While I wouldn't exactly call it “collecting” I have about 100 erotic Ex Libris, most of them original graphics. Started when I discovered my grandfathers lot.
While I wouldn't exactly call it “collecting” I have about 100 erotic Ex Libris, most of them original graphics. Started when I discovered my grandfathers lot.
Oh ho! matted and framed, very nice. Any Aubrey Beardsley among them?
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
While I wouldn't exactly call it “collecting” I have about 100 erotic Ex Libris, most of them original graphics. Started when I discovered my grandfathers lot.
Oh ho! matted and framed, very nice. Any Aubrey Beardsley among them?
Lego sets, mostly Modulars/Creators and Lego Ideas (Mature Adult sets)
Some of my recent sets
That photo shows 2 more silly hobbies, the book shelf has 2 levels of NZ Consumer magazines rnning from 1969 to the latest issue (Patchy until 1988). The red binders contain Heritage New Zealand magazines, all about old buildings, historical ites, Maori heritage and other matters and I have all but 3 issues of the magazine going back to Issue 1 in 1983, it came out erractically and they are up to like Issue 185 or something after 43 years. I have been a member of the group since 1999.
I read a lot of books and buy them, mostly history, Maoritanga, Social history, Politics and old Atlases, I remember crossing traffic congested roads recently when getting my tyres replaced on my car and going into a Junk shop as they had an intact 1990 atlas that cost just $4 and buying a 1958 one from a book sale for $2 etc. My oldest Atlas in only 1899, but its interesting.
My record player, which comes with some 100 Prince vinyl albums, 12 inch singles and 7 inch singles, also about 100 78 records going back to 1908 and around 300 Vinyl singles from 1951 to 1992, all sorted to date (Most are from my childhood and or date from the 1976 to 1989 period with songs I remember).
Finally drinking designer coffee and taking photos of my splurges.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Lego sets, mostly Modulars/Creators and Lego Ideas (Mature Adult sets)
Some of my recent sets
That photo shows 2 more silly hobbies, the book shelf has 2 levels of NZ Consumer magazines rnning from 1969 to the latest issue (Patchy until 1988). The red binders contain Heritage New Zealand magazines, all about old buildings, historical ites, Maori heritage and other matters and I have all but 3 issues of the magazine going back to Issue 1 in 1983, it came out erractically and they are up to like Issue 185 or something after 43 years. I have been a member of the group since 1999.
I read a lot of books and buy them, mostly history, Maoritanga, Social history, Politics and old Atlases, I remember crossing traffic congested roads recently when getting my tyres replaced on my car and going into a Junk shop as they had an intact 1990 atlas that cost just $4 and buying a 1958 one from a book sale for $2 etc. My oldest Atlas in only 1899, but its interesting.
My record player, which comes with some 100 Prince vinyl albums, 12 inch singles and 7 inch singles, also about 100 78 records going back to 1908 and around 300 Vinyl singles from 1951 to 1992, all sorted to date (Most are from my childhood and or date from the 1976 to 1989 period with songs I remember).
Finally drinking designer coffee and taking photos of my splurges.
Nothing like being surrounded by memories of glorious days past. Trying to explain that to my wife 😜
Nothing like being surrounded by memories of glorious days past. Trying to explain that to my wife 😜
Thank God I don't have a wife and even if I did, she would not be allowed to comment on what I spend my personal money on. Just at the same time, she would have her own private money to spend on what she pleases without my commentaria or impact.
Then again I am gay and don't have a wife, in the gay world (Well men at least) generally hobbies and collecting things is normal behaviour and high incomes means money can be poured into hobbies more openly that straight people.
But my collecting lego has little to do with women or sexuality, it mainly comes from desire for visually pleasing knick knacks and unfulfilled childhood ambitions. I grew up in a poor and very strict family and in the 1980s, imported Lego was very expensive. My first set in 1986 cost like $40 (In 1986 dollars like $150 - 200 in modern money) and you got like 150 pieces and could not even build a basic 2 storey house or one vehicle that was not 2D or looked like it had be designed by a 3 year old (It was called Basic 530 or something). We usually got hand me down bricks of many types and a cheap local version called Torro, which was horrible and not very high quality.
