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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;verybrad, post: 174199, member: 37&quot;]I started collecting at an early age.&nbsp; I was given a ship in a bottle by a family friend when I was 3 or 4 and it was my prized possession.&nbsp; By the time I was 5 or 6, I had amassed a pretty good collection of rocks, shells, and anything else that caught my fancy.&nbsp; Collected anything science related.&nbsp; Had a Crookes radiometer, one of those bobbing glass bird things, magnets, and a pretty good blob of mercury.&nbsp;&nbsp; I started making model birds that came in kits and learned all about them.&nbsp; I began collecting their bird nests and egg shells.&nbsp; I searched high (literally) and low for various examples.&nbsp; Collected butterflies, other insects, and learned how to mount them.</p><p><br /></p><p>My grandparents had a house full of antiques and we went down and liquidated their house when I was 14.&nbsp; My parents kept a lot of things but most were liquidated at auction.&nbsp; I was pretty enthralled by the process.&nbsp; I brought home a few things including an old bed in pieces that no one wanted.&nbsp; It was my first restoration project.&nbsp; By the time I was 18 and on my own, I began attending auctions.&nbsp; Soon after, I started buying with an eye to selling.&nbsp; The rest is history.......</p><p><br /></p><p>I still have some of the rocks I collected at a very early age, some of the antiques I got from my grandparent&#039;s house, and have inherited more. The ship in a bottle got lost in a move very early on.&nbsp; I bought a replacement not all that many years ago but I don&#039;t know how it compares to the original one.&nbsp; For some reason, the details are a bit fuzzy after all these years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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