So many members here seem to enjoy the virtues of public television programming I thought there might be some interest in bringing up this offering of theirs.
My mom collected antiques when we lived in NY and so I find myself intrigued with many of the items on the show. Here in northern MN where I now live we don't find many Chippendale chairs, chests or big ticket items and so I'm more interested in seeing some of the moderately priced country type of goods, items that might be collectible through the many estate auctions we have here in the country. You need only to walk into any convenience store, grocery mart, gas station etc to see the auction fliers posted up weekly, of course warmer weather means more auctions and buyers so some of the best deals are gotten on foul weather days.
I collect vintage (1920-40) Remington folding knives from auctions, garage sales and flea markets, most of the time I resell them on eBay but some of my high end finds I offer to well established collectors I'm familiar with at a set price. Right now I'm sitting on a very rare 1934 Remington R293 Bullet knife that was a giveaway from the Hunter-Trader-Trapper magazine (I collect those also) with a value of 4K if in mint condition, mine is close to mint and I have no need to sell it so I'll let it collect some more dust and equity if possible. So my knives are not quite antiques but older country collectibles.
Are any members here collectors of anything older than dust? We won't count seeds unless they're landrace genetics.......
corgi die-cast metal cars , batmobile, green hornet, others (wish the dinky toys / matchbox ones survived)... original mattel hot wheels cars; russell and cox slot cars; beautiful h.o. steam locomitive; 70-on spider-mans, captain americas, justice league, batman, superman, enemy ace, by jack kirby, steve ditko, no special ones e.g. great spideys that i can recall (though kirby's "the origin of captain america" i rember as great ... i think i lost my only jim steranko, cap vs. a hot hydra chick)
