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Richard from SE AZ

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I know that a lot of folks here collect tractors,implements, tractor toys, etc.,etc.,all farm related.I collect porcelin(SP?)masks,mining lamps, fishing lures,antique ammo and am accumulating as many diff.rifle bullets as I can find, actually quite a few diff.things. What do you guys collect?? How many do you have??
 
I've got about 300 1/16th farm toys. A couple of antique tractors that I don't use. I can't just let them set though and usually end up putting old horses back to work.
 

I colect all kinds of guns, the Wife says I have enough and I keep telling her but I have one empty pocket, you guys know what I mean, Got ta go:
JR Frye
 
I collect bussiness cards of all the places ive been. Diners, dealerships, etc. They're cheap and don't take up alot of space. And also i'll never have to worry about forgetttin where i've been.
 
automobile dashes, from the 50's, the over-chromed garish ones that resemble a Wurlitzer or Seeburg jukebox especially.
 
Thats odd that you asked the collection question, at this time. I logged on to ask if any of us collected (goodyear-succesful farming tractor cards?) My son is an assistant mgr for Raben tire, in Popular Bluffs, Mo, and he found a complete box of tractor cards, (which are like kids baseball cards),He told me they are no longer made. They were put out by Goodyear, and Sccusseful Farming magizine, in small 10 card packages. Buck sent me the whole box, for Christmas, and after opening about four packages, I am finding quite a few duplicates, If I open all of the packages in the carton, and go thru them , to save one of each tractor, does anyone want the remainder? I will pay the shipping, so they will be absolutly free. Any interest? E-mail is open. Oh yes-- I have a48 allis C--a 52 allis B--a53 allis CA--A57 minnie 335-- a55 allis WD45--and a 55 Farmall 350 , plus a Allis stationary engine, the same size as the B uses.The Allis C is a recent purchase, and is currently soaking to loosen the pistons, and the IH 350 is waiting for me to put the head back on, and the little stationary engine, is also soaking its pistons. the rest are used when needed.
 
I'm not a collector, more of an accumulator. Collector implies you know some intricate knowledge of the items, accumulator means the stuff just shows up. What's showed up around here are guns, lanterns, aircraft gauges, tractors, jeeps, boats, old engines, fishing poles, railroad stuff, and of course junk.

My wife says I built a $10,000 shed to keep $10 worth of stuff in. And she's right, cause that particular stuff ain't for sale.
 
Now that's cool.

I well remember my Fathers 1958 Oldsmobile 98 Starfire with J2 Tri-Power engine.

Chrome was definitely in in 1958, and much of it was cast rather than stamped.

Dean
 
Have some 1/16 toy tractors,implements and Tru-Scale trucks.Also started a small collection of grain sacks,tractor badges and siclkle bar mower covers.

Vito
 
I have a 100 plus collection of Kodak Brownie & Hawkeye cameras, plus a few movie cameras and off brands. Also a decent collection of Coke glasses of all kinds.
 
I have some old tools, about 20 hand drills - real hand drills!! One interesting piece I have is a windmill wrench. It was shipped with the old Aeromotor windmills, it was the only tool needed to erect the mill. Pretty interesting multi function tool.
 
In addition to tractors and antique farm equipment, a couple hundred antique cameras, assorted antique electronics & radio stuff, old small engines, half a dozen classic/antique vehicles, antique tools, whatever else I come across that looks interesting, if the price is right.

Keith
 
I collect advertising brochures on most brands of tractors and equipment built from 1930 to date. I have thousands of peices and most of them were free. The prices they get for some of them now days are unreal.
 
I collect old farm magazines , like The Family Herald , Farm Quarterly or Country Guide. These old mags hold a wealth of knowledge and a lot of good old farm tractor adds.
 
I collect the following:
1) Case toys
2) Musical (band) instruments
3) Books on the Indian Wars, the Civil War, and WWII
 
I believe my Father bought the 58 in 1960 when I was 10 or 11. He drove it until it had 160,000 miles on it and parked it in the barn.

It had lots of miles on it when I got my license and I did not get to drive it much but what a ride. I loved that car.

It must have had 500 lbs. of chrome on it, most of it die cast.

My father cleaned out the barn in 1974 and sold it for $150. He asked me if I wanted it before selling it and, newly married, living in an apartment out of town, I declined.

The wife's long gone and not missed but I still miss the Starfire.

Dean
 
I collect signs, calendars, etc, with Uncle Natchel, advertising Chilean Soda, as well as having several hundred watch fobs advertising machinery such as Cat, A-C, Euclid, etc..
 
Dad and I both I collect old bottles of any kind. My favorites are the old soft drink and milk bottles, dad likes the smaller more decrotive vinegar/vinagrette bottles.
 
I collect plastic model cars I have some wheres around 600 of them ,pocket knives , hunting knives ,antique tools , diecast cars , trucks , motorcycles and tractors , hammers , I have 51 hammers from little ones to my biggest a 24 lb.
sledge.
 
