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.

My former collections include

• audio files - dramas

• bicycles

  • Holdsworthy,

  • E.G.Bates,

  • Mobiky

• 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

  • computer icons

  • screen savers

• hi-fi

  • Blaupunkt Frankfurt/ Olso SM21 car hi-fi

  • Bose Roomate

  • Cambridge P60 & T55

  • Linn Sondek LP12D

  • Jim Rodgers JR149 speakers

  • Meridian Audio

    • Meridian 101B/104 and M1 Mk II speakers

    • Meridian MCA

    • Meridian G-series

  • Sony

    • Walkman Pro WM-D6C

    • Sony D-350 portable CD player

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

  • Transcriptor Skeleton Turntable, {Round Table}

  • Uher

    • Miniline VG840, EG740, Z140, 141

    • CR240 portable cassette deck

    • CR160 portable cassette deck

  • Visonik David 5001

• Pens and drawing instruments

  • fountain pens,

  • Rotring drawing pens and compasses

  • Reifler compass

  • Thornton set square

• records - vinyl LPs and 7" singles

• Stamps - British, Commonwealth, European, British and Gibraltar

• Toys

  • 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

Flog-it - Cambridge 2006

Last Updated on 5th February 2010