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Are you into collectables? I am not. Not on purpose that is. I have never bought or acquired anything with the intention on building a collection or starting one. Still within my family a few collections seem to have happened. My younger brother is more in tune to it now since he had a nostalgic run a few years back and acquired as many G.I. Joes and their equipment in a fond remembrance to his childhood. I simply find and buy things I like, and some of those grew into large collections. I remember the first piece of art I bought. I was 17 but it was something I had to have. A limited edition Print by Seerey-Lester. I actually tried to look it up on the web today to see if I could show you a picture but failed. It is a painting of a wolf standing on an artic tundra scene with rugged mountain like landscape rising in the background. It just looks so cold. My parents were naturally shocked when I brought it home, since most kids that age are spending money on food, electronics, clothes, and music. My brother declared oh great..as he declared to all about how I was now gonna haul in nothing but wildlife art forever more and be stuck in a theme. As it turned out nothing could be further from the truth. Over the years I have bought statues, aboriginal prints, Inuit stones carvings, train pictures, landscapes, people and abstract pictures. Originals and limited editions too. I was all over the map. It showed the eclectic nature of my tastes that I have always had, and that in it self, largely became the collection. Oh I did buy one more wildlife painting by Robert Bateman..(Actually it was bought for me.). I have always had a connection to art, and I think I have an eye for it, but beauty will always be to the beholder.
Like my tastes, try to guess some of my other accidental collection. Accidental because they were not purchased with the intent to be a collection. I won’t make you guess. I own roughly 5000+ comic books and I stopped collecting those around 1986. My kids love them and read them all the time. At the time I actually completed several series. The general worth of them are pretty stupid high but I was not into it for the money. When the kids are old enough I plan to give them all to them. The may be able to use them for money for a car or buy a condo or something.
Odd books. This is a collection semi on purpose but largely accidental. Currently I have them stored safely in my Mother’s library out of harms way. Most are curious but not worth anything. Like my World War 2 pre-war picture book, showing in simple steps how to beat up Adolf Hitler if you met him in the field of battle. It was actually a training book for soldiers that I can’t imagine a single soldier took seriously. My coup which I fluked out on was a first Run autographed George Bernard Shaw’s “Man and Superman” from 1903. I was offered $3500 for several years ago but turned it down and just stored it. I got it from my great Uncle when I was very young. I think 13. I was at his farmhouse in Rose Town Saskatchewan reading his books in the basement. He liked my interest in his books and said I could have any book in his library if I promised to care for it. I choose the Shaw book. I was surprised that he had to talk to my great aunt about it, but he came back and gave it to me. When he passed away 20 years later I was suppose to get his collection. What was sent to me was collectively a worthless book of the month moldy heap from the ‘60’s. His collection had been stripped and I got the crap. Complain? Not a chance. I got the crown jewel and I cared for it as promised. Hee!
Most of what I guess I collect happens to have been worth very little or worthless when I got it and I took good care of it. Since I am not in this to profit, I have no intention of selling any of my stuff, but to slowly pass things down to my children as time moves along. I have stored so many hidden gems now. I cherish them especially when they are connected to people I love that have since passed on.
Oh and the off beat pics above…lol..I collect bags too, not sure why. Accidental really.
Like my tastes, try to guess some of my other accidental collection. Accidental because they were not purchased with the intent to be a collection. I won’t make you guess. I own roughly 5000+ comic books and I stopped collecting those around 1986. My kids love them and read them all the time. At the time I actually completed several series. The general worth of them are pretty stupid high but I was not into it for the money. When the kids are old enough I plan to give them all to them. The may be able to use them for money for a car or buy a condo or something.
Odd books. This is a collection semi on purpose but largely accidental. Currently I have them stored safely in my Mother’s library out of harms way. Most are curious but not worth anything. Like my World War 2 pre-war picture book, showing in simple steps how to beat up Adolf Hitler if you met him in the field of battle. It was actually a training book for soldiers that I can’t imagine a single soldier took seriously. My coup which I fluked out on was a first Run autographed George Bernard Shaw’s “Man and Superman” from 1903. I was offered $3500 for several years ago but turned it down and just stored it. I got it from my great Uncle when I was very young. I think 13. I was at his farmhouse in Rose Town Saskatchewan reading his books in the basement. He liked my interest in his books and said I could have any book in his library if I promised to care for it. I choose the Shaw book. I was surprised that he had to talk to my great aunt about it, but he came back and gave it to me. When he passed away 20 years later I was suppose to get his collection. What was sent to me was collectively a worthless book of the month moldy heap from the ‘60’s. His collection had been stripped and I got the crap. Complain? Not a chance. I got the crown jewel and I cared for it as promised. Hee!
Most of what I guess I collect happens to have been worth very little or worthless when I got it and I took good care of it. Since I am not in this to profit, I have no intention of selling any of my stuff, but to slowly pass things down to my children as time moves along. I have stored so many hidden gems now. I cherish them especially when they are connected to people I love that have since passed on.
Oh and the off beat pics above…lol..I collect bags too, not sure why. Accidental really.
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