what else do you collect?

[moneyer12]

do you collect anything else besides coins??

i collect classic jaguars

my xk120 and ss100

Edited May 17, 2012 by moneyer12

[declanwmagee]

I collect Maps and Atlases that are especially interesting from an historical perspective. Favourites include "The People's Atlas", published in 1919, which portrays the Brave New World redrawn by Versailles, and descibes in the preface how these new boundaries will inevitably lead to an endless peace. Also, as an Appendix, has the full text of Wilson's Fourteen Points and the (facsimile) signatures of the Versailles participants.

On the other end of the scale, I have a street map of Belfast issued to the British Army in 1971, showing all the areas colour coded Orange or Green. I am working on making a Google Earth overlay out of it because, significantly, all the interface areas are heavily redeveloped and streets that used to run from the Shankill to the Falls, for instance, no longer do...

fascinating stuff...

[declanwmagee]

Example tile from the Belfast map.

In order to put it into Google Earth I have to split it into tiles and match them all in terms of scale and orientation to the current terrain, and to each other.

Lovely job of an evening for a semi-autistic coinie!

[Rob]

What are the areas that are neither orange nor green - a rare example of humanity happily tolerating and living with others not the same as them?

[choolie]

I've noticed that I start collecting things then find that I have spent far too much on one item and then have no money to do anything else, so I lose interest and move on. I went from coins to Czech Glass items to Inuit sculptures and now back to coins again.

I have also accumulated rather than collected musical instruments throughout my life. which has become a collection 2 guitars: 3 banjos (you can never have too many banjos) and a synthezizer all of which were very expensive and which my musicianship don't deserve.

my best banjo:

[declanwmagee]

What are the areas that are neither orange nor green - a rare example of humanity happily tolerating and living with others not the same as them?

Would that it was so, Rob - that's the "neutral" City Centre to the East of Millfield. I think (although I'm happy to be corrected) that the triangle between Peter's Hill and the Unity Flats was already rubble by 1971.

I imagine there were similar maps of Sarajevo in the pre-war '80s, or Beirut in the pre-war '60s.

[Peckris]

My record collection became a collection simply through inertia - they were bought as records, but I suddenly found circa 1989 that people collected vinyl, so I've hung onto them ever since!

[Accumulator]

Lovely Jaguars, Moneyer! I too like my classic cars

Amongst other things, I also have a few old penny slot machines. Here's three of them:

[davidrj]

Plants! Gardening in Summer (hopefully) Coins when weather is against going outside

[Peter]

I have a glass topped coffee table in the conservatory which is sectioned off and contains fossils,insects in amber,medals,musket balls & curio's.Not really a collection.

[argentumandcoins]

Idiots, they are drawn to me like a moth to a candle. "how rare is my undated twenty pence worth? I just paid £45 for it on ebay" etc etc

Edited May 18, 2012 by argentumandcoins

[Fubar]

Anything that passes my way.

Working in an auction house has its drawbacks come pay day.

Currently mostly nauticalia.

[Peckris]

Anything that passes my way.

Working in an auction house has its drawbacks come pay day.

Currently mostly nauticalia.

Aka porn?

[1949threepence]

Example tile from the Belfast map.

In order to put it into Google Earth I have to split it into tiles and match them all in terms of scale and orientation to the current terrain, and to each other.

Lovely job of an evening for a semi-autistic coinie!

That's really interesting, Declan. Two points I note: some streets are partly green and partly orange ~ that must have been difficult.

Also, the RUC station is in the green area ~ awkward.

I had to go to Belfast on work related business back in 2003, and despite the Good Friday agreement and all the talk of peace, it was obvious that sectarianism was a total way of life on both sides of the divide. Very, very friendly, hospitable and outgoing people, nonetheless, with a great sense of humour, and quite a lot of humour about the sectarianism itself. At one hostelry I went in for a meal, I got talking to a guy who said to me in a quiet voice "SShhhy, I'm the only f***** protestant in this pub, and they don't know"

Was a good two weeks, and I was almost sorry to leave.

[1949threepence]

My record collection became a collection simply through inertia - they were bought as records, but I suddenly found circa 1989 that people collected vinyl, so I've hung onto them ever since!

I don't know whether it's my imagination or not, but to me, stylus on vinyl sounds better than a CD, or downloaded track played through a PC. Deeper richer & more lifelike tones

My collection pieces other than coins, are decorative plates. They're plastered on every wall all over the house. It's only a small house, so I'm running out of room.

[Rob]

Example tile from the Belfast map.

In order to put it into Google Earth I have to split it into tiles and match them all in terms of scale and orientation to the current terrain, and to each other.

Lovely job of an evening for a semi-autistic coinie!

That's really interesting, Declan. Two points I note: some streets are partly green and partly orange ~ that must have been difficult.

Also, the RUC station is in the green area ~ awkward.

I had to go to Belfast on work related business back in 2003, and despite the Good Friday agreement and all the talk of peace, it was obvious that sectarianism was a total way of life on both sides of the divide. Very, very friendly, hospitable and outgoing people, nonetheless, with a great sense of humour, and quite a lot of humour about the sectarianism itself. At one hostelry I went in for a meal, I got talking to a guy who said to me in a quiet voice "SShhhy, I'm the only f***** protestant in this pub, and they don't know"

Was a good two weeks, and I was almost sorry to leave.

I haven't been there since the troubles have quietened down a lot, but still have memories of just about every visit there.

