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[Courageous Cat]

On 11/22/2020 at 2:10 AM, Courageous Cat said:

War of 1812 Uniforms and relics. Comics and War!! 

(yes, they are  the real McCoy)

 

 

added another earlier in the year and got a nice little write up on it https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/print-edition/2022/march/2534/feature/two-quality-collections-stand-to-attention-at-thomas-del-mar-auction/

at present this is the only known example. Yes, even in this market i am still adding to my GA collection as well

Edited April 27, 2022 by Courageous Cat

[Straw-Man]

On 4/26/2022 at 3:03 PM, PDGray said:

Wow, I don't even know where to start.

Obviously, I collect comics - probably 8-10,000 if I were to guess.

I have a large number of celebrity autographs.

I have some movie props - nothing too terribly noteworthy.

I have a few cars.

I have a growing collection of watches.

I have a bunch of 1/18 scale die cast cars.

I have probably 5,000 DVD/Blu-Ray movies

I could probably keep going for a while, but will leave it at that.

 

PDG

same here!

[Yorick]

On 4/27/2022 at 11:41 AM, 143ksk said:

Absolutely adorable.  Is that a White Tree Frog?

[PDGray]

On 4/27/2022 at 1:41 PM, 143ksk said:

Thanks for posting the watches🙂

Here are a few of my favorites 

Absolutely fantastic!!!  I want an Explorer, but am thinking I want a Pepsi GMT next.  The Speedy is on my want list too, but the others are absolutely fantastic!!  

 

On 4/27/2022 at 2:18 PM, Timely said:

Got a lot in common with my dad. He’s got a watch collection, car collection, and did have a red 308 years back. Here he is in one of his two Lamborghini’s at a car show. This one is a ‘72 Miura SV.  

That Miura is a jaw-dropper!!  What an epic car!!!

 

On 4/27/2022 at 2:20 PM, pmpknface said:

Nice watches! This was my dad's Omega that he got in Switzerland when he was in the army. He gave it to me when I graduated from college. He wore it every day, I had to take it off for the picture. It's meant to be worn with the face under your wrist, s notice where the 12 is. It's been fixed a few times, but the band is original. 

I have NEVER seen that one before!!  It is so unusual - I love it!!

 

On 4/27/2022 at 2:33 PM, Robot Man said:

These are about as fancy as my watches get...

Holy WOW!!!  Great collection!!

 

PDG

 

 

[piper]

On 4/27/2022 at 5:43 AM, PDGray said:

Here are a few of my favorite watches and my favorite car- I might can take some other photos of the other stuff later if someone likes.  The first is my 2021 Rolex Cosmograph Daytona 116503, the next is my 1990 Rolex Submariner-Date, the third is my 1961 Rolex Oyster Perpetual (it still has the original strap), then my 1961 Omega Seamaster.  Then my non-watch photo - my 1985 Ferrari 308 GTSi Quattrovalvole.

 

PDG
 

 

Love the Vintage Seamaster.

[PDGray]

On 4/27/2022 at 2:38 PM, EastEnd1 said:

Fun topic... I also collect vintage Hollywood photos.  This is one of my favorite Marilyn Monroe shots... she's very young here, issued in 1950 for her first significant role in "All About Eve" (about three years before she really broke out)...

 

I don't have many vintage photos, although I have some autographs.  This is a stunning photo - it almost doesn't even look like her.

 

On 4/27/2022 at 3:21 PM, Courageous Cat said:

added another earlier in the year and got a nice little write up on it https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/print-edition/2022/march/2534/feature/two-quality-collections-stand-to-attention-at-thomas-del-mar-auction/

at present this is the only known example. Yes, even in this market i am still adding to my GA collection as well

It's astonishing that that even exists!! 

PDG

[piper]

On 4/27/2022 at 12:41 PM, 143ksk said:

Thanks for posting the watches🙂

Here are a few of my favorites 

I got my Seamaster 300p but still looking for a Speedy.  I'm also looking at a cheap Flieger from Laco.

[pmpknface]

On 4/27/2022 at 5:09 PM, PDGray said:

I have NEVER seen that one before!!  It is so unusual - I love it!!

 

PDG

 

 

My dad tole me it's kind of a driving watch.  When you are driving and have your hands on the wheel you turn your wrist up, and then the 12 is in the right place.  Kinda neat!  

[PDGray]

On 4/27/2022 at 3:38 PM, Straw-Man said:

same here!

Although we all here have a love of comic books and old, expensive paper I do find it amazing to see how much so many of us have in common.  

 

On 4/27/2022 at 4:10 PM, piper said:

Love the Vintage Seamaster.

