The Kiwi Farms Collectible Thread - Sperg to your heart's content about Legos, and not lego things

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I've built up quite a few collections since I was a kid. I still have all my rocks and crystals displayed and my dice in a special die-shaped box. I still add on to my bottle cap collection though I'm more dicerning about what I pick up. More recently I started collecting animal bones. These are all the skulls I have so far (minus a rat which I have cleaning right now) Two raccoons, a cat, two tree squirrels, a ground squirrel, a rabbit, and some mice. I'm actually not sure what the really tiny one is.
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@MerriedxReldnahc tips on how you find them? I've been trying to get my foot in the door with bone collecting.

My most recent collection is Disney trading pins. I haven't been to Disneyland in a while so I buy them at conventions instead.
 
Kurosaki Ichigo said:
@MerriedxReldnahc tips on how you find them? I've been trying to get my foot in the door with bone collecting.

My most recent collection is Disney trading pins. I haven't been to Disneyland in a while so I buy them at conventions instead.
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Mostly I've been lucky in finding them. The raccoons were near a highway so most likely got hit by a car. The squirrels and mice were mostly around groves of trees that I've seen owls in and I've found some pellets around there too. Mostly you have to keep an eye on where certain animals congregate or watch where birds of prey are.
 
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One of my fur babies brought me a mouse, so I'm working on cleaning it. Here's the teeny tiny skull. It got broken in a few places so I had to very carefully glue it back together.
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More metal detecting/mudlarking stuff:
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The tubelike things at the top are clay pipe stems dating from anywhere between the 17th and 19th centuries. On the top left one you can see the base of the pipe, while the one on the bottom left is decorated with "M O [blank] ARTIN" on one side and "KING'S BENCH" on the other, the King's Bench being a court that was dissolved in 1875. On the next level there's pottery — Tudor/Stuart on the left and medieval on the right. The coins, from left to right, are two halfpennies (George V and George VI), a threepenny bit (George VI), two farthings (Edward VII and George VI, three George V pennies and another George VI halfpenny.
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I've been looking into glass cabinets for some of the figures and figure display cases for some of the more hard to find or figures that easily degrade with time (such as some of MMC figures)
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There's a cabinet made by Ikea called a Detolf, and they're pretty good for displaying stuff; you can rig up lights inside them as well. I've got two for my figure collection.
 
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More metal detecting/mudlarking stuff:
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The tubelike things at the top are clay pipe stems dating from anywhere between the 17th and 19th centuries. On the top left one you can see the base of the pipe, while the one on the bottom left is decorated with "M O [blank] ARTIN" on one side and "KING'S BENCH" on the other, the King's Bench being a court that was dissolved in 1875. On the next level there's pottery — Tudor/Stuart on the left and medieval on the right. The coins, from left to right, are two halfpennies (George V and George VI), a threepenny bit (George VI), two farthings (Edward VII and George VI, three George V pennies and another George VI halfpenny.

There's a cabinet made by Ikea called a Detolf, and they're pretty good for displaying stuff; you can rig up lights inside them as well. I've got two for my figure collection.
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I've seen those, but sadly I have a cat and he enjoys rubbing against everything or rolling around.
 
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I collect figures. They've been getting pricey so I just stick to characters I really like and well made.

I also collect illustration books and TCG cards I don't really play like MtG (I can never find anyone to play with anyway).
 
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John Titor said:
I collect figures. They've been getting pricey so I just stick to characters I really like and well made.

I also collect illustration books and TCG cards I don't really play like MtG (I can never find anyone to play with anyway).
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I started out with figures, still have some of them, but I moved on to statues, mostly Sideshow.
 
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