I remember being on the phone to the girlfriend in the early 80s, as the wife was at the time, when she said 'What's that?' - as a large bang sounded, the windows rattled and the building rumbled, but that bang was probably half a mile away. Answer, 'It's a bomb' and then the conversation resumed. I always found it difficult to reconcile the congenital ill-feeling towards the other side. I found the same thing in Boston MA too having given a truthful answer to a question about Northern Ireland. The question was 'How would you stop the fighting in N. Ireland?. The answer was 'Well, you could stop financing it'. There wasn't a happy face the whole length of the bar so I finished my beer and left, and I never got that job in the Diplomatic Corps.

[azda]

A very honest answer and i wiuld have said the same thing. What riles me about America is that they finaned the Afghanistan war in the 80s against the Russians but are more than annoyed when the same wespons are used against them and i'm more than sure they've played their part in the Arab uprisings from last year.

[1949threepence]

A very honest answer and i wiuld have said the same thing. What riles me about America is that they finaned the Afghanistan war in the 80s against the Russians but are more than annoyed when the same wespons are used against them and i'm more than sure they've played their part in the Arab uprisings from last year.

You only have to ask yourself what country has invaded and bombed other countries more than any other in the world, since 1945, to realise the uber controlling nature of successive US administrations.

[Peckris]

My record collection became a collection simply through inertia - they were bought as records, but I suddenly found circa 1989 that people collected vinyl, so I've hung onto them ever since!

I don't know whether it's my imagination or not, but to me, stylus on vinyl sounds better than a CD, or downloaded track played through a PC. Deeper richer & more lifelike tones

My collection pieces other than coins, are decorative plates. They're plastered on every wall all over the house. It's only a small house, so I'm running out of room.

Not your imagination - I have a subscription to MOJO and each month their featured interview asks "L.P., CD, or MP3?" - nine times out of ten the answer is LP. The most hated format is CD by a nose.

[declanwmagee]

Example tile from the Belfast map.

In order to put it into Google Earth I have to split it into tiles and match them all in terms of scale and orientation to the current terrain, and to each other.

Lovely job of an evening for a semi-autistic coinie!

That's really interesting, Declan. Two points I note: some streets are partly green and partly orange ~ that must have been difficult.

Also, the RUC station is in the green area ~ awkward.

I had to go to Belfast on work related business back in 2003, and despite the Good Friday agreement and all the talk of peace, it was obvious that sectarianism was a total way of life on both sides of the divide. Very, very friendly, hospitable and outgoing people, nonetheless, with a great sense of humour, and quite a lot of humour about the sectarianism itself. At one hostelry I went in for a meal, I got talking to a guy who said to me in a quiet voice "SShhhy, I'm the only f***** protestant in this pub, and they don't know"

Was a good two weeks, and I was almost sorry to leave.

It is fascinating isn't it? The streets that crossed the divide in 1971 no longer do, in most cases. They were where the barricades went up in August '69, and most of them stayed up till Operation Motorman in 1972. Ironically, Motorman was supposed to dismantle the barricades and thus the "No-Go" areas, but what actually happened is that they were replaced by Army barriers. Now, the divides are built into the city infrastructure, so for instance, Dover Street stops at the "Peace Line" on the Loyalist side, and new housing has been built straight across Percy Street. The barracks at Hastings Street was one of the first to be attacked in the early days and no longer exists. Streets like Coates Street are even more interesting, as one side of the road would have been Protestant, and the other Catholic.

[Fubar]

Anything that passes my way.

Working in an auction house has its drawbacks come pay day.

Currently mostly nauticalia.

Aka porn?

That would be naughticalia and we have regular customers for that.

[Fubar]

My record collection became a collection simply through inertia - they were bought as records, but I suddenly found circa 1989 that people collected vinyl, so I've hung onto them ever since!

I don't know whether it's my imagination or not, but to me, stylus on vinyl sounds better than a CD, or downloaded track played through a PC. Deeper richer & more lifelike tones

My collection pieces other than coins, are decorative plates. They're plastered on every wall all over the house. It's only a small house, so I'm running out of room.

Not your imagination - I have a subscription to MOJO and each month their featured interview asks "L.P., CD, or MP3?" - nine times out of ten the answer is LP. The most hated format is CD by a nose.

The vinyl must be played through valves rather than hissing transistors.

[DaveG38]

My record collection became a collection simply through inertia - they were bought as records, but I suddenly found circa 1989 that people collected vinyl, so I've hung onto them ever since!

I'm with you here regarding records. I built up a collection of about 200 vinyl LPs, eventually found that the stereo I had was on it's last legs and bought a new system. Didn't bother with a record deck and so I'm left with a pile of LPs. All in pretty good nick as I wasn't careless with them when they were bought and I'm amazed at the going prices for some of them. For example I have some early stones stuff, like 'Between the Buttons' and 'Aftermath' and these can go for around the £60 each mark. Ditto The Beatles and some of the other early rock material like the Who. There's a vinyl record specialist shop next to where my other half works part time, and they have some really interesting old and new material, and they have a phenomenal knowldge base.

As for other other interests, I have a Volvo P1800, but that's just a labour of love, not part of a collection. My other main interest is a Yamaha Motif XS synthsiser, which I have learned to use and have produced several songs on. Eventually, I want to get enough material together to produce a full blown album - top of the charts here I come. My stuff is my own style and as a result, and in keeping with my personal vintage, I call it the 'mature retro' genre! There's something about modern styles, using an older person's themes and Stratocasters that works for me.

[Accumulator]

[snip] ...one side of the road would have been Protestant, and the other Catholic.

Religion is the cancer in society, continuing to foster warfare and a host of other ills under a feeble veneer of legitimacy. When will we all wake up to reality?

[moneyer12]

i also have a decent collection of beermats, they can be had for free and it's interesting to see how many different ales i have drank in the last couple of years..............it's strange that i can still walk in a straight line.