Do You Collect Anything?

[Kalacs_Orthopedic_Shoe]

The wife has a casual collection of these commemorative 50 pence pieces. I'm sick of them just laying about, so I went online to get her a coin folder to store them in today.

It got me thinking about the things people collect, so I thought I'd ask on here. What do you collect? (NONE LEICESTER RELATED)

[Strokes]

Old antique/vintage tools. Nothing expensive, and I use them rather than display them. I just find them interesting.

[Countryfox]

 

@FIF collects bans  ...  

 

Unfortunately I had to post that for him ...     cus he’s banned ...    

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

Roman coins and antiquities, Love collecting, and a great investment.

[Wolfox]

My other bizarre passion is vintage watches…. It’s been a hobby for years…. So many interesting designs and allows me to get my full geek on…

 

I have a few pretty rare bits and bobs that I’ve accumulated over the years

 

Every boy needs a hobby!

 

sone examples below 

 

 

 

Edited 15 August 2019 by Wolfox

[Countryfox]

4 minutes ago, Wolfox said:

My other bizarre passion is vintage watches…. It’s been a hobby for years…. So many interesting designs and allows me to get my full geek on…

 

I have a few pretty rare bits and bobs that I’ve accumulated over the years

 

Every boy needs a hobby!

 

sone examples below 

 

 

 

 

Quite like those ...   I have a good collection of watches too ...    and I like collecting knives ...   

[Wolfox]

1 minute ago, Countryfox said:

 

Quite like those ...   I have a good collection of watches too ...    and I like collecting knives ...   

Thank you

 

What have  you got?  Load of knife collectors in the watch collecting communities…. Not understood why they are linked?!!

[Countryfox]

3 minutes ago, Wolfox said:

Thank you

 

What have  you got?  Load of knife collectors in the watch collecting communities…. Not understood why they are linked?!!

 

I think for me they are linked because of the detailed work that goes into making them .....    and in both cases they are something that I can use.

 

I've got a few Omegas, a few Breitlings, and several other makes including my first 'saved up for watch' a wafer thin Gucci ...

[Wolfox]

3 minutes ago, Countryfox said:

 

I think for me they are linked because of the detailed work that goes into making them .....    and in both cases they are something that I can use.

 

I've got a few Omegas, a few Breitlings, and several other makes including my first 'saved up for watch' a wafer thin Gucci ...

Yep…. Practical and well engineered…. Fair enough 

 

No Breitling but one Omega…, one of the very first Quartz watches by Omega…. The Mariner 1 - super accurate and very 70’s!

 

rare as hens teeth

 

[FoxesDeb]

Clothes, shoes and handbags  

[Costock_Fox]

58 minutes ago, Wolfox said:

My other bizarre passion is vintage watches…. It’s been a hobby for years…. So many interesting designs and allows me to get my full geek on…

 

I have a few pretty rare bits and bobs that I’ve accumulated over the years

 

Every boy needs a hobby!

 

sone examples below 

 

 

 

Now we know why you are called wolfox.

[RumbleFox]

1 hour ago, Strokes said:

Old antique/vintage tools. Nothing expensive, and I use them rather than display them. I just find them interesting.

I bought a huge job lot of vintage tools the other day.  Unfortunately I sold them on but if I get anymore I can send you pics in case there is anything that takes your fancy.

[RumbleFox]

1 hour ago, Wolfox said:

My other bizarre passion is vintage watches…. It’s been a hobby for years…. So many interesting designs and allows me to get my full geek on…

 

I have a few pretty rare bits and bobs that I’ve accumulated over the years

 

Every boy needs a hobby!

 

sone examples below 

 

 

 

Some really nice pieces.  

 

I buy and sell vintage and antique watches for a living so although I do not really "collect" them I usually have 50 or so in stock.  It can be a dangerously expensive hobby if you get carried away.

[Wolfox]

4 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said:

Now we know why you are called wolfox.

Totally lost !!!!  

 

1 minute ago, RumbleFox said:

Some really nice pieces.  

 

I buy and sell vintage and antique watches for a living so although I do not really "collect" them I usually have 50 or so in stock.  It can be a dangerously expensive hobby if you get carried away.

Thank you

 

You can get very giddy with these kind of things…. I am very careful with what I do do and don’t get…

 

Interesting line of business….  Such a mine field with these things though…. You  really need to know what you’re looking at…. It’s taken years of research to feel confident…. I imagine you’re well beyond me If your earning living!

 

i justify it, as I enjoy it and I am welll in the black if I needed to cash it all in…. Better the premium bonds!

[spacemunky]

Dust

[RumbleFox]

28 minutes ago, Wolfox said:

Totally lost !!!!  

 

Thank you

 

You can get very giddy with these kind of things…. I am very careful with what I do do and don’t get…

 

Interesting line of business….  Such a mine field with these things though…. You  really need to know what you’re looking at…. It’s taken years of research to feel confident…. I imagine you’re well beyond me If your earning living!

 

i justify it, as I enjoy it and I am welll in the black if I needed to cash it all in…. Better the premium bonds!

Och I don't know that much and I steer clear of most modern watches as some of the fakes are amazing. I tend to try and stick to 50/60s mechanical watches and earlier, including pocket watches. Also I'm not a high end dealer (anything from £10 to about £1000) so often the watches I buy and sell aren't ones that would be targeted for fakes. It is difficult though but I enjoy it. I used to work for an auction house so I have enough seen a lot of items even if I've not owned them which helps get a feel for fakes. I sell Victorian and Edwardian jewellery too which is easier to authenticate and other random collectables and Antiques. I'll never be rich but I make enough to get by and it's  better than a real job.

Edited 15 August 2019 by RumbleFox

[Langston]

Beermats, not a collection I willingly started mind

[Costock_Fox]

1 hour ago, Wolfox said:

Totally lost !!!!  

 

Hairy hands 

[RumbleFox]

I collect failures and broken dreams. X 

Edited 15 August 2019 by RumbleFox

[murphy]

1 hour ago, RumbleFox said:

Och I don't know that much and I steer clear of most modern watches as some of the fakes are amazing. I tend to try and stick to 50/60s mechanical watches and earlier, including pocket watches. Also I'm not a high end dealer (anything from £10 to about £1000) so often the watches I buy and sell aren't ones that would be targeted for fakes. It is difficult though but I enjoy it. I used to work for an auction house so I have enough seen a lot of items even if I've not owned them which helps get a feel for fakes. I sell Victorian and Edwardian jewellery too which is easier to authenticate and other random collectables and Antiques. I'll never be rich but I make enough to get by and it's  better than a real job.

I could have written that Rumble!

 

In a previous life I had a proper job and it was properly shit but antique dealing really is a piece of piss isn't it?

 

 

[Itsthejoeker]

Am I the only comic book collector here?

[foxfanazer]

In 2016 I started collecting the salty tears of North London football fans. Got gallons of the stuff now

[Dr The Singh]

[MPH]

i used to collect old Noritake chinaware.  the hand painted stuff from the 30s, 40s era. some of the pieces were absolutely beautiful.  I had to sell it all when i left England. Surprisingly, there was quite a lot of it around in England and the states as soldiers stationed in Japan brought it back over after the war.

 

 

Stuff like this:

 

 

[FoxyPalace.com]