That has been sent out for repair.  It was running slower and slower, so I had my local jeweler send it to Omega who wanted to send it back to Switzerland to repair it.  So, it is off to another repair shop to see if it can be repaired.  I hope it can, but I don't want to sink a lot of money into it because its just not worth all that much.  I will see what they come back with.

PDG

[pmpknface]

See?  Also, the button to the left resets the second hand, so it's kind of a stopwatch.  

Edited April 27, 2022 by pmpknface

[143ksk]

On 4/27/2022 at 3:53 PM, Yorick said:

Absolutely adorable.  Is that a White Tree Frog?

[PDGray]

On the watch front I have bought quite a few Gruens recently.  It is kind of an under-the-radar brand that was originally in the US, but now has kind of gone defunct if my info is correct.  In fact, I have a 1961 510 which is similar to what Sean Connery wore the first time he spoke the line, "Bond, James Bond."  Mine doesn't have the small seconds though.  I have a few others that are essentially Rolex copies of the Day Date, Datejust, and Explorer II.  I also have a vintage Gruen Curvex, which is an interesting watch, shaped like an extended very narrow Cartier Tank  I am kind of using those Gruens as my "beater" watches so that I don't become a target wearing my Rolexes.  I just like switching it up and having different looks for different days.

PDG

[PDGray]

On 4/27/2022 at 4:14 PM, pmpknface said:

See?  Also, the button to the left resets the second hand, so it's kind of a stopwatch.  

Wow, VERY cool!!!

PDG

[PDGray]

I love that this topic has been bumped to let us talk/chat about all these different cool things!!

 

PDG

[EastEnd1]

On 4/27/2022 at 5:12 PM, PDGray said:

I don't have many vintage photos, although I have some autographs.  This is a stunning photo - it almost doesn't even look like her.

Thank you... I love the early Monroe photos... to me they are Marilyn at her most beautiful... the Hollywood machine hasn't quite gotten their claws into her yet and there's more of an innocence to them.  Three years later, when she broke out in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and her nude Tom Kelley calendar came to light, her photos became more sexualized.  This one's from 1953, the year of her break out...

 

 

 

[EastEnd1]

Here's one of Marilyn's predecessor Hollywood blonde bombshells and also one of my favorites, Veronica Lake.  Unlike Marilyn who was known for more comedic roles, Lake often played the classic femme fatale in noir films and popularized the "peek-a-boo" hairstyle.  The Kim Basinger character in "LA Confidential" was based on Lake.  One little tidbit is that despite her glamorous persona and eye-catching presence, Lake was only 4'11" and had to be carefully cast with leading men... 5'6" Alan Ladd was a favorite... 

 

[Lancia Stratos]

Vintage sports cards and skateboards

I just started collecting comics a few months ago. Bought a CGC first issue Beavis & Butthead and was hooked. Immediately switched to golden and silver age stuff

[PDGray]

On 4/27/2022 at 4:41 PM, EastEnd1 said:

Thank you... I love the early Monroe photos... to me they are Marilyn at her most beautiful... the Hollywood machine hasn't quite gotten their claws into her yet and there's more of an innocence to them.  Three years later, when she broke out in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and her nude Tom Kelley calendar came to light, her photos became more sexualized.  This one's from 1953, the year of her break out...

 

 

 

While she was an amazing looker she almost looks drugged out with her eyes like that.  I know the photo well and know she was trying to look seductive, but there is that bit in the back of my brain...

PDG

[PDGray]

On 4/27/2022 at 5:10 PM, EastEnd1 said:

Here's one of Marilyn's predecessor Hollywood blonde bombshells and also one of my favorites, Veronica Lake.  Unlike Marilyn who was known for more comedic roles, Lake often played the classic femme fatale in noir films and popularized the "peek-a-boo" hairstyle.  The Kim Basinger character in "LA Confidential" was based on Lake.  One little tidbit is that despite her glamorous persona and eye-catching presence, Lake was only 4'11" and had to be carefully cast with leading men... 5'6" Alan Ladd was a favorite... 

 

I hadn't connected Basinger with Veronika Lake, but now I can't unsee it - that's an amazing bit of knowledge to have, not that its a bad thing at all. I also had no idea she was 4'11"!!  I also didn't realize Alan Ladd was only 5'6" either.  I would have felt like a giant around them, even as short as I am!!

PDG

[PDGray]

On 4/27/2022 at 6:35 PM, Lancia Stratos said:

Vintage sports cards and skateboards

I just started collecting comics a few months ago. Bought a CGC first issue Beavis & Butthead and was hooked. Immediately switched to golden and silver age stuff

Absolutely LOVE the screen name!!!

Welcome to the world of comic books!!  Thats an amazing collection of cards!  I have about 30,000 sports cards but nothing like those!!

PDG