Education & Reference The post your collection thread

[PT Bar None]

I got some VFL footy cards that are starting to get some age - got a Hawthorn Gary Ablett Sr one.

Also got a 1983 Scanlens VFL sticker book that is complete. Think that was the first year Scanlens did them for the VFL?

 

[MatthewB]

I've got 1000's of baseball cards from the 80's and 90's at mum, had a few collector cards that was worth some back in the 90's not sure what they would be worth now


i can remember collecting the Scanlen cricket sticker book from 83/84, i think mum had to buy the last couple for me, i kept pulling the same cards towards the end

I got some VFL footy cards that are starting to get some age - got a Hawthorn Gary Ablett Sr one.

Also got a 1983 Scanlens VFL sticker book that is complete. Think that was the first year Scanlens did them for the VFL?

 

[Better Loosen Up]

Those sticker books would be worth a fair bit now I imagine

 

[Hawk Dork]

I got some VFL footy cards that are starting to get some age - got a Hawthorn Gary Ablett Sr one.

Also got a 1983 Scanlens VFL sticker book that is complete. Think that was the first year Scanlens did them for the VFL?

Ive got 72
The set turns into a BnW picture of the 71 grandfinal on the back
From memory Dons Scott rucking

 

[Scotland]

Mint condition grading is hard to achieve with things like cards, comic books etc. Difference in value in something that is 9 or 10 out of 10 vs 7 or can be huge.

I have some old basketball cards somewhere. I don't think they are worth much.

 

[Better Loosen Up]

Two Michael Jordan Rookie Cards Just Sold for a Record-Setting $738,000 Each

Two Gem Mint 10 Michael Jordan 1986 Fleer rookie cards sold for a record-setting $738,000 each at auction on January 30, 2021.

robbreport.com

 

[MatthewB]

Those sticker books would be worth a fair bit now I imagine

just looked up the book i had and they range from $25 empty and upto $95 partially filled, stickers by them self are $5 each, god looking at that brought back some memories

 

[HeathySure]

My DVD/Bluray collection
Its 2 deep and there are heaps of others strewn around the house lol

 

[the_interloper]

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That's one of my bookshelves of cricket books, top two and a half shelves are all signed copies.

Geez I hope whoever gets the collection when you cark it appreciates it

 

[The_Todd07]

A couple of years ago I started a collection of Metal Earth models. They come as laser cut metal sheets, where you pop out the pieces then bend them into shape and build the model.
These are the one I've completed so far


And this is the one I'm halfway through and an example of what you start with

 

[Gough]

Geez I hope whoever gets the collection when you cark it appreciates it

I'd sell the whole lot now for the right price, there aren't a whole load of complete runs of the ABC Cricket Book lying around the place.

 

[cats_09]

A couple of years ago I started a collection of Metal Earth models. They come as laser cut metal sheets, where you pop out the pieces then bend them into shape and build the model.
These are the one I've completed so far
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And this is the one I'm halfway through and an example of what you start with
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They look so cool

I've got a couple of Star Wars ones, but they are still in sheet form as I'm not sure where to start

 

[The_Todd07]

They look so cool

I've got a couple of Star Wars ones, but they are still in sheet form as I'm not sure where to start

I haven't done any star wars ones but from what I've seen the older ones weren't too difficult but they've really ramped it up with the newer models
That said as long as you take your time, none of them are too hard

 

[cats_09]

I haven't done any star wars ones but from what I've seen the older ones weren't too difficult but they've really ramped it up with the newer models
That said as long as you take your time, none of them are too hard

Any tips or tricks for starting out - guessing a good pair of needle nose pliers are helpful/needed

 

[Soups]

Currently have 30+ indoor plants in my place.

 

[The_Todd07]

Any tips or tricks for starting out - guessing a good pair of needle nose pliers are helpful/needed

I just started out with some fine needle nose pliers for bending pieces and twisting tabs, a family small flat head screw driver for folding over tabs and small side cutters for removing the pieces

Once I bought a larger ICONX model, the tweezers that come with those were awesome. A cheap drill bit set works brilliantly for bending parts into cylinders

You will drop pieces so working over a magnetic mat will hopefully catch them, rather than trying to find them on the floor

 

[Hawk Dork]

Any tips or tricks for starting out - guessing a good pair of needle nose pliers are helpful/needed

theres youtubes
looks like you need tweezers and jeweller pliers for cutting a straight edge

 

[William Wonka]

Lenin was probably worse, though Stalin is the one who is most compared to Hitler, both being WW2 leaders. A lot of historians say Stalin was worse.

Lenin worse than Hitler?
Are you talking about haircuts???

Not even the most biased take could put Lenins legacy on the same planet.

As Gough stated previously there is no comparison in ideology either.


Also getting back on subject- how long has owning books been described as collecting?

 

[DFWGrapher]

I can't post my entire sports collection here-- but it has something like 180,000 cards and a good 15,000 autographs on cards, photos, baseballs, hockey pucks, whatever. I'm hoping to add some AFL autographs to it soon. I don't have anything super-valuable (a few in the hundreds of dollars, but none of the crazy six-figure stuff that's making the news lately), I just do it for fun, not investing.

I also am building a decent guitar collection, seen here. Not pictured: my two cigar box style guitars that I built myself or the bass I'm about to buy, or the bass I previously had that I disassembled.

TOP: me playing my mandolin (screencap from a video of the Dallas Open Carry Guitar Rally in 2017)
BOTTOM LEFT: playing my Starfield 12-string from the 1970s that was once my grandfather's
BOTTOM MIDDLE: my regular 6-string acoustic by Austin (my first guitar), Fender '69 Thinline Telecaster reissue, Samick Avion AV3 (basically a Les Paul copy), Fender splatter Stratocaster (my first electric)
BOTTOM RIGHT: Gretsch G5430T, with my pedalboard and original 1976 Fender Twin Reverb amp

 

[Shell]

phantom13 TheLoungeLizard

 

[Shell]

Currently have 30+ indoor plants in my place.

If that was my house, they'd be all dead within a month.


Maybe less.

 

[phantom13]

I can't post my entire sports collection here-- but it has something like 180,000 cards and a good 15,000 autographs on cards, photos, baseballs, hockey pucks, whatever. I'm hoping to add some AFL autographs to it soon. I don't have anything super-valuable (a few in the hundreds of dollars, but none of the crazy six-figure stuff that's making the news lately), I just do it for fun, not investing.

I also am building a decent guitar collection, seen here. Not pictured: my two cigar box style guitars that I built myself or the bass I'm about to buy, or the bass I previously had that I disassembled.

TOP: me playing my mandolin (screencap from a video of the Dallas Open Carry Guitar Rally in 2017)
BOTTOM LEFT: playing my Starfield 12-string from the 1970s that was once my grandfather's
BOTTOM MIDDLE: my regular 6-string acoustic by Austin (my first guitar), Fender '69 Thinline Telecaster reissue, Samick Avion AV3 (basically a Les Paul copy), Fender splatter Stratocaster (my first electric)
BOTTOM RIGHT: Gretsch G5430T, with my pedalboard and original 1976 Fender Twin Reverb amp

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This is unreal

 

[Caesar]

Lenin worse than Hitler?
Are you talking about haircuts???

Not even the most biased take could put Lenins legacy on the same planet.

As Gough stated previously there is no comparison in ideology either.

Think I'll back rask's knowledge of Russian history over yours

 

[Soups]

If that was my house, they'd be all dead within a month.


Maybe less.

Going away for 2 months with work. They’ll be struggling.

 

[Shell]

Going away for 2 months with work. They’ll be struggling.

Cant get anyone at all to stop by and water them??