Those models on the other hand have an average of 3,000 pieces and cost around $400 - $500 I may buy 2 of them a year at most - plus I love making them (Many collectors never open the box, where is the fun there?).
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Books… like lots and lots of them. Like an unhealthy amount of them.
I have 5 full sized bookcases, 3 half cases, 4 extremely deep built in wardrobes shelves (think like 5 big A4 books deep), and a few boxes up in the loft.
Of note is my collection of DC Thomson (A Scottish publisher) boys annuals including a complete full original set of annuals:
Dandy 1939 - Ongoing
Beano 1940 - Ongoing
A complete set of every spinoff character from Black Bob (1940) to when they stopped ~2011. And a tonne of related “specials”, which started ~1988 & still ongoing.
From the above publisher as well, a complete set of the much rarer Broons & Oor Wullie sets (1940/1939 respectively - ongoing), though 4 early annuals are facsimiles. However, I do have the absolute rarest (Broons 1942) as an original. A super-collector of these in a Facebook group I follow has only seen 4 (including my own) come up for sale since about 2003.
I also love early American newspaper comic strips which are helpfully being reproduced as collected volumes. Titles I have include Dick Tracy, The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Superman, Batman, Miss Fury, & Mandrake the Magician.
I also love the old proto-heroes so have books/comics for The Shadow, Doc Savage, The Avenger, Zorro.
And sticking with comics, DC publishes some huge omnibuses of early comics. Have most of those especially the golden age (~1938 - ~1955). In the Marvel world, got a lot of their Epic collections which cover from ~1961 - ~1990. Had to stop those as I ran out of space.
Speaking of space, back to British comics & Dan Dare was reproduced largely in the 1990s. Got those. However, the publisher decided some stories weren't up to scratch & never republished those.
Also love the Ninja Turtles comics. Have pretty much every collected edition of every title, regardless of iteration. Plus a lot of weird spinoff or related stuff. And they have a lot of it.
The turtles also brought the delightful Usagi Yojimbo to my attention. I have all the collected Saga volumes. Limited hardcover variants of course.
Despite generally not liking anthropomorphic comics, this is my absolute favourite comic. I think it works well because it is largely very grounded in Japanese Shogunate or Japanese mythology but explained in a very easy to non-native understanding. And realistically, you could swap out the animal characters with humans and the story would still work for 99%. Like Usagi is a rabbit, but he doesn't have the rabbit ability to jump insanely high. Only as much as a physically fit human would.
And that's before we get into my actual proper books. Got plenty of fiction, particularly semi-historical (e.g. Sharpe, Hornblower, Flashman), early detective novels (e.g. The Maltese Falcon, Sherlock Holmes), as well as the more gothic classics (e.g. Dracula, Frankenstein).
Then the non-fiction books about just about any part of history. Roman empire, American Revolutionary War, British Empire, English Civil War, Jacobite uprising, Napoleonic era. Usually stuff related to Britain somewhere along the line. But plenty of other global stuff (Japan's shogunate, Peloponnesian war, China's War of Three Kingdoms, building of the Panama canal).
Or books on technological advances (invention of the modern postal system, or railways, or even spy networks).
Plus a few biographies of interesting people, Wellington, Napoleon, Thomas Cochrane, Georgiana Cavendish (The Duchess of Devonshire), Mary Queen of Scots to name but a few.
I love learning like that. Anything unusual but interesting.
Books, books, books! Half a year ago I decided to donate most of my English & Hebrew language books to our local library - saved me a lot of space and they are now 5 minutes walk from my house if I decide to read one of them.
As for Lego, being a father of 5, I accumulated tons of it over the years and now only the youngest one plays with them.
