i Collect

"Hi everybody. My name is Gerald and I Collect."

Most of us have a tendency to collect, whether it is music as MP3 downloads, on CDs or even vintage vinyl. Some collecting is just by cluttering, in keeping or hanging onto things that where a good idea at the time or past interests from stamp collecting, bubble gum cards, badges, coins to vintage cars.

Among these pages I will be looking into my own former collections and household clutter and see what was cool and which may even hold its interest and have merit beyond its time. With access to auction sites and classified ads from around the world some interesting equipment, paraphernalia, bric-a-brac and objet d'art are easily obtainable, and if not too heavy cheap enough to have posted internationally, making collecting as easy as online shopping for new products.

Some pages are stubs, place holders until I manage to add content.

My former collections include

• audio files - dramas from the BBC

• Bags - more notes on picking a backpack and an every day carry backpack
  Wallets

• bicycles

  • Holdsworthy,

  • E.G.Bates,

  • Mobiky

• Books (check out evaluations at http://biblion.co.uk)

• Cards

  • Brook Bond Tea Cards

  • cigarettes cards

  • sweets cards

• Coins

  • foreign coins, mostly past down

  • British coins

• Calculators and slide rulers

  • British Thornton  10" Slide Rule (1967) No. P271 LOG LOG

  • Casio

• cameras - particularly subminiature

• cassettes - compiled from the records, particularly singles

• computers

  • The Grundy NewBrain

  • The PC

  • NeXTstep

  • Nokia N800

  • Sony Picturebook and laptops

  • computer icons

  • screen savers

  • Tablets

• Furniture

  • Cado designer living room units

  • Parker Knolls

• hi-fi

  • Experiment into Surround Sound with JR149, Meridian G55, D600, B&W PV1, Bose Roommates

  • What would a classic piece of Hi-Fi look like in the future?

  • Blaupunkt Frankfurt/ Olso SM21 car hi-fi

  • Bose Roomate (2003)

  • Bowes and Wilkins PV1 sub woofer (2009)

  • Cambridge Audio P80 amplifier & T55 tuner (1975-79)

  • Encore LP cabinet

  • Linn Sondek LP12D (1991)

  • Jim Rogers JR149 speakers (1977)

  • Meridian Audio

    • Meridian 101B/104 and M1 Mk II speakers (1981)

    • Meridian MCA (1983)

    • Meridian D600 speaker

    • Meridian M60C centre speaker

    • Meridian G-series G55 5 channel power amplifier (2006)

  • Pioneer

    • Pioneer LP12D turntable

  • Sony

    • Walkman Pro WM-D6C (1988)

    • Sony D-350 portable CD player (1991)

    • Sony ICF-SW1Cshort wave radio with stereo FM, MW and LW (1989)

  • Transcriptor Skeleton Turntable, {Round Table} (1977)

  • Uher

    • Miniline VG840, EG740, Z140, Z141 (1982)

    • CR240 portable cassette deck (1978)

    • CR160 portable cassette deck (1981)

    • 4400 Report Monitor Reel to Reel

  • Visonik David 5001 (1990)

• Kitchen

  • Prestige - rose wood handle kitchen utensils (1976)

  • Pyrex - Chelsea dinner set (1976)

  • Russell Hobbs Wedgewood ceramic percolator and milk warmer

  • Sawa 2000 deluxe - biscuit and icing gadget  / cookie press (1981)

  • Viners - Love Story cutlery set (1976)

• Pens and drawing instruments

  • fountain pens,

  • Rotring drawing pens and compasses

  • Reifler compass

  • Thornton set square

• records - vinyl LPs and 7" singles (More Music (www.moremusic.co.uk) to help you offload unwanted albums or Gemm (www.gemm.com) to sell. Many prices are wildly over-optimistic, take a median valuation.)

• Stamps - British, Commonwealth, European, British and Gibraltar {The Ten O'Clock Show (www.thetenoclockshow.co.uk), which also deals in cigarette cards, banknotes and stamps. Its online guide to the value of UK postage stamps is just about the best there is.}

• Toys (The history, indicative values and collector networks for such childhood treasures at World Collectors Net (www.worldcollectorsnet.com).

  • Britain's Farm animals and zoo animals

  • Corgi cars

  • Tri-ang model railway

• video cameras

  • Sony VC-90,

  • Sony VCC5000,

  • Sony DCR-PC100E, 

  • Sony HDR-HC7E

  • JVC GR-DV1E

• video tapes - off air and home movies

• Wallets commercial and DIY cork wallets

Flog-it - Cambridge 2006

Last Updated on 5th September 2022