Open Discussion:
In light of the recent $3Mil baseball card collection discovery and $1.2Mil video game collection sale, we gotta ask…
If someone offered you boatloads of money for your collection, would you sell it?
What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever known someone to collect?
Photo of video collection courtesy of Andres Rueda
Photo of vintage lunchbox courtesy of Apreche
Photo of Pez dispensers courtesy of Benimoto
What do you collect?
Bottles of Cologne and built lego sets
If someone offered you boatloads of money for your collection, would you sell it?
Maybe, i really like my cologne :). I would probably sell my lego’s though.
What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever known someone to collect?
Phone Booths. My uncle has a bunch of old phone booths he collects.. really odd..
“What do you collect?”
DVDs, but I can’t afford any more at the moment.
“If someone offered you boatloads of money for your collection, would you sell it?”
Heck yes!
“What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever known someone to collect?”
Nothing unusual really.
For some bizarre reason, when I saw that they were releasing Adventure Time comics I decided to make that my first attempt at a collection. Almost definitely will never be worth anything, but hey!
Old electronics, servo motors, etc. For robotics I hope to do one day.
Dead things.
In more depth, I have a collection that would put some smaller museums to shame in both scope and diversity, spanning most of the known animal phyla (with a few plants and fungi in there) and ranging in age from a few weeks dead to 480,000,000 years.
Cliche as it may be, my prizes are the dinosaur stuff, particularly a fragment of triceratops frill so well-preserved that you can still see the indentations where the blood vessels were.
…you can still see the indentations where the blood vessels were.
I love stuff like that. A friend had a piece of cave art that included a charcoal outline of the artist’s hand. It would give me such an incredible feeling to put my hand up against that ancient signature.
I think it is interesting that the photo that accompanies this article is not really a “collection”. It is just a pile of random DVDs because they are not cataloged or organized in any way. Personally, I collect art by people I have met personally, antique Tiki stuff (Love the new Nat Geo cover!), heartbreak, and empty whiskey bottles. I used to collect concert ticket stubs of shows that I went to, but now the “tickets” are usually just a computer print out. Boring.
Stock. I like to have as many different kinds of stocks in my freezer as I can manage. Right now I have corn, roasted vegetable, shrimp, pork, chicken, beef, and lamb.