Do you collect other sporting items besides Parkers?
 

My collectioning interests are centered around my love of duck hunting so I have a small collection of vintage decoys, vintage duck calls, a few pieces of sporting art and two piece shotgun shell boxes. How about you????

I am also a duck hunter. Have carved about 75 birds, and most of them have gone down the road to people who were anxious to buy cheap frauds. I've even had seller's remorse on several birds, and have been able to buy them back. They ain't goin' nowhere now. I still have two mallard rigs which will go to my grandson who is a hunter. I've kept about a half dozen of my better birds

My love of waterfowl hunting led to collecting related items also: decoys, calls, water fowling guns, duck boats etc. That branched out to building duck boats and decoys for myself and others. I also began collecting fishing rods, reels and tackle, both fresh and saltwater, knives, bows and arrows, sporting art and anything outdoor sporting related. Much of it still surrounds me but unfortunately boxed and not displayed as much. It appears that now is the time to let it go but as we all know that is extremely hard to do. I would like it to be as appreciated as it was to me. I was never interested in high grades or pristine items just those that had a history of honest use and represented what they were intended for.

I've got a collection of bamboo fly rods and classic fly reels. Wildlife art prints. Wild bird, raptor and duck decoy carvings. I'm now down to just a couple wooden boats and a few pairs of Ferdy Goode snowshoes.

The internet makes it too easy to accumulate too much stuff!

Knives, pocket and fixed blade.

I don't "collect" any one thing or kind of thing, but I am certainly a Professional Accumulator :)!

My situation exactly. I pick up about anything rare and interesting connected to any of my guns or any other "stuff". I akways thought of it as pyramid collecting.

I have found that this sort of ephemria is attractive when selling something.

I’ve been collecting sporting books for much longer than I have double guns. My focus has been American upland game books, but waterfowl is included.

Used to collect women but that’s a very very unprofitable hobby :rotf::rotf::rotf:

Sporting Prints
 

My other weakness is collecting sporting prints,

I have a hard time finding excuses to buy them for, wish I had more wall space but so it goes.

I have a few Case knives and a few other Made in USA knives.

This is starting to sound like a confession, I had better stop:eek:

I am the Curator of The Phil Yearout Museum of the Completely Unrelated, Mostly Forgotten and Largely Useless. :cool:

I stopped at an estate sale in an affluent area of Baltimore some time back. The lady of the house was throwing the leftovers in a dumpster and I asked if there was any outdoor equipment left (outdoor equipment, as in guns, ammo, or decoys). She told me everything was sold, but I could look in an outbuilding. I looked in the building and found wooden boxes full of antique decoy weights. Some of them were cut from 2 1/2" stainless steel stock, into open water weights. There were a bunch of them and way more than a bunch of lead weights. It turned out that the weights had belonged to Glenn L. Martin, aircraft tycoon, and also a serious waterfowler. There must have been hundreds of dollars worth of stainless steel in those boxes. She told me to pay her twenty dollars if I wanted those "boxes". That day, I became a decoy weight collector. Only Glenn L. Martin would use stainless steel from his factory to avoid going to a sporting good store to buy weights. Some years ago, I married a woman, The Lovely Linda, who I was to find out, had a father who carved decoys. After he passed away, I found out that he had never sold a decoy. I became a decoy collector, but only decoys carved by one person. Those are only two examples of how we get into collecting hunting related "stuff". It only gets worse with the books and the guns.

I am the odd one
 

Interesting thread Craig……

I collect too many items. Old African hunting books, upland game hunting books, some bird carvings, and other related BS.

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Ken

I had a nice collection of Orvis bamboo rods. I am down to only three. I had a large collection of Buck, Case & Camillus bird knives. Down to about half a dozen or so of those. Lightening my load I guess.

I love vintage Colt and S&W revolvers.

I was bitten by the collecting bug way early in life
- nice collection of antique decoys
- nice collection of sporting paintings mostly illustrations some from WH Foster I posted a few on the site a few years ago
- early fishing reels
- military and early hunting knives, axes, jackknives
- old wood working tools
- old hunting and fishing magazines, hunting books
The list goes on
Now the challenge is to whittle down the pile.
The fun is in the chase similar to hunting.

Winchester pump .22's: Models 1890, 1906, 62's and 61's.

Antique Maine Trout and Salmon mounts/carvings but the greats. Fishing creels and many old Wood/Canvas canoes.

I think the largest amount of items in one grouping is when I was hung up on Marlin lever actions . Think I had over 125 . My biggest by item collection was steam engines when I had three for a total weight of about 38,000-40,000 pounds . I think the most dollar consuming was when I started accumulating Parker’s .

haha...I bet I’m the only one here with a small collection of historic and classic surfboards and snowboards. I do have a bunch of old side by sides too.

Besides collecting guns-I have acquired several decoys(masons and individual carvers) Some Winchester store items(my favorite is a early super rare 1920's wooden childs wagon in beautiful untouched condition with store tag). A few examples of sporting art-one by Edmund Osthaus. I used to have several shotshell boxes and antique ammo but only kept a couple of favorites. I also have around 15 fishing creels from top makers like Lawrence and Macmonies. Almost forgot to mention the antique Limoge game plates and the whole set of antique Buffalo pottery game plates in my china cabinet made by Gustav Stickley in the 1920's.

Besides Parkers, I collect (and shoot) varmint caliber rifles, MSRs, Parker catalogs and other items with the Parker name attached, Lefever guns, fixed blade, folding and assisted opening knives… also have a lot of books from various genres, a nice baseball card collection, reloading equipment, tools, Hawaiian shirts, and last but not least, BLING!! ���� Can’t forget various forms of tunage whether on vinyl or CD. ��

Ditto here, to the letter.





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Because way back in my early years i couldn't afford to buy decoys, i ordered cork blocks and carved them. Did this for many years as my friends that i duck hunted with always were asking me to make some for them. Have a few left that ive made and will keep for my two grandsons. I particularly enjoyed making them out of high density cork blocks.

I was not previously aware of this, but according to my wife, I collect everything.

Upland prints, books, English Setter related items, and thanks to Destry gun patches.

As long as she lets you collect, why say anything!?:)

Thanks everyone for your posts. I think it's interesting to see what others collect besides Parker guns. When we meet, online or at events, it's fun to connect with Parker friends on different collecting subjects/ passions.

Probably mostly dust.:)

Atleast your wife understands the concept of “collecting or accumulating” . That whole concept is lost on my Filipina wife lols ! She says when o go to a shoot it’s “socializing” not shooting and to be honest to a degree she’s correct . :rotf::rotf::rotf:

Edgar, just tell her your most valuable item in your collection is your trophy wife. You’re Welcome.

Why do you need a decoy for cork? Are cork wiley? Asking for a friend.

That's Brilliant. If It works, I'll let you know. If it doesn't, I'll F'n well let you know.

Nope. Once a month, I put the backpack blower on and give it all a good dusting.

Grouse and English Setter paraphernalia, upland hunting books, statues, etc.
Upland hunting is my thing, and haven't been buying guns but sold a few lately.

Gun company catalogs, posters, Fox Play Guns, A.H. Fox fishing reels, A.H. Fox Very Flare Pistols, vintage boxes of 3-inch 20-gauge shells and working on a collection of all the various boxes of the blue & yellow Western Super-X boxes (the style used from 1940 to 1960).

You left out knowledge Dave. You've been collecting that for a long time.:bowdown:

Books, books, and more books about firearms history, grouse and woodcock, waterfowl, gun dogs, and British shooting and game birds. With muzzleloaders tossed in.

I also accumulated various beer mugs and steins from travels during my Navy days.