Coin collecting is my main hobby. But I also like bird watching, learning about trees, taking photos around town or in local parks, and watching movies. I also read a lot about politics and other non-fiction subjects, but I no longer discuss politics. I just like to know what's going in that regard. I used to read a lot more than I do now, and I take much longer to read a book than I used to. I have been on the same book for 2 months now. I plan on finishing by the end of next week.
I used to collect all sorts of things during my childhood days (e.g., stamps, banknotes, comic books, rocks, etc.), but now I am a bit more focused. I collect a lot of historical artifacts, coins, banknotes, manuscripts to name a few.
I have been working on 2 different projects much longer than I have been doing coin collecting. I have given up stamp collecting and travel but I am trying to combine my interest in both by making a list of one specific destination in every stamp issuing entity listed in the major stamp catalogs of the world. It isn't as easy as you think. Mostly I try to list a capital city for each jurisdiction under the current name but sources are not always clear on what the capital was or its current name. So I work for a while and get frustrated and stop for a while.
Last year I found the website of a Dutch man who was doing a great job on providing information. But just as he started working on European countries, he died of cancer. The website was a personal project of his and the family has no plans to expand it.
The second interest is watching obscure movies of all kinds except animated. I think I may have matched Kim Jong-Il in the number of movies seen. And if you are interested, the worst movie I have ever seen is "Jesus Christ, Serial Rapist." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438883/combined by director Bill Zebub http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1754496/reference
I used to collect yugioh cards and stamps. Now I collect coins, play the piano, enjoy traveling, enjoy bird keeping and fish keeping, and do gardening during the summer.
Citação: "Coinman48"I have been working on 2 different projects much longer than I have been doing coin collecting. I have given up stamp collecting and travel but I am trying to combine my interest in both by making a list of one specific destination in every stamp issuing entity listed in the major stamp catalogs of the world. It isn't as easy as you think. Mostly I try to list a capital city for each jurisdiction under the current name but sources are not always clear on what the capital was or its current name. So I work for a while and get frustrated and stop for a while.
Last year I found the website of a Dutch man who was doing a great job on providing information. But just as he started working on European countries, he died of cancer. The website was a personal project of his and the family has no plans to expand it.
The second interest is watching obscure movies of all kinds except animated. I think I may have matched Kim Jong-Il in the number of movies seen. And if you are interested, the worst movie I have ever seen is "Jesus Christ, Serial Rapist." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438883/combined by director Bill Zebub http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1754496/reference
Will
Citação: "Hello There"I used to collect yugioh cards and stamps. Now I collect coins, play the piano, enjoy traveling, enjoy bird keeping and fish keeping, and do gardening during the summer.
"I used to collect yugioh cards..." I never heard of them. I looked them up; they look like Japanese anime.
Citação: "Hello There"I used to collect yugioh cards and stamps. Now I collect coins, play the piano, enjoy traveling, enjoy bird keeping and fish keeping, and do gardening during the summer.
"I used to collect yugioh cards..." I never heard of them. I looked them up; they look like Japanese anime.
yes, it is Japanese, although they come in English. It's a pretty popular game but I think I outgrew it. I still have the cards though.
I play Badminton and I play and coach tennis, I used to play rep tennis in my younger days before I got fat and lazy. I get to as many live games of cricket as I can and I love reading, hunting and tramping (tramping is known as hiking for those of you not from New Zealand) I'm getting the kids into it too. Here's my boys and lovely wife up in the mountains on our last trip
Oh, and my latest love is frisbee golf. I helped put in the course that opened up in my city a year or so ago and I've been playing that pretty regularly.
Like some others, I used to do a lot of things that I don't do anymore!
These days, most of my time is taken up with my coin collection and working on the catalogue!
@Jarcek, if you enjoy photographing churches, you should come visit us, we have the world's oldest wooden church just 15 minutes away http://www.greenstedchurch.org.uk/
Just because you can't see it ... doesn't mean it isn't there - Anon.
Besides collecting coins, which is my main collecting hobby, I collect a few banknotes,German medals and decorations and brass gun shells.
Outside of collecting, I am a qualified football referee, and do plenty of games throughout a season. I also like travelling, so, like a few of you have already stated, photography is a great pass time.
