Collecting things other then comics.

[Dr Chaos]

Other than comics?

[rjpb]

Here are scans of some of my 1954 Blue Ribbon CFL cards:

 

 

 

 

 

The cards were included in with large Blue Ribbon chocolate bars retailing for a dime or more back in 1954. As a result, there were relatively few issued and trying to find the cards today in nice condition is extremely difficult. I've been pecking away at trying to complete the eighty card set for almost twenty years.

 

 

That is seriously esoteric. I know next to nothing about Canadian Football, but find this kind of oddball stuff very cool. Was that the only year for CFL cards?

[rjpb]

Nothing quite like having an old Chevy truck, 3-O-T-tree, no power anything, and having the points get wet so you have to keep the revs up so it won't stall, and then one day having the clutch-cable snap on a rainy day, so stopping for red lights became a grinding-of-gears affair.

 

I remember when I could fix my own car... *contented sigh*

 

 

 

-slym

 

Years ago I had a '59 Apache with three on the tree, a starter button and a worn out emergency brake. It was always fun starting that thing on a hill.

[Rip]

I collect way too much stuff. But one of my latest is collecting the Topps Alien bubble gum cards from 1979.

 

Right now I have the highest graded set of the stickers and the cards.

(Including the variants)

 

Always loved the movie. It was one of the first movies to really get me into horror movies along with Halloween and Friday the 13th.

 

Here are pics of the cards.

 

http://www.psacard.com/PSASetRegistry/alltimeset.aspx?s=136113

http://www.psacard.com/PSASetRegistry/alltimeset.aspx?s=138478

 

[BitterOldMan]

I collect way too much stuff. But one of my latest is collecting the Topps Alien bubble gum cards from 1979.

 

Right now I have the highest graded set of the stickers and the cards.

(Including the variants)

 

Always loved the movie. It was one of the first movies to really get me into horror movies along with Halloween and Friday the 13th.

 

Here are pics of the cards.

 

http://www.psacard.com/PSASetRegistry/alltimeset.aspx?s=136113

http://www.psacard.com/PSASetRegistry/alltimeset.aspx?s=138478

 

PSA 10 cards

Alien is easily one of the greatest science fiction/horror movies of all time. I saw it twice when it originally came out.

[B-Smooth]

I collect Haunted mansion pins and other stuff related. This is the

O'pin house ruby set. Each pin is limited to 45 pins. They were randomly inserted into boxes that only invited guests got that night. No sets were sold. They sell anywhere from $1500-3000.

I got this "game used", complete maid costume from the theme park ride for my wife. She was flippin'.

[Hepcat]

Awww, no more Corral for Hepcat

 

Stu(pidman) strikes again.

 

[Hepcat]

That is seriously esoteric. I know next to nothing about Canadian Football, but find this kind of oddball stuff very cool. Was that the only year for CFL cards?

 

Far from it! Here's a list of CFL sets that I'd call "vintage":

 

1952 Parkhurst

1954 Blue Ribbon

1956 Parkhurst

1956 Shredded Wheat

1958 Topps

1959 Topps

1959 Wheaties

1960 Topps

1961 Topps

1962 Topps

1962 Post Cereal

1963 Topps

1963 Post Cereal

1963 Humpty Dumpty/Krun-Chee/Nalleys/Hunters Coins

1964 Topps

1964 Nalleys Coins

1965 Topps

1965 Coke/Sprite Caps

1968 O-Pee-Chee

1970 O-Pee-Chee

1971 O-Pee-Chee

1972 O-Pee-Chee

 

My 1959 Topps CFL cards are among my most prized collectibles since they were the first cards I ever collected as a kid. Here are some scans from my set:

 

 

 

 

I have a vague memory of getting them in this first wrapper here although some were evidently also distributed in this second wrapper which Topps had used previously for the 1958 NFL cards:

 

 

 

The following year I initially collected only the Winnipeg Blue Bombers but then my best buddy turned over his small stack of 1960 Topps CFL cards to me. My third grade teacher Miss S. soon confiscated the stack when she caught me looking at the cards in class but she gave them back to me a week or so later. Here are scans from my current set:

 

 

 

 

I really don't know what happened to these or any of the cards I collected early on as a kid but I suspect that my mother threw them out when I lost interest in them and left them lying around the house somewhere. That doesn't happen anymore since my cards are now all carefully and neatly catalogued in plastic sheets and binders.

