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Hampton, what a SPECTACULAR collection! Simply lovely.

 

Guys can we please not fight over who displays what? If you don't like something, then simply don't comment on it. It's easier than saying something and twisting up the whole thread with uncomfortable remarks.

Corey your rifles & handguns are an impressive collection. You should be proud of the array that you've got.

 

Whoa....no one's fighting......just an opinion made.

I don't own a gun....even though I've shot several, & was once a member of a shooting range, with a valid firearms license .
If I were an American...I'd have a collection....as I see beauty and artistry in their manufacture.

 

Hampton...love the maple leaf pins.

 

Thank you Komokwa, that photo represents about a third of the maple leaf pins that I have in my collection.

 

Haven't really been able to add to my collection in the past few years, but the pic of the cases on my dining room wall is about half of my spoons - decided years ago to cull as I added, limiting it to 500 spoons, upgraded to 600, quite a bit over that at the moment, probably time to cull again (the framed items are 'spoon' postcards. The other two pics show a couple of rare pieces, the dragonfly reliably attributed to German jewelry manufacturer Meyle & Mayer; the other a Gorham cast souvenir spoon (they were only produced for a short time in the early 1890s), pictured with an 1895 ad I discovered, showing the 1892 design for the Alpha Phi sorority at Syracuse University - last I heard, the only other known example was in the RISD Gorham Collection, origin of the design noted as unknown...

~Cheryl

 

cleaning a tub of bottles (have 2 more tubs to go lol) i collected over the years .

 

do you collect patches also ?

 

Love the police caps!

 

Old coin ops...

 

Very cool, Michael!

 

This is part of the fabric hoard. I'm a quilter...and fabric happens. The fact that I also work in fleece (just worked on a fleece "top" this afternoon) and flannel doesn't help. Some of my cookbooks are in the back. I buy the Better Homes books from the 60s when I can get them and use them as wedding gifts. They're the "grandma cookbooks" every kid wants, but sometimes there are 15 kids and only one book.

 

Yup, I agree with SBSVC, very cool pieces Michael

 

Nice collection Michael!!!!!

 

Evelyb 30, I understand the fabric piles!!! I worked with a pediatric physical therapist for a few years, who was also a quilter, and always knew where I could pass off my piles of scraps!!!! And boy did she have piles!!!! Never said 'no'!!!! She hand quilted everything too!!! Old fashioned and beautiful work!!! I don't think she has time to do much with it anymore....time and family has drifted us apart as well.....too bad

 

It happens. I never did hand quilt much of anything; even I'm not that crazy. Besides, there have been times when I've had a 24 hour turnaround and you just can't do that with hand quilting - more like 24 months! I do make quilt tops and stash them, so in case of emergency just pull out and assemble.

I was involved in another Secret Santa exchange on another site, and the giftee is a quilter. One guess what I used to wrap her gifts and stuff the box!