Judging by the rust around the top and bottom ring I'd say steel.Originally Posted by Metalbestos
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Judging by the rust around the top and bottom ring I'd say steel.
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Video game ninja
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There you go making sense again , thought it may have been dirt .
Buying ewaste and video games !
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I collect traps! Any kind or condition, wall hangers or users. My favorites of course are the big old Newhouses!
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What the heck are these? Pics maybe?
wall hangers or users. My favorites of course are the big old Newhouses!
1880's Bear Trap Sells for $3,491
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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pawpaw- I dig those knob people. Might have to add one to my collections.
Yunkman- Those crt monitors are enjoying the shade behind my bro's metal "barn". I'll work on them after a while. You want to dump more off up here, there is certainly room...
When we built this house in 2008 (not the best year to be in the buying & selling houses status but we dodged a bullet and got our older one sold), I carved out my personal office out of the larger downstairs family room. The wifey said that all my non-clothes, non-garage stuff had to fit into this 13x8 foot room. Well, that hasn't quite happened. Much of the utility room is mine and stuff regularly spills out into the family room, especially ebay listing nights but all in all, the office is pretty filled up. Organization is not one of my strong skills so its pretty chaotic to most viewers. But its generally functional for me.
A few pixs of the less wiped out areas with some of my stuff I've "collected". Most has come from garage sales and thrift stores and most within the past 6 years or so, although the taxidermy stuff (which I did) is older and the breaching marlin is from Mexico when we went on our honeymoon so nearly 20 years.
The wood duck and squirrel mount was one of the earlier efforts and is actually pretty crappy. You'd never actually see a drake woodie in a tree nest and squirrel is pretty bad when viewed full on but at this angle maybe not so bad. The acorn in its mouth actually was there when I shot it. Sort of rare for around here because we don't have a lot of oaks except a few in the river hills. That mount is 25+ years old.
I'm not really into old carved wooden duck decoys but have found some vintage manufactured and homemade foam or mache ones. The one is the middle is purely decorative using pieces of pine cones and various grains and seeds. The painted buffalo shoulder blades are sort of cool but I can't sell them on ebay as Native American art ( I tried listing them) because I don't have documentation that the signed author is an actual tribal member (some federal law or something). But for $3 they're cool and so they can sit there until whenever.
No one appreciated my mink and frog/turtle mount on ebay. The mink is not the best mount and the frogs/turtles are probably too artificial (and it was a bulky shipping deal) so it too can sit until whenever. Considering the price of wild mink the past few years, any others I catch will probably end up mounted on a form but without the frogs and turtles.
If I ever get my table and shelves behind me cleared off, I'll show you my battle fleet I built in early high school (I think the main battle cruiser would probably have rolled over in real life if it ever had done a broadside because the beam of the ship is too narrow but modeling doesn't actually have to be real...).
Last edited by DakotaRog; 04-04-2015 at 11:32 PM.
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The Silver Bar cans were steel. The one pictured is the one in the best condition. It was ugly in the back, but the front was near perfect. The second two were the reverse of the first, they were pretty good in the back but the front was very corroded and the graphics were dim. I figured they were bought just to have an example in their collection. The last one was pretty good all the way around but the front was not the display quality of the first can. I had no idea when i bought them what I was buying, I figured for a dollar, I would take a chance on six beer cans. The others in the pick were common and I took them to the yard.
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I guess I do not "collect" anything specific. I collect things I like. I used to collect stamps and coins, but they were as a child and never worth much. The stamps are pretty decent, but only worth maybe a few hundred dollars.
I guess I could say I collect antiques and old things. I don't have much room, but I like the unique and unusual I find at garage sales. My favorite piece I found disassembled in a box and asked "How much?" and the gentleman said "Free." It is a brass hanging lamp. The frosted globes are roughly seven inches in diameter and the fingers around the globes are brass. Even the chain is brass. I love the lamp and sit in its' light now as I type.
My newest acquisition is an antique corner shelf. It was (is) also in pieces. I am currently working on it stripping the old finish off, replacing missing pieces, and I will be refinishing the shelf. I think it is beautiful! I have never seen anything like it and I have sen alot of antiques. Here is a picture of the bottom two shelves stripped of the old finish...
Once assembled, the shelf will stand about five foot. I will post a pic when finished.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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Neat stuff!! That brass hanging lamp is the cat's meow
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Thanks, Dak. That is one of my very favorite finds.Neat stuff!! That brass hanging lamp is the cat's meow
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Don't really collect anything in particular...Anything that catches the eye or is comfy is welcome but eventually is shown the door to make room for others.
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Another beer can collector here. Been at it since I was seven years old. At my age you can imagine how many have found a home and been saved from scrap.
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t00nces2, the hanging lamp is awesome.
Funny, after I started this thread I actually found "collectables" I found some 78 rpm records hockey cards and old books today during a cleanout. Maybe I should start a thread on gold bars
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Empty imported beer bottles, lighters, troll dolls, coins, and lint from the dryer (use as a fire starter)!
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cb/ham radios/scanners, baseball cards, comic books, magazines and recently warhammer 40k stuff.
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I try to get those little "WARRANTY VOID" and "DANGER" type stickers in electronics and stick them on my work bench and toolbox. The other day I was looking at my work bench in the basement and I've voided a lot of warranty's.
Between scrapping and side jobs the collection is pretty much whatever I don't want to sell just yet. Overloaded with furniture right now, mostly antique and primitive. I keep telling my wife "I'm not buying any more furniture", but this weekend (of course) I came home with an old primitive style table and a old school desk. I keep trying to sell of the large items and concentrate on smaller, higher value items.
I only buy stuff that I think I can resell so there is no real rhyme or reason to the accumulation as it stands. I don't search out specific things but end up keeping what I like. Trunks, Coca Cola, tools, art, ceramics, midcentury and earlier appliances, old TV memorabilia, etc.
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I have collected coins since I was a kid, always liked antiques, and now I am collecting mid century modern stuff. My wife collects Pyrex. One thing that pisses me off is the amount of mid century items I scrapped before I knew what it was worth and figured out that I liked the way it looks. If any of you find any of that old funny looking furniture from the 50s 60s and 70s check it out before you scrap it, or pm me a pic of it, if it is worth something I will let you know what it is worth.
My fortune cookie said:
You discover treasures where others see nothing unusual.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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I collect beer advertising trays from the 1930's to the 70's. I love the graphics and learning the history of all the now out of business breweries from around the country. There are some really cool ones out there. I don't run into them scrapping, but flea markets, yard sales, and Craigslist are good places to look.
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