This year we are off on a coach tour of the Balkans. 15 days of pure pleasure. Might even find a coin shop or two
I love to collect coins but my true passions lie outdoors.
Hunting Fishing and although I'm not one of the gun nuts my time in the military definitely left me with a love for Shooting anything and everything that goes bang!
For a few of our members that know me really well you know what my other hobby is I wonder how many others out there share it?
Exploring old Indian ruins in the U.S. (Arizona, New Mexico)Metal detecting, Rocks,Fossils and Minerals. Old Postcards, Bow hunting deer, Fishing, Hiking with my dog and granddaughter.
Scavenging for architectural Elements. At 1 time I had over 3,000 door knobs. 300 of them different.
Iron roof peak Decorations from Victorian era.
Author signed childrens books.
Civil war memorabilia.
Driving around the U.S. exploring whatever, when I can afford it.
That's it for List 1.
Oh Yeah, I forgot. What Matt likes to do.
My coin collecting is really in the last 5 years or so - finishing my Canadian books and trying to complete my global birth year set.
But I collected comic books for 30 years (just starting the big job of selling them off now.. if you are interested in the X-Men from the movies, or their spinoffs, I'm your man ).
From when I developed a travel bug during my working on cruise ships for a few years, I started collecting one signature guitar pin from every past/present Hard Rock Cafe in the world (I think that one has also cooled off as well and is headed soon for the eBay listings - I think I have about 180 now..).
Lastly was collecting hockey player autographs on 8x10" glossy photos. Got most of those sold off about 5 years ago..
Does having every Disney and Pixar animated film on DVD count? that was really for having something to watch with the grandchildren in my older age to come...
Coin collecting is my main hobby also, but I used to collect stamps. I still have quite a huge stamp collection and I'm soon starting to get rid of it. I also used to play volleyball, but because of my knees I only play on summertime, outside. Another summertime hobby of mine is geocatching. It is like a treasury hunting with gps, if you are not familiar. You can do that all over the world. In June I will go to Riga, with my daughter to find geocatches from there.
Citação: "darcyrmt"
...Does having every Disney and Pixar animated film on DVD count? that was really for having something to watch with the grandchildren in my older age to come...
Lol, make sure you keep a working DVD player to go along with it. No point in having a collection of DVDs with nothing to play it on. My dad learnt that the hard way with VHS haha
Citação: "Ollisaarinen"Coin collecting is my main hobby also, but I used to collect stamps. I still have quite a huge stamp collection and I'm soon starting to get rid of it. I also used to play volleyball, but because of my knees I only play on summertime, outside. Another summertime hobby of mine is geocatching. It is like a treasury hunting with gps, if you are not familiar. You can do that all over the world. In June I will go to Riga, with my daughter to find geocatches from there.
I don't know if disc golfing can be considered a hobby, but that is what I am into now, besides coin and banknote collecting. It's fun, gets me out of the house for a couple hours and is a pretty good, low-impact workout. Plus I get to hang out with friends each week.
I love collecting. My main collection is coins, but also collect music instruments, stones, shells, fossils, beercaps. Beside collecting I build/repair music instruments, building furniture.
I am a philatelist specialising in DPR Korea (North Korea) stamps. My themes include cult of personality and anti-American, anti-South Korean and anti-Japanese propaganda.
Some of my First Day Covers below:
Period of anti-US joint struggle: June 25th - July 27th
"Captured US spy ship "Pueblo" and its crewmen" (Naenara)
Right: "We'll surely settle with you!" (anti-Japanese) Left: "The US imperialists must not run amuck!"
Right: "Annihilate the US aggressors, sworn enemy of the Korean people!" Left: "Do not forget wolf-like US imperialists!"
Citação: "Jupiter"I am a philatelist specialising in DPR Korea (North Korea) stamps. My themes include cult of personality and anti-American, anti-South Korean and anti-Japanese propaganda.
So, basically everything from DPRK?
Those stamps looks really neat. I don't collect stamps, but I have more than 50 banknotes from DPRK.
Citação: "ngdawa"
So, basically everything from DPRK?
