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Post by Christian Ankerstjerne on Apr 19, 2006 7:29:50 GMT -5
I wondered how many on the forum collects actiques. Personally, I enjoy collecting paper items - mainly based around the Third Reich, but also varous other paper items (working in a bank, I collect paper money of all kinds - especially inflation money and old stocks and bonds are fun, and often small works of art).
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Post by Christy on Apr 19, 2006 12:58:31 GMT -5
I don't really, but only because it can be expensive and raising three children in a single-income family sort of precludes some of the more out-there hobbies I'd like to have.
That said, I do have my grandfather's coin collection he amassed during his WWII travels. I also have his old stereo-- a Graetz Scherzo 6817. No idea how old it is or what it's worth, but to me it's totally worth keeping because as a child I used to listen to foreign language stations on it all the time while laying on his bed. It still works, and my kids LOVE listening to the same sorts of the foreign language broadcasts that I enjoyed as a kid.
Other than that, most of my collectibles are just personal kitsch. ;-)
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Post by Christian Ankerstjerne on Apr 20, 2006 6:37:16 GMT -5
I can certainly see your point. I tend to look at it as a savings as well - that helps to justify the expenses. I searched a bit, and found this for you: < www.del-service.de/graetz_radio.htm> |
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Post by tomwbarker on Apr 20, 2006 12:36:29 GMT -5
I collect old cola bottles. I do not know why, I just think they are kinda cool and they are not generally that expensive. As a historian I also feel like I collect books. My wife wants to knwo when I decieded to start a library.
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Post by Christian Ankerstjerne on Apr 20, 2006 13:56:07 GMT -5
He he - you know you have too many books when you accidentally buy the same book twice (hasn't happened to me yet, though being a movie buff I have accidentally bought the same DVD twice at one point (which is not surprising, seeing as I have wellover 300  )). I guess that life partners are the fear of any collection, be it books, model kits, photographs et al. |
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Post by tomwbarker on Apr 21, 2006 9:18:54 GMT -5
Yeah . . . I have over 500 movies on DVD, I won't say how I got them all, with at least 150 of them being Kung fu or old Samurai Movies.
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Post by Christy on Apr 21, 2006 9:22:33 GMT -5
Our collection of books was in the thousands, and we signed up at alibris to dump off a lot of them. We've been selling them off for over a year now, and still have over 2,000 reference, children's, non-fiction, and other religious books... We have one tiny shelf of fiction. LOL
Anyway, I'm the book nerd who can't bring myself to get rid of too many of them!
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Post by Christy on Apr 21, 2006 9:25:18 GMT -5
Now that I think about it, I think part of my deal with the books is that I HATE taking notes, so I can't read without highlighting throughout, which means I can't do library books, and which means that all my books have my stuff highlighted and I want to have it if I ever need it again.
One day, I will be less neurotic. One day. ;-)
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Post by Christian Ankerstjerne on Apr 21, 2006 11:04:32 GMT -5
I don't like library books for the reason of chaos. I never know when I'll need a reference book, and there aren't any libraries open at four AM. Furthermore, I have a habbit of misplacing books, so if I was to use library books, I'd pay as much in late fees as I spend on books. Does makes for some interesting 'finds' now a then, though, and it has forced me to be able to remember passages more or less verbatim (including source)  . I wouldn't dream of bending corners for bookmarks, highlighting or throwing books out, though - I consider that a deadly sin. If I find something in a book, I'll just have to remember where it was for when I need it at some point. If you think books are bad, you don't want to start collecting documents, though. I have many thousands of pages of photocopied documents (both from archives and private collections), as well as a few very nice original documents. Theprice per page is higher, and the information level not nearly as condensed, so I end up paying ten times what I'd have paid for the book, but on the other hand, I then know the info is correct. |
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Post by tomwbarker on Apr 21, 2006 11:18:52 GMT -5
I guess that one of ht enice things about beign a grad student here is I have the book for 4 months will unlimited renews.
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Post by Christy on Apr 21, 2006 13:28:34 GMT -5
I guess that one of ht enice things about beign a grad student here is I have the book for 4 months will unlimited renews. Oooooooooooooooooooooooh, envy! But I will be a grad student with similar privileges this fall. Can't wait! |
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Post by tomwbarker on Apr 21, 2006 18:32:39 GMT -5
Where at? What will you get an MA in?
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Post by Christy on Apr 22, 2006 19:42:11 GMT -5
I'll be getting my masters in social work at University of South Carolina, so I can work either with juvenile justice or the foster care system. :-)
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Post by Christian Ankerstjerne on Apr 24, 2006 12:14:50 GMT -5
My scanner worked today (yay! :  , so as promised, here are the maps. The scans really doesn't do them justice - the image part is just below 20 cm., but the detail surprisingly good, especially considering that they are more than 300 years old. Of interest is Tibet, which is the orange country above India - compare to the size of China (yellow) with todays Tibet.   |
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Post by tomwbarker on Apr 24, 2006 15:11:59 GMT -5
cool maps!! I feel like the Asia one should have a little note "not to scale" on it.
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, so as promised, here are the maps. The scans really doesn't do them justice - the image part is just below 20 cm., but the detail surprisingly good, especially considering that they are more than 300 years old.