Featured Unusual Collections: What Have You Seen?

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  1. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    I was looking to rent an apt....upon entering....going down a long hall.....the main living room was wall to wall frogs......only frogs....every medium...color....size...and style.....!
     
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  2. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    ...plastic frogs of the non-hopping variety, I trust? :eek:
     
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  3. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    I do too!:cat:
     
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  4. Drew

    Drew Well-Known Member

    Years ago I bought a console radio - went to pick it up, this guy had a collection of remote control units for radio's and tv's, 1930's to 1970's. he had over 1500 of them filling an entire room - some were cable mechanical units the size of a lunchbox, others signal type. He even had prototypes. It really was an impressive collection.
     
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  5. Mill Cove Treasures

    Mill Cove Treasures Well-Known Member

    This board's very own. springfld.arsenal's cannon collection!
     
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  6. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    Marie is correct - fits right in at the Cape.

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  7. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I have an inadvertent collection of cat fur, courtesy of Her Furry Highness.
     
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  8. toomanytocount

    toomanytocount Boredom is a sin.

    Ha Ha Ha! As I constantly have to brush my big blond fur male dog, I keep saying to myself, there has got to be something I can transform this fur into. Sure the old folks way back when, had uses for it. I know they used horse hair for a lot of things, why not...:p
     
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  9. Ghopper1924

    Ghopper1924 Well-Known Member

    Love that buoy collection. Cool!
     
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  10. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    People have been known to spin dog hair into yarn.
     
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  11. toomanytocount

    toomanytocount Boredom is a sin.

    I heard that before, does that mean I need a spinning wheel?
     
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  12. gregsglass

    gregsglass Well-Known Member

    Hi,
    A woman in my church used to collect dog hair and spin it into yarn. She made wonderful knitted scarves and hats out of it. She was a "odd ball" to say the least.
    greg
     
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  13. moreotherstuff

    moreotherstuff Izorizent

    There was a guy named Bill Jamieson in Toronto who collected everything from guillotines to shrunken heads. He had a TV show, but I can't find it online anywhere.
     
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  14. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Did anyone else ever watch Oddities on the Science Channel? Now they collected/sold some seriously weird stuff.
     
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  15. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Ha!!!!
    There it is!
    Quoted in print AGAIN! ;)
     
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  16. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Is his name Chuck?
    :yawn::vomit:
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    I know I have some, TWA for one.
     
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  17. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    OH BOUY! :)
     
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  18. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Do tell....
    ;)
     
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  19. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    I was on TV on Special FX (remember that show???)
    with the guy who had the largest known matchbook cover collection in the world.
     
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  20. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    In one economic downturn or another, his investment went up in smoke?
     
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