Those stamps looks really neat. I don't collect stamps, but I have more than 50 banknotes from DPRK.
No, not everything. The anti-American sentiment has been toned down in recent years. Mostly anti-Japanese and cult of personality. The stamps look like film posters.
Beside coins and telephone tokens I am used to collect old lawn mowed and garden rototillers.
My master piece is a ride on fails lawn mower, Brott 202. I also completely restored a Suffolk Punch. Since I move out to Madrid I was forced to let my collection at my parents house, but I hope that’s only temporal until I move to a bigger house.
My main hobby is related to Physics, I was a referee of the forum of the main science popularization newspaper in France.
My last research topic is: Why is the Universe globally neutral at any scale ?
Is it because in order to bring out complexity (the anthropic principle) the gravity must necessarily win out over large-scale the electromagnetic force ?
I took this example because it shows the extent of the discoveries that remains to be made in cosmology and especially the incompleteness of the current models of the genesis of the universe.
The question is not trivial because if the amount of protons was a bit different from the amount of electrons, our world would not exist.
We study at the university the mathematical models of creation of quarks, electrons and finally matter, we explain the need for concepts of dark matter, dark energy and other physical oddities but this kind of question is not approached, in theoretical physics it becomes a "postulate" whereas tools of demonstration exist but… give inexplicable results within the framework of the standard model because of the annihilation matter / antimatter.
I explain by simplifying: everything is born from the immeasurable primordial energy of the big bang.
On one hand, the energy creates quarks and then protons and antiprotons which annihilate themselves immediately and there are very few protons left from the start, much less than one percent.
On the other hand, by a very different reaction, the energy creates neutrinos, electrons and anti-electrons which will also annihilate themselves immediately leaving far less than one percent of electrons in place.
At the end of the first second of the Universe, there are about as many protons as electrons in the universe!
It’s not a coincidence, it’s a miracle!
and in physics, we don't like miracles
Well, once this fairly simple observation has been made, we can start the research and then ... it gets a bit more complicated
Citação: "Frenchlover"I took this example because it shows the extent of the discoveries that remains to be made in cosmology and especially the incompleteness of the current models of the genesis of the universe.
The question is not trivial because if the amount of protons was a bit different from the amount of electrons, our world would not exist.
We study at the university the mathematical models of creation of quarks, electrons and finally matter, we explain the need for concepts of dark matter, dark energy and other physical oddities but this kind of question is not approached, in theoretical physics it becomes a "postulate" whereas tools of demonstration exist but… give inexplicable results within the framework of the standard model because of the annihilation matter / antimatter.
I explain by simplifying: everything is born from the immeasurable primordial energy of the big bang.
On one hand, the energy creates quarks and then protons and antiprotons which annihilate themselves immediately and there are very few protons left from the start, much less than one percent.
On the other hand, by a very different reaction, the energy creates neutrinos, electrons and anti-electrons which will also annihilate themselves immediately leaving far less than one percent of electrons in place.
At the end of the first second of the Universe, there are about as many protons as electrons in the universe!
It’s not a coincidence, it’s a miracle!
and in physics, we don't like miracles
Well, once this fairly simple observation has been made, we can start the research and then ... it gets a bit more complicated
It is indeed very intriguing & complex.
My colleague always jokes about earth being an experiment by some naughty aliens
My other hobbies include collecting airline amenity kits, walking, photography, postcards, napkins, old phones, car brochures, cycling and talking to my college friends on Discord.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
I take my telescope and phone and shoot some space💫 here are some of my photos
im doing this for year and hope the pictures will get better and better! click on the photo to see it sharper!
Very nice pictures. How do you connect your phone to the telescope?
Thanks, i have a case that you can attach to telescope, then you will put phone in it set properly so you can see everything that is in the telescope and shoot!
UK “Boys” Comic Annuals, primarily by D.C. Thomson. It's quite an extensive collection of titles, but some of the better known titles are the Beano (Complete run from 1940), Dandy (Complete run from 1939), The Broons & Oor Wullie (Two titles which are published in alternate years, almost complete run from 1939; missing Broons 1953). I also have a good mix of their earlier adventure annuals (at one point, they were publishing 5 titles a year, the earliest is 1924), as well as a host of one-off annuals that were mainly published in the 1930s-50s.
