, so it followed me home.

 

[BISCUT]

I have thoughts on the NH rail car. Do explain.

 

[wings&wheels]

I have thoughts on the NH rail car. Do explain.

Craft shop in Mashpee, guy did the typical Cape woodcraft things (whales, lobsters, house names, etc.), though better than most, and had a few other things on the shelf.

I liked this and our other shelves have the obligatory boats and we have a framed antique railroad poster advertising service to the Cape so this fit in.

 

[Wrenchturner44]

Wings, I am not sure about New England, but in Appalachia almost every grocery store has lamp oil on the store shelves. That tells me that many of the population there still use them. Also, I like your glass insulators. Reminds me of the Colinite Wax...845.....LOL.

 

[Dinoburner]

Have several Dietz Railroad lanterns but don`t consider it a collection.

 

[Dave Sherman]

Antique radios. Oldest I have is a 1921 Westinghouse Aeriola Sr., newest would be from about 1953.

1921 Westinghouse Aeriola Sr.
1924 Midwest "Miraco"
1926 Atwater Kent
1927 RCA Radiola 18
1933 Philco 89B
1935 Silvertone 1845 Console
1935 Grunow
1936 Zenith 10S-153 Console
1937 Truetone D-727
1939 Westinghouse WR-270
1939 RCA T-80
1946 General Electric 114
1946(?) Howard 920 farm radio
1950 General Electric 50 clock radio
1950 Zenith H-500 Trans-Oceanic
1950 Silvertone
1953 Zenith AM/FM table radio
1951(?) Emerson 888 transistor radio

 

[Ws6]

Firearms, ammo, optics, night vision, that sort of thing.

 

[nwjones18]

Old military surplus rifles seem to follow me home.. At least they did when they all weren't $500+

 

[R1jake]

I have a few of the old Coleman catalytic heaters. A couple still new in the box. They burn clean and put out quiet a bit of heat.

 

[Kestas]

I too have antique radios... over a hundred. Most of them are the pre-war wooden variety.

 

[Skippy722]

Random bits of electronic equipment… I have 2 or 3 Core i7 4785T CPU’s, I think 32Gb of DDR3 SO-DIMM Ram sticks, random cords of all kinds, etc.

 

[wings&wheels]

Post pics of the interesting stuff....actually, it is all interesting to someone.

 

[xgmad]

Old pokemon cards I have had for a long time.

 

[CharlesInCharge]

I have a VERY tactile personality. Some uneducated people (those who care nothing about physical items, mechanical relics, interesting historical curios, etc.) might say "hoarder."

Old military or civilian guns, historical rifles, flare guns, military memorabilia, books, physical music and movies, old tools, cool curios and relics, lanterns, axes and axe heads, and so forth. My home is a museum of sorts. Anything old and quality, I'll bring home.

 

[cwilliamsws6]

Someone else mentioned radios and another person mentioned random computer parts which both of those are my thing.

I mainly collect CB radios, last time I counted I own about 30 CB radios, all assorted, I have 40 and 23 channel ones, sideband and 10 meter export radios and a couple handhelds. I have a home base station and I'll use one radio for a week then rotate it out for another in my collection. So over a long enough time span I do use all my radios and they don't sit and just collect dust.

Now about the old computer parts, I didn't start collecting that on my own but I inherited most of my stash. My grandpa was a hoarder and when he passed away a few years back I got his old computer stuff. About 20 milk crates full of old motherboards, mostly socket-6 and early Athlon stuff. There were a couple crates of nothing but new-in-box hard drives, mostly SCSI but there was plenty of IDE stuff in there too. A couple crates of optical drives...you get the idea.

With the parts I got from him I've so far built 3 working computers and I still have several crates full of old computer parts to spare.

 

[Snagglefoot]

You can never have too many pairs of work gloves. I’ll probably pick up the latest NAPA gloves on sale later this week. Once a year I try match them up.

 

[vavavroom]

I wonder if anyone here collects oil slides.

 

[dlundblad]

I like your lanterns. I was at a lake house a while back where a guy had antique nautical lanterns. He somewhat ruined them by drill holes, but he added some little LED lights and strung them up in his sunroom overlooking the water. I thought about doing something like that for here. Either just a lantern or a train one if I can find one.

I can honestly say I’ve never seen a Triumph TR6 that color btw. I’ve always liked those as well.