Let\'s change the subject.... What Do You Collect?

 
Hi stike, Here are a few of my shooters. All the Marlins are .22LR. All the Pythons but the Target are .357 Magnum. The Target is a .38 Special. The Suhl's are East German made target rifles in .22LR and many consider them the most accurate target rifle out of the box. With the fall of the Iron Curtain they are getting scarce and then many have been modified for bench rest shooting. The Marlin Model 39A is the only one still in production and has been manufactured under one model number or another for over 100 years. My 1904 Model 1897 is almost identical to a brand new Model 39A, basically the same gun. The longest gun in production in history. They are still made with much the same quality as they were in the beginning and have always been noted for their accuracy and reliability. An American classic.

1933 Marlin Model 39

1904 Marlin Model 1897 & 1933 Model 39 (same as above)
I often wonder how many rabbits were added to the stew pot during the depression by these two guns and others like them.


1964 Marlin Model 39A Mountie w/ 1964 Marlin Scope
I was 13 when this gun was sold new and would have given anything to have owned it back then.
1971 Marlin Article II Commemorative
1970 Marlin Century Limited Edition

1971 Marlin Model 39D
Only made for a couple years. It was modeled to look just like the Marlin Model 336 .30.30 deer rifle.

1963 Marlin Model 99 w/ 1963 Marlin scope & 1964 Mountie w/ 1964 scope (same as above)
This Model 99 was made in 1963 but not sold by Marlin until a couple years ago, no one knows why. It predates serial numbers on firearms so Marlin had to make one up for it in order to sell it.

1980 Colt Python Hunter
Only marketed for one year the Hunter is one of the rarest Pythons. The custom Leupold scope and Haliburton case were made for Colt just for this model. 1980 is the first year the Python was made with a 8" barrel.

1980 8" Colt Python Target .38 Sp. & 8" 1980 Colt Python .357
The Python Target is another rare model.

1976 6" Colt Diamondback .22LR
This is the first year for the 6" barrel on the Colt Diamondback. The Diamondback was designed to look like the Python but because it was made for 10 fewer years there are less of them and they are equally collectible. This one has never been fired since it left the factory.

1989 Suhl 150-1 & 1981 Suhl 150

I think I have all the dates right. I guess this is about half my collection.

Gator

 
I would rather have your collection any day of the week, Kent. I always wished I could have raised a loving family, it was never in the stars. I hope in my next life I can.

Gator

 

What do I collect?

Mostly charged off consumer credit cards, defaulted installment loan contracts, and automobile deficiency balances.

I have gotten the songs from a lot of different sources. Some of them legal. LOL.
In St Louis we have the longest running rock station in the US. They started out as a progressive station in the 60's. They still do cutting edge music but on Sunday mornings they play 4 hours of the old stuff that never gets played anymore. I record the entire show onto cd and then lift the song. I'm not cheating anybody because a lot of it can't be bought. By now I really only come up with a song or two every couple of months that I want. I only keep what I like.
When my brother was in college he used to dj at the campus radio station at night. I would get to go into the station's music library and record a lot of music on their high quality equipment.
I don't have many bootlegs because the quality usually sucks. There's so much live Grateful Dead music out there it's hard to find anything unique. The same with someone like Jimmy Buffett who broadcast every single concert live on the radio. But I do have an unreleased song by him called "Please Take You Drunken 15 yr-old Girlfriend Home".

Clocks, scales, kitchenalia, and lots of antique brass stuff

This Regency Bracket Clock got me on "Antiques Road Show" about 6-7 years ago. That was an interesting experience.




Have two Ogee Clocks (named for the shape of the frame). Not real valuable because oodles were made but I like the story behind them. This clock was made by the Jasper Clock Company in Connecticut prior to 1840. Jasper Clock Company went out of business in the 1840s. While the French and UK clock makers were still making clocks as fine timepieces one at a time the German, Swiss and American clock makers started stamping and turning out clocks that the common man could afford. On one of the first bulk shipments of clocks from the US to the UK the customs official asked their value for duty purposes. When he was told they were value at One Pound each he responded with "yeah right, I'll buy the whole boat load". The American clock makers thought this was a great deal and immediately sent another shipment - LOL.


Some kitchenalia and another ogee clock


Don't have any good pics of scales and weights - here is one cropped from a pic


Most of our collecting was done from '82 to '87 while living in the Highlands of Scotland. Antique shops on the weekend and auctions a couple evenings a month. Had some great times people watching at auctions - everyone has their own style and some are quite comical. One older couple that had an antique shop were a trip - she couldn't hear well and he couldn't see well. He would go down by the rail and she would stay in the stands and he would give her signals - sometimes they would get their signals crossed up - LOL.

stike,

Great idea for a thread! Nothing sophisticated for me and I can't wait till my whole collection can be displayed but here are a few

Gator,

I think my sweet tooth was defective. I don't like sweets but love the hot stuff. That is abut 5% of my collection, I am waiting for an insurance settlement to get the cabinetry made to display it.

Steve

fishing reels, ive got old wooden centerpins from the 1800's to seamasters and godfreys. i mostly like a working collection and will show up at a bass contest with a old bamboo rod and antique reel and compete against the guys with the best stuff on the market. :laugh: i mostly like the reels that have unique features like one way bearings or dual mode drive systems or drum brake drags or a one year produced green side plate or highly detailed scrolling. not always the most expensive stuff, i have alot of junk stuff mixed in with some highly priced stuff.

one of ted godfreys earlier trout reels, special ordered from the maker himself. nickel silver, walnut side plates, multiplier, drum style drag, i think he stopped making them years ago and his newer stuff isnt made one at a time any more to order. really love this reel

another atlantic salmon reel by godfrey

a 1953 penn green plate, my favorite salmon reel, ive caught alot of fish with that reel. the green plates were bought up mostly by charter boats so they could tell if someone was stealing a rental rod, just produced for one year and most found are really beat up

my favorite reel to take bass fishing, its an open faced spin caster, not an open faced spinning reel and usually the line holder are missing on these.

this one has both direct drive and antireverse, the only other reel i know with this feature is a top of the line seamaster.


i think im over two hundred with the reels, most of them are working and used.