What do YOU Collect?

Do you collect any particular type of Ephemera?

Postcards?

Magazines?

Show us your collections!!!

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Permalink Reply by Le Petit Poulailler on December 28, 2010 at 4:22pm

lol I just read this to my husband and he said ... "What DON'T you collect???!"

I collect English tobacco cards. Everything else I collect (and yes, it's a lot of different stuff) I collect with the idea of selling it later.

But the tobacco cards, for the most part, I keep. Only duplicates find their way to my shops.

(excellent new group, Elsie love ... hope your holidays are proceeding nicely ♥_

xo karen

Permalink Reply by Purple Cow Antiques on December 28, 2010 at 8:51pm

I guess I collect early twentieth century magazines.....they are intended for sale but every time I get the tubs (plural!) out to sort I end up reading and then repacking them. Love old magazines. Like the "other" Karen :) most of my ephemera is for resale.....I just can't seem to part with those mags......

Kare

Permalink Reply by Le Petit Poulailler on December 28, 2010 at 8:56pm

My husband wants me to start collection U.S. dollar bills. Fives, tens, twenties ... he's not particular.

Permalink Reply by Callooh Callay on December 28, 2010 at 9:18pm

I'm not a big collector really--don't get me wrong, I have lots and lots of stuff, but aside from books there's nothing that I feel I have to have many of.

But I do have a small collection of postcards starting. I sell them because I like them (don't always make a lot of money), but there are some I haven't been able to part with. Most of the ones I keep are early 1900s, some of them with bizarre flying machines or futuristic themes.

Susan

Permalink Reply by Judy McGarry on December 29, 2010 at 1:24am

I collect (keep some and sell some) mainly postcards. Anything between 1900 and 1970. At first I thought the new postcards would be less interesting but actually they are more interesting as they are of places I have visited. I also like collecting vintage greeting cards, trade cards, Valentines, maps and other ephemera. I have some old magazines too. I guess you could say I collect about anything.

Permalink Reply by Purple Daisy Jewelry on December 29, 2010 at 1:24pm

I unofficially collect postcards, but I am inexplicably drawn to any old print (letters, scrapbooks, books, stuff I can read and photos). I have little stashes of it around. Eventually, I will sell most I imagine - except for my favorite post cards.

Permalink Reply by Estelle T. Barada on December 30, 2010 at 10:20pm

I collect Victorian and Vintage paper dolls. Not for sale, just enjoyment.

Permalink Reply by Texas Skye on December 31, 2010 at 8:59pm

old railroad stuff, old legal documents, sports programs, letters...

Permalink Reply by Purple Cow Antiques on January 2, 2011 at 6:08pm

I once bought an estate that had a big group of WWII letters in it. The lady was married twice, first to a airman who died in combat, and then near the end of the war to an Army sargent who also died in battle. I read them all in chronological order....it was very sad. I kept them together for a long time not knowing what to do with them and not finding any family members that were interested. I finally gave them to a client who bought letters and was hoping to use them as a basis for a novel she was writing. I wish now I had kept track to see if she followed through.

Texas Skye said:

old railroad stuff, old legal documents, sports programs, letters...

Permalink Reply by Charmed Life on January 2, 2011 at 8:57pm

I collect postcards ... which started in the 1970s when my best friend was deployed in the Navy. We kept in touch that way for years ... now we're married, and have started collecting them together.

We have the idea that we'd like to have postcards of places we visit -- put them in an album, and then collect vintage postcards from the same place. We have some current ones from Niagara Falls, and I've found some older ones. It's a "vision" we'll fulfill someday.

One spot we have collected a few from is Mt. Rainier, some from the early 1900s, alongside current ones. It's fun to look at how a place has changed through the decades.

Permalink Reply by LilacsNDreams on January 3, 2011 at 5:01pm

I like to collect old post cards. I will get one here or there when out in roam. I did go thrifting 1 day, and found an "old" scrapbook at the store. I got it for a reasonable for what was in it. Some old post cards, some old birthday cards, newspaper clipping of a child & some doctor, and it was amazing! I loved looking at all of it, and the book stays sitting on an corner end table I have:)

Permalink Reply by Judy McGarry on January 3, 2011 at 6:00pm

It seems we have a number of postcard collectors. And to find an old scrapbook. I am envious. I love propping myself up at night on the bed and looking through my postcards.