 

There have been lots more modern issues as well of which my favourite are the 2003 Pacific and 2004 Pacific and Atomic sets.

 

[ft88]

I've been driving around this 1966 Chevy Impala this year. My brother and I have owned it for over 20 years. Love Nostalgia

 

[Monstro]

Sweet ride, though your daugther doesn't seem to pleased about it. Ha

[Bronty]

Great CFL cards! I've never seen those before. Very nice

[Yoshi]

Transformers.

 

I have been collecting G1 Transformer comics for years. I am always trying to add to my collection or improve it. I even like having beat up copies of the comic book to let people read or flip through. One day, I hope to have a spinner rack that I might load up with these well loved issues so friends and guests can view them.

 

Transformers comics are my main hobby, but I also collect other Transformers items. I would love to have unopened G1 Transformers toys. Prime, Megatron and soundwave would be my big three to get. I have collected a few of the MP toys of G1 characters. I even have an old metal 80s Transformers lunchbox in near mint condition.

 

I am just a fan of comics, cartoon and toys. Feel free to PM me if anyone wants to chat up about this stuff.

[Dick Pontoon]

That's great Ed! (thumbs u I'm more of a Mopar guy, but anything that old these days is a-okay in my book.

[Dr. Balls]

I've been driving around this 1966 Chevy Impala this year. My brother and I have owned it for over 20 years. Love Nostalgia

 

 

Daily drivers

[retrothecollector]

Great thread!! I collect a bunch of cool stuff

 

Vintage & Modern Star Wars loose C7-C9 Action Figures

 

Old Zippo lighters and flint Have a really old vintage flint lighter from Hawaii

 

My wife and I both collect Vinyl records she's into Old 70s'-80's Punk bands you've probably never heard of mostly from Germany and Overseas. Just found out they grade on the same scale as comics

 

Transformers any Generation vintage to modern

 

Kid Robot Dunnys/Vinyl Figures

 

Animal skulls from Necromance Hollywood California wicked awesome store

 

Guitar Picks from bands I've seen

[Mayor006]

Check that 1971 O-pee-chee set for a certain Joe Theisman if I remember correctly. It's probably worth everything else combined if it's in great shape.

[Erndog]

I collected hockey cards forever but lost any passion I had for it, when I realized it was basically like flushing money down the toilet every time a card showed up in my mail box. Not to mention the redundancy in the hobby (seriously, the same cards are produced over and over and over) and a lightbulb went off in my head.

 

Anyways....

 

I started collecting blu rays of horror movies recently. Everything from the current hollywood stuff to the old school horror movies and B horrors. Whatever I can find. It's been quite fun and not very costly (in comparison to comics).

[Hepcat]

Check that 1971 O-pee-chee set for a certain Joe Theisman if I remember correctly. It's probably worth everything else combined if it's in great shape.

 

The 1971 OPC CFL cards are not that tough to find but just like the OPC hockey cards they were cut with a dull butter knife. Trying to determine whether a card is NM/MT is therefore enough to drive a fellow crazy.

 

[Hepcat]

Here are scans of my two unbroken sheets of the 1962 Post Cereal baseball cards that were included inside boxes of Sugar Crisp:

 

 

 

And here are scans of all five of the unbroken sheets of the 1962 Post Cereal CFL cards that were included inside boxes of Sugar Crisp:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[F For Fake]

Something about that period of American history, when even the 20-somethings looked like they were in their 50's.