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Some of my collections are extensions and additions of my grandfathers and fathers as well. Marbles, tops, bamboo fly rods, sxs's, tools, knives, and vintage 28 gauge shell boxes are my interest areas.
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I always thought this was cool. My Dad bought it for his Dad many, many years ago. When my Grandfather died, my Dad gave it to me. It now resides in my gun cabinet.
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Alfred, Is it a bottle cap opener?
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It is. I always found it odd as neither were dog men, nor gun guys. My Dad stopped hunting before I was born, and only owned two firearms, a Marlin .32 Winchester Special and a Remington Model 1100 Trap Gun that I bought him as a birthday gift while I was in the Navy. My youngest son now owns the Trap Gun.
My Mom used to say that I got my "gun thing" from her Dad. He died in 1945 so I never met him, but my Mom told me that he enjoyed bird hunting and always kept an Irish Setter around. |
Upland sporting books. Pennsylvania (Kentucky) Long Rifles. I stick to local rifles, Bedford ,Somerset, and Cambria County makers.
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Just many different things, Mainly Sharps Rifles lately, and a couple SBT guns, I have a weakness for Colt revolvers, Viper, and Boa's sold my set of Boa's regreted it ever since, Gary
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Rocks. About 25 years ago I started picking up a small rock to bring home from most hunting trips. I use them as paper weights, ball markers on the golf course and just enjoy picking one up now and then to remember. My most treasured collection is my collection of friends and I am always searching for my next one. I have found that good friends enrich my life in immeasurable ways, cost virtually nothing but are of great value.
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One year, I found a crystal outcropping sticking out the side of a rocky hillside, and decided it needed to come home. This was at the end of a deer hunt in Northern Nevada. I couldn't pry it loose, so walked off about 50-60 yards and put a 160 gr Nozler Partition in just to the side of it. The stone came loose, and is in my "collection". |
I’ve got an accumulation of a lot of sporting memorabilia. From art to decoys to shell boxes to lots of stuff.
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The Yellow Labrador opener is from 1980…. bought at the Old Forge Hardware Store In Old Forge, New York |
I also collect German Shorthairs, but only in pairs.
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Catalogs of all kinds,old fly reels,salmon flies,vises,woodworking tools,figured lumber,folk art furniture,antlers,horns and many,many books.
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Antique folding (pocket) knives; and for fixed blade knives: butcher, chefs, and cleavers; and related books and catalogues.
Vintage fishing boat photos, and recorded interviews of many of the people that worked on them. “Curated" trout and salmon flies that were my father's (1916-1993), some still in their unopened packages. Anchors (how far would I have to travel before I found another anchor collector?). I still have stored in steel ammunition boxes the matchbooks that my brother and I collected in our youth (the baseball cards typically disappeared long ago). |
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