Collections

[Zymologist]

I have some rocks, and in certain cases video games. I have a few rare ones, although some of the best ones don't have their box and books. One does however, this one.

You nerd.

Cool!

[mossrose]

Stamps. I have a very extensive collection. Not particularly valuable, except to me, I think. My older sisters started collecting when they were youth (my oldest sister is 73 this year), and I took over their collection when they didn't want it anymore.

Some of the most interesting stamps I have are from WW 2 Germany. Overprinted with stuff like "200 million pennig", etc., on one stamp, right over Hitler's face. Maybe they are post-war, I am not sure. I have friends who save stamps for me, and I have belonged to one or another purchasing club over the years, so I have quite a few from all over the world.

I also have a very small collection of china and other items with violets on them. Don't know why, I am just enthralled by violets on china.

[Cerebrum123]

I have some rocks, and in certain cases video games. I have a few rare ones, although some of the best ones don't have their box and books. One does however, this one.

[Sparko]

Knives and swords. German beer steins. Coins.

Hey, what else would a pirate collect?

[Cow Poke]

Funny story that.

I was at a silent auction in the early 1990s. I placed a bid on a page from an early illuminated Bible that Albrecht Dürer had worked on. Now he was only responsible for doing the face of IIRC a monk which was smaller than your thumbprint. The rest had been done by his students and apprentices. I thought it would be real cool to own something done by one of the great masters (even if it was just a tiny portion).

Well I lost the auction by $5. A lousy, stinking #@&%#$ five dollars. Being a silent auction you can only make one bid and cannot raise it.

I was fuming. And I had money burning a hole in my pocket. A few minutes later a small collection of fossils came up for auction. there was a slab with some orthoceras^[1] on it, a pyritized ammonite, a trilobite or two and a 6" long Spinosaurus tooth.

I bid $50 and won. As I was paying for it the person who was collecting my money informed me that I got a great deal in that the tooth (which was a superb specimen with excellent serrations) was worth nearly $200 by itself.

From that point I got interested. I developed contacts all over the world (was even getting dinosaur teeth^[2] from species that were just being described in science journals at the time). I partnered up with two paleontologists and started selling fossils with a wide range of clients ranging from private individuals and institutions, universities and museums (including the Smithsonian, the Field Museum, the British Museum of Natural History and Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin).

By 2008 I was making around $30,000/year at my "hobby." And then the economy collapsed. Funny thing is when money becomes tight buying fossils is not exactly at the top of everyone's list of things to do.




1. Not the actual slab I bought

2. What I primarily collect

Interesting, thanks

[rogue06]

How'd ya get started? And how old were ya?

Funny story that.

I was at a silent auction in the early 1990s. I placed a bid on a page from an early illuminated Bible that Albrecht Dürer had worked on. Now he was only responsible for doing the face of IIRC a monk which was smaller than your thumbprint. The rest had been done by his students and apprentices. I thought it would be real cool to own something done by one of the great masters (even if it was just a tiny portion).

Well I lost the auction by $5. A lousy, stinking #@&%#$ five dollars. Being a silent auction you can only make one bid and cannot raise it.

I was fuming. And I had money burning a hole in my pocket. A few minutes later a small collection of fossils came up for auction. there was a slab with some orthoceras^[1] on it, a pyritized ammonite, a trilobite or two and a 6" long Spinosaurus tooth.

I bid $50 and won. As I was paying for it the person who was collecting my money informed me that I got a great deal in that the tooth (which was a superb specimen with excellent serrations) was worth nearly $200 by itself.

From that point I got interested. I developed contacts all over the world (was even getting dinosaur teeth^[2] from species that were just being described in science journals at the time). I partnered up with two paleontologists and started selling fossils with a wide range of clients ranging from private individuals and institutions, universities and museums (including the Smithsonian, the Field Museum, the British Museum of Natural History and Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin).

By 2008 I was making around $30,000/year at my "hobby." And then the economy collapsed. Funny thing is when money becomes tight buying fossils is not exactly at the top of everyone's list of things to do.




1. Not the actual slab I bought

2. What I primarily collect

[Zymologist]

Fossils. I have among other things quite an extensive collection of various dinosaur teeth including three from T rex.

[Zymologist]

A friend of mine just bought a Desert Eagle .50. He keeps raving about it.

My .45's a Desert Eagle 1911. I quite like it.

[Cow Poke]

Fossils. I have among other things quite an extensive collection of various dinosaur teeth including three from T rex.

How'd ya get started? And how old were ya?

[Cow Poke]

A friend of mine just bought a Desert Eagle .50. He keeps raving about it.

I think it's a "Macho Macho" thing .... kinda like "yeah, it's powerful, but ain't nothin I can't handle".

I'm wise and honest enough to admit I don't need that much power impacting my hand and wrist.

[rogue06]

Alright, you nerds. Fess up.

Do any of you collect anything? What do you collect?

Fossils. I have among other things quite an extensive collection of various dinosaur teeth including three from T rex.

[rogue06]

I seriously thought about acquiring a Smith & Wesson .500. Sure glad I fired one before deciding to invest in one.

A friend of mine just bought a Desert Eagle .50. He keeps raving about it.

[Zymologist]

I'm happy with my Ruger Security Six .357 magnum.... if I fire 50 or so rounds from it, I'll have a blister in the web between my index finger and thumb. And I have "farm hands".

I'd really like to get a .357. Still, those darn things cost money.

[Cow Poke]

I've never shot anything that big. My .44 is a 7.5" Ruger Super Blackhawk, so it handles the recoil pretty well. Still got a decisive boom to it, though.

I'm happy with my Ruger Security Six .357 magnum.... if I fire 50 or so rounds from it, I'll have a blister in the web between my index finger and thumb. And I have "farm hands".

[Zymologist]

I seriously thought about acquiring a Smith & Wesson .500. Sure glad I fired one before deciding to invest in one.

I've never shot anything that big. My .44 is a 7.5" Ruger Super Blackhawk, so it handles the recoil pretty well. Still got a decisive boom to it, though.