And then there are 200+ classical music vinyls I am not ready to depart with. Yet.
A collector I love your post and tastes. I went through a phase of collecting Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics as a teen and even Mad magazines, but now its my New Zealand Heritage and Consumer. I love having a test about Triniton TV's from 1988 or the best steam iron of 1978 at my fingertips.
My other crazy book collection is any and everything about Prince, probably 50+ books I have collected since the 1990s when I first got inro Prince, its pride of place and I buy most of them as they come out. My peak was mid 2010s up to and just after his death where the stream became a flood and I got a bit sick of the cash in biographies, but bought all the good books too.
For non fiction, I am obsessed with 3 or 4 authors who deal mostly in historical and crime fiction. I read all the Bones books by Kathy Reichs (I loved the TV series, but like the books more) and anything by Ken Follet, and in the past Ken Rutherfurd (Although he has been quite lately).
Anything about Urban history (Cities through time, sadly AI reels of evolution are not that great). History, Atlases and of course the books of historic photographs. I just love the Victorian era completely, coins, stamps, trains, crinolines, old photos, stove top hats and even edging into steampunk too.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I kinda collect books, but im rather picky about those, and i also dont want to spend a lot of money on them. Currently i own about 30 and most i found in my old grandma's house.
I also like old ammo, i sometimes buy it from metal detectors.
I kinda collect books, but im rather picky about those, and i also dont want to spend a lot of money on them. Currently i own about 30 and most i found in my old grandma's house.
I also like old ammo, i sometimes buy it from metal detectors.
I am in no way being pedantic here, and I fully understand English is not your first language (although very very good), but someone who metal detects is a detectorist not a detector, a metal detector is a machine. Hence you cannot buy ammo from metal detectors 😉😂
„If your reply or post in the Forum stinks of AI, I will call you out! Knowledge comes from experience, the I in AI stands for incompetence.“
I kinda collect books, but im rather picky about those, and i also dont want to spend a lot of money on them. Currently i own about 30 and most i found in my old grandma's house.
I also like old ammo, i sometimes buy it from metal detectors.
I am in no way being pedantic here, and I fully understand English is not your first language (although very very good), but someone who metal detects is a detectorist not a detector, a metal detector is a machine. Hence you cannot buy ammo from metal detectors 😉😂
Oh, yeah. Sorry, i didnt notice i made that mistake.
I kinda collect books, but im rather picky about those, and i also dont want to spend a lot of money on them. Currently i own about 30 and most i found in my old grandma's house.
I also like old ammo, i sometimes buy it from metal detectors.
I am in no way being pedantic here, and I fully understand English is not your first language (although very very good), but someone who metal detects is a detectorist not a detector, a metal detector is a machine. Hence you cannot buy ammo from metal detectors 😉😂
Oh, yeah. Sorry, i didnt notice i made that mistake.
I only know that from Mackenzie Crook‘s BBC comedy of the same name The Detectorists 👍
„If your reply or post in the Forum stinks of AI, I will call you out! Knowledge comes from experience, the I in AI stands for incompetence.“
I kinda collect books, but im rather picky about those, and i also dont want to spend a lot of money on them. Currently i own about 30 and most i found in my old grandma's house.
I also like old ammo, i sometimes buy it from metal detectors.
Old ammo is also one thing I’m trying to get
started in. I want to buy a tank bullet or something like that.
I don't collect ammo, but have managed to accumulate a small box over the years. Out of curiosity, I pulled out the first 50 years of US military cartridges.
1. 50-70, 1866-73
2. 45-70, 1873-94
3. 30-40 Krag, 1894-1903
4. 30-03 Springfield. I'm not sure if this is any different from the 30-06, if not it was used through WWII.
5. .45 Colt, 1873-present. Used in the Colt single action army.
6. .45 Auto, 1911-present.
7,8. .41 rimfire. 1866-1935. Not military, but used in the Remington Derringer.
