Coins, Millitary, musical instruments, stamps, fossils&minerals.
I just really realised that I basicly have my own museum of interesting things that I have found/inherited/bought over the years. Just wondering if you would like to see some of my 'curiosities'
I would start with my coin collection as I know many people here hail from the mythical land of murica, and probably do not know much about British coins (old&new)
Just wondering if any of you guys were interested.
-PlanesOfOld
I have been collecting for only a couple of years @PlanesOfOld
@Hayhayjam664 the numbers at a guess go into the thousands since i collect most of them myself i have some beautiful things that i have purchased too.
How many rock/minerals/gems do you have I have about 200
@PlanesOfOld I have a small rock/fossil collection, it would be much bigger if I room for more.
If a mechanical watch from 1680 still tells time perfectly then a mechanical watch will most likely never stop ticking... This is my watch and clock philosophy @EliteIndustries1
I've got a pocket watch ;) i refuse to wear a digital watch, or a Quartz watch for that matter, the only watches I wear are mechanical. @EliteIndustries1
Millitary stuff is not very extensive, as most is at my grandparents house and the medals my family members have won aren't in my possession. But the stuff I do have is probably stuff all you Mercians have seen before (bullets) there is a casing from the Spanish civil war somewhere (I may have misplaced it somewhere) and I also have some WW1 shell pieces that are all in nice condition, but by far my most prised military possession is a piece of original oak from HMS victory due to the trees being about 100-200 years old when cut, the wood is most likely 400 years old, plus has seen the greatest naval battle in history.
If I talked about fossils I'd be here all day, as I'm a keen collector and hunter but I specalise in collecting marine, and plant fossils and only have a few things in the way of land animals. TBH I'm running out of space, my house if full of rocks lol... The curse of a geologist.
What kind of cool military stuff and fossils do you have?