Featured Just a small side collection I have: pens & pencils

sometimes I regret not just collecting stamps......50,000....wouldn't put a dent in only one room !!

 

You have 50,000 stamps? :O

 

no.....several hundred..maybe....give or take a 200...
i was commenting on their size......
wait till you have several hundred samovars .....

 

Sorry, it's late, haha. My reading comprehension plummets after midnight. .

 

YES!!! That's a very important factor! Don't take up much space and can hide them from hubby if the need arises. I collect Sindy and she aint so easy to hide . Not that I have had to yet but I like to know I CAN hide my light under a bushel if need be

 

Thank you...I shall add to it if I find more ( which I am sure I shall, I am at the bottom of EVERY BOX at booties !!)

 

Sorry to disagree, but you have more than 3 of the same object so according to the "rules" you are a collector of the object & have a collection.

Goodness, by that rationale, I have SEVERAL collections heheh xxx

 

Thank you Joy x x x

 

I too stash stuff in places I thought that was just me!
My second fave thing to do in the world ( as opposed to actually finding treasure, my number one fave thing to do) is find stuff that I had totally forgotten about. Happens more often than you could probably imagine

 

Again I don't know how this happened but I have made a mess againnn

 

I call this Writers Block


Good lord,I also have one of these but it only has five pens in it...that is huge

 

I'm not seeing it !

 

I seem to collect collections, but having been on the forum for a couple of years, I know I'm not the only one.

Can it also be called collecting when you have only one of something, but are desperately trying to find more? I guess that is just searching. But I really love my little 'collection' of one.

 

Can it also be called collecting when you have only one of something, but are desperately trying to find more? I guess that is just searching. But I really love my little 'collection' of one.[/QUOTE]



ohh what do you have one of? Now that IS unusual here x

 

<3 <3 <3

 

In my pic, one of the things in it is a lead container. It WAS full of thicker leads until I opened it at the booty I bought it from...now it has a third of the number it had and they aren't as long as they were ! Dropped em everywhere! I have mad skilz in diving to the bottom of boxes so I did manage to get some back but I was annoyed at my beginner mistake! I should have known better!

 

It is, isn't it?
It is a tiny bronze figurine, made in a folk tradition specific to one town in East Java, which ended ca 1800. So you can guess there are not many of them.
They are a bit clumsily made, which I think is charming. And it was one of the last Hindu crafts in Java, the island was slowly becoming Islamic during the period these were made.
I know of a few collections scattered around the world, but most people just don't know them, which hopefully works to my advantage when I find any others.

 

Goodness...I am now intrigued. Have you a pic of it? I am always in utter awe of the information and knowledge in this lovely forum. Things I never would have ever heard of otherwise. I love it.
Gosh I do hope ( and have utter faith that you shall!) find more AJ!