Mixed comic book and/or pulp comic titles and/or newspaper strip titles - I don't tend to collect the actual original comics/books, more often getting modern reprints/collected editions. Usually just because they're cheaper & easier to get hold of. Plus I don't have to worry as much about damaging them! I'm especially interested in the earlier comic book heroes. In addition to the huge names like Superman/Batman in their 1930/40s appearances, I also have a good mix of The Phantom (1936), Flash Gordon (1934) The Shadow (1930), Zorro (1919) for instance. But it's quite eclectic & hops around between countries & time periods. Some of the other big name titles are the TMNT (1984), Usagi Yojimbo (1984), The Rocketeer (1982), Tintin (1929), Blake & Mortimer (1946), Asterix (1976), and a personal favourite Dan Dare (1950). You get the picture, usually anything which is a fun adventure-based story series whether it's written or drawn. Oh, and a complete run of Peanuts “Snoopy”. A 25/6 volume collection that collects all 17,897 strips!
Also, shout out to The Shadow's radio show - you can listen to 100s of episodes on YouTube for free! I find them great fun to listen to when I'm working. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men…
As you can probably imagine, it's a little bit like living in a library at home. 😃
I find them fascinating - it's like visiting a time capsule. Seeing what adults thought were acceptable lessons to be taught, and getting a mental picture of how much the world has changed, and for the longer-lived characters, how they've grown & adapted over the years too.
One thing that always sticks out as being a huge contrast in time in my mind is Superman thought it was okay to punish a rather “full of herself” woman in her mid 20s, in order to make her more “acceptable” housewife-to-be to the 1940s man. You know how he did this? He put her over his knee and spanked her! And that was in a kids comic!
I don't think she'd done anything criminal, just be a bit selfish. Thankfully times have changed as to what is acceptable conduct. But it's fascinating to see the ideals & morals that people were trying to instill into children, or for some titles, what was an exciting adventure tale for adults.
Restoring classic antique firearms. This Christian Sturm pinfire double is particularly interesting as it was stolen from a pile of weapons meant to be run over by a tank in 1930's Germany. Ironic because even then, pinfire cartridges had been obsolete for 50 years.
Restoration will be replacing missing gold inlay near the breech, and wood on the fore end.
I used to collect media format types (eg CDs, VHS cassettes) pretty often several years ago. I went to record stores, thrift stores, game stores and more to find them. However, the hobby got a bit too expensive that I narrowed down my collection to phonograph records. It was until I purchased a coin lot online a few years ago that I nearly stopped collecting formats. Today I continue collecting formats, but not as eagerly as coins Here are some photos of my media collection:
Lately, somewhat triggered by a death in the family, I have been doing a lot of genealogy. I'm an amateur in this, and instead of using standard programs to record my data I have created an Excel document in the form of a series of trees which I link to each other. The last names on a branch (16 in the last column of every tree) become the first names of the branches going back (unless a branch dries up). I also save screen shots of any useful and interesting information.
Here is an interesting little problem, and there's a chance in a million that one of you knows more if you happen to have other members of the Heppell (or Heppel) family among your ancestors or know about the history of Salem NY:
My great-grand mother on my mother's mother's side was a Heppell. The first Heppel to come to eastern Quebec from Salem NY was “Jean-Jacob”, i.e. probably “Johann Jacob” (since they were German immigrants) or “John Jacob”. The documents record the names of his parents, and here the trail dries up, but it may be the case that someone, by now, has done further research on this family — possibly even some Numista member?? Again, a chance in a million…
Camerinvs, for years I was the keeper of family letters and diaries. I've since passed them on to a younger cousin in New Hampshire who is way better skilled at research and preservation.
Among these was a 1775 almanac with hand written entries. One of my former apprentices was researching his wife's ancestor, an Abbott from Andover, MA. I mentioned the almanac, which was also from Andover. It turns out that his wife and I share a common ancestor.
Maybe not one in a million; more like one in 100,000. It's fascinating, especially for folks with a passion for history.
