Other collection passions

Records lots and lots of records.

Also records, I’m still using my fathers old Pioneer stereo from 1975.

Starbucks mugs. I hadn’t even left the country until I was close to 40. Since then I’ve been fortunate to see some amazing parts of this planet. We’re both coffee lovers in this house so I started buying mugs as a souvenir from places I’ve been.

Furniture… we’ve been slowly building up our MCM/teak collection.

Art. My walls are full of stuff from local artists. I have a pretty varied pottery collection as well. Heavy on West German pottery, but a decent mix of local artists as well.

I’m not the only collector in the house tho, we also have a large collection of Pyrex, jadeite, glass (Viking, L.E. Smith, Riihimaki, Empoli), lamps.

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Other passions include music, in the form of CDs. Are records akin to mechanical vs. CDs being quartz? 🧐

I also am working on a three-suit collection, with too many sports coats.

Fountain pens. Another form of useful art. 

Kiss (rock band) memorabilia, books on investing, autographs by Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and John Bogle.  Coins, figures and gadgets for my home office.  Other interests include playing guitar and an amateur magician.

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Unusual pokemon cards. The promotional ancient mew from the 2000 movie, the promotional holographic entai from the other movie, some metal plate cards and Funko pop!

Same here, but as with watches I've been trying to consolidate over the last couple of years. My living room used to be like 80% records and it was getting a bit ridiculous. Pretty happy that I've got it down to this (with another overspill unit in the bedroom).

Oh also books, CDs, DVDs/Blu-ray's, movie posters... I sometimes curse my granddad for giving me the collecting bug!

I retired my sneaker collection and my transformers and 80’s robot toys. Im just collecting watches and guitars at the moment 

Cool! Kiss aren't my thing but I'm fascinated by their marketing game. I don't think there are many household items that you can't get a Kiss branded version of! Have you seen their coffins?!

That's cool!

That's much 😂

But cool stuff though!

That's right. I want a good one some day as well!

Records seem to not be as uncommon as I thought. 

Sports coats are cool though 😅

That's much as well! But I kind of like the idea of some collection variation. 

The nice thing about fountain pens, is just like watches, you can get really good ones for reasonable money. 

I think in Germany it's generally very hard to legally get a gun, but I've just shot some hunting gun probably twice, so I don't feel the need of owning one either 😅

Cool! Just any magazines?

A real collecting habit 😅

Sounds interesting!

That's so cool! Somehow my gut tells me that that's a very nice hobby to get into. Don't know why, but everyone smoking pipes seems to be so calm and friendly, kind of how you stated. Thanks for sharing!

Nice! Cool guitars! What watch is that though 🥸😂

Sounds great! Thanks for sharing!

That's nice! Have you got a recommendation for me?

Dievas Marine 500. German brand sold on Gnomon Watches 

Depending on your view of reasonable…

The Pilot Metropolitan for around 25.00. Anything from Twsbi for 50-100.00.  the Platinum Century for the 100-250.00 range. The Pilot Custom 823 for the 250-500.00

No, pinup mags, movie-related mags. I like films with some erotic content, and mags writing about such films. It all hangs together. So, mags like Cinema X or Exciting Cinema or Take in the UK, Daily Girl and Caballero and Party in Germany, Cine Girl and Eroscore and Cine-Films in France, etc.

I started collecting vintage diving gear. Crazy to see how far the tech has come so quickly!

Thanks!

Thank you!

That sounds very interesting as well!