Beer Cans. Drove from Oregon to Goldsboro, NC in 1976 to show my two oldest where they were born and why the daughter only cost $2.50 and my son $4.00 ( he was circumcised and cost $1.50 more in the Seymour Johnson AFB hospital!) Every time we stopped the beer was different and had to try it! Ended up coming home with about 65 different cans. Now have 624 different beer cans. Also restored 48 8N and a 1950 JD M thats coming along a little slow.. Ed B in Oregon
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I collect antique tractors.Mostly fords, fordsons, and farmalls. got a few of each.varieties of farm toys. Mostly farmall and john deere prolly got over 200 different ones from 64th scale up to 16th scale. I collect rifles as well
 
Spook my daughter gave me a fantastic hand drill for christmas one i had vnever seen before but i ain't no good at posting pictures
 
I also collect shot glasses. My fav is a set of 4 that have silver lined rims and etchings of 4 different game birds. I've done some searches trying to find if there are any others in the set or not. My collection is up to somewhere around 120 or so.
 
Years ago I collected Win. bullets'
I have these.
1. 38-90 EX Win.
2. 45-125 EX Win.
3. 50-110 EX Win.
those are my best I have a small box of other old bullets.
Walt

PS don't tell the other guys but I also collect old waffle irons.

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Yeah, I've only posted 1 pic here, I need to get better at that stuff. I wish we had your weather right now. Rain / freezing rain & then snow for the next couple of days. We go weeks at a time here with very little sun, it's overcast most days this time of the year.
 
Over the years I have collected toys, old cars, old tractors and other things. Lately I have begun to collect dust.
 
g mccool,I also collect Case,would like to talk sometime with you.My email is on
Ande
 
Very fine line between collecting and hording!

Hording as I have been told, one can never get rid of an items no matter how messed up it is.

Enjoy finding farm machinery hand tools with a name or number on the tool. Have many without markings.

Yesterdays find was a cross pien hammer with an eight sided head about 12 oz. Also a nice, as new red and white wood fishing lure from the forties unmarked.

Tap and die sets in the wood box.

Anvils when priced right.

Will stop now.
 
Outside of a few Olivers and a lot of dusty 1/16 toys, have quite a few police patches.
Don't know how that one got started but acquired them from ebay rather than doing time!
 
In addition to antique tractors:

Vintage chainsaws, mostly made by Remington or of the 2-man variety, I had 60+ but I've downsized to around 50.

Vintage Scorpion snowmobiles, I own 7, 5 of them actually run.

1/16th scale John Deere lettered series tractors, I have about 30.
 
Fur fish game magazine, I can use any before 1960 at present. Let me know if you have any prefere complet year or a quanity.
 
I have always been fascinated by glass jars, perhaps from those in the cellar filed with fruits and vegetables courtesy of mom's capable hands.

When my grandmother died in 1969 I was given a few of the older antique jars that she had used decades before. My collection of jars just sort of snowballed from there.

I actively collected 5-10 years ago but stopped when shipping costs got so high and Ebay changes were made and so many reproduction jars started hitting the market.

Expect I have 100-150 different jars, different in brand, size, and color. My furthest came from New Zealand and is an amber color. Cheaper from there even with shipping than I could buy in U.S.

Most valuable one I have comes in at about $60 but paid about $8 for it.

I display and use the jars to store food items in, everything from beans to red hots to mulit-colored dehydrated pepper flakes.

An oddity I picked up along the way is a jar lid straightener. It reworks the old zinc and porcelain lids so that they screw onto jars properly. With the device I can buy a box of bent lids from an antique shop at give away price, straighten them and sell them on an old jar for a tidy profit.

Haines is an ancestral line of mine and I would love to have a Haines jar. Quite rare with some selling in the THOUSANDS of dollars. The one currently on Ebay is at $75. Too rich for my blood.
 
I'm not much of a collector, but I have tried to collect a coffee cup from every town I stayed in during my days on the wheat harvest. The cup either has the name of the town or the restaurant on it. The towns range from Texas to Sasketchewan and everywhere in between. I'd still like to find one from St. Benedict Sask.

Old hand tools is another collection that's still in it's infant stage. Jim
 
Spook, is there any chance that you could post a picture of that windmill tool or maybe email it to me?
 
Friend has a miniature coffin that holds a fifth bottle, with shot glasses. Even has the carry handles on the side that a real coffin would have. Trying to recall wording, something like "sprits inside" and on the inside something like "this is no mummy dummy" Pretty dumb, but very interesting. Would one of you collecters like a photo?
 
Used to collect all non running gasoline engines of any type. Started to overtake house and barn. Now I pass up some. This included cars and trucks and tractors and lawn mower and motorcycles and scooters and tillers and generators and boats and outboards and weed whips. Curiosity killed the cat. Almost killed me. Strangulation from carbon monoxide and oil fumes.
 
By happenstance, I've collected yearly International Buyer's Guides - those 80 page booklets of everything the company sold those years. Have about 25 since the 1960 edition. Also collect some tractors.
 
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