It's great to have a family archive. I just have a few documents and heirlooms, including an anvil made from a railway track from my great grandfather who worked for the Canadian National Railway.
Interestingly the most difficult part is often the grand and great grandparents. Once you have that info, much will be publicly available online for the generations before that.
You'd be surprised at just how much money you can spend hiring someone to go to an archives or a library and take images of documents and pages of books. Who needs to spend money on the actual coins?
The subject here is genealogy, which, admittedly, one could indeed spend a great deal on. I'm sorry if your experiences have been less than satisfactory. For myself, I'm not at all experienced or comfortable, and so rely on others I trust. I'm sorry to say that the more I'm forced into the ‘fast lane’, the more I feel out of sorts. But for me, at least, the historical benefits have been worth it. So far.
The subject here is genealogy, which, admittedly, one could indeed spend a great deal on. I'm sorry if your experiences have been less than satisfactory. For myself, I'm not at all experienced or comfortable, and so rely on others I trust. I'm sorry to say that the more I'm forced into the ‘fast lane’, the more I feel out of sorts. But for me, at least, the historical benefits have been worth it. So far.
Were you responding to me? I can't tell if you were without you using the quote-thingy. My experiences have not been “less than satisfactory,” just satisfactory but EXPENSIVE. I cannot travel to the US archives in Maryland or the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Library in Manila, for example. When I wrote about Korean coins, it wouldn't have mattered if I could travel to Korea or not, since the authorities there refuse to open their mint archives to even their own citizens. I would rather do this work myself, but I have to hire out for it because hiring the work out is still less expensive than going to these locations myself. Often document dives result in coming up with nothing. But you have to do it to see what you can find. Much of the useful document or book material concerning coins (and many other things!) has never been digitized, much less put on the internet. The historical benefits have been worth it so far for me, too.
DPerdue, yes I was responding to your post. My phone simply refuses to do the quote thing, nor can I do links. I apologise.
I fully agree with your assessment regarding research. Some years ago, I tried to access the US National Archives regarding my great grandfather's civil war records. It turns out that the records had been moved, and it was suggested that I could possibly utilize the services of an archival researcher.
Being of Scots, New Englander origin, I was a bit hesitant to send good money after bad.
About genealogy, you get easy access to millions of documents online by subscribing to Ancestry or other such repositories. I haven't yet but will eventually.
Everytime I watch “Finding Your Roots” on PBS I become more motivated to keep going. One thing they do is search through archives of newspapers. I haven't done much of that so far but with a little luck some of the smaller local papers have been digitized by some government department or library or university.
As for other research fields it's very true (as you say, DPerdue) that often you may go through an entire archive and find nothing of value. About numismatics, some areas are much easier to research online than others. There are excellent, freely accessible archives for Australia and the Caribbean. It looks like Korea isn't in that category, but I would need to know Korean to be able to tell.
Speaking of genealogy, my uncle had the distinction of creating the first family history chart of an entire community in India, more specifically the Genealogy of the Mangalorean Catholic Community.
I remember him visiting my family back in the late 90s to specifically interview about my Lobo clan and get permission to access church documents related to birth, marriage, death etc (ironically he is related to my mother and of a different line of Lobos)
My family’s line can be traced back to about 1720 to one Diecos Lobo. his origins are not clear, but he was likely of the landed gentry (Brahmin class) that were the initial targets of portuguese jesuit missionaries.
Manglorean Catholics are actually a subset of Goan Catholics who fled the Portuguese inquisitions and sought refuge under the maharaja of Mysore. Manglorean Catholics distinguished themselves from Goan Catholics primarily by maintaining many of their previous Hindu customs like wearing a red saree for a wedding and even maintaining theit old hindu clan name (off the books to low key remind everyone of their high class status I suppose)
The community was almost wiped out under Tipu Sultan of mysore (whose father had overthrown The maharaja). they were essentially stuck between the Portuguese who considered them bad christians and tipu sultan who was suspicious of them. So they threw their lot with the British & east India company of the time. By the end of the siege of srirangapatam, only about 1/5th survived.. or about 22,000 individuals who were imprisoned in the citadel over there. Eventually the maharaja was restored by the British and the community started rebