What else periode related items do you collect?

[stuka f]

Like the title sujest; What else periode related items do you collect?
With periode related, I mean a few decades before and after the turn of the century (20th century!!).
I'll start by showing some of mine;
Telephones;

Old boxes with exeptional contence;

Buttons (all kinds!);

 

[joerookery]

Great question! For me I would say books. I have tons and tons of books. Nothing pretty or shiny and I have a heckuva time finding them!

 

[stuka f]

I stopted collecting books mainly because of the weight and space they take AND one has got all information on the net!
I realized what it was collecting books, after coming home on a regular base, with a book; say one a week and then having to move them when moving to a other house after 20 years....
But I am helping out a friend with probably the largest collection of old printing presses of the world, who also has a large collection of old books, so I would be intrested in seeing what you have or what you are intrested in!
Cheers
|<ris

 

[joerookery]

so I would be intrested in seeing what you have or what you are intrested in!

I am not interested in anything! I never expected to have this many. I told Glenn many years ago I was not a book collector. Now they are all over and I want to thin them out!

AND one has got all information on the net!

I don't think so. We have been doing a lot of original first source work. I am always learning something new. And yesterday I learned something that I always knew was wrong.

 

[Gustaf]

Great question! For me I would say books. I have tons and tons of books. Nothing pretty or shiny and I have a heckuva time finding them!

And one of his books is missing because someone borrowed it and did not return it.

 

[RON]

Could this 'someone' be the notorious ambulance restorer who occasionally smuggles ordnance grenades into Canada :-$ in his even more notorious truck? :greentank:

P.S.: I also collect mailed covers and postcards from the WW1 & WW2 eras myself as some of you already know (see here & here)

 

[Gustaf]

Could this 'someone' be the notorious ambulance restorer who occasionally smuggles ordnance grenades into Canada :-$ in his even more notorious truck? :greentank:

Did I mention the time I accidentally smuggled a revolver into England?

I collect books on WWI history published between 1915 and 1940

banknotes

toy tractors (1/64th scale)

WWI firearms

WWI grenades

WWI prophylactics

1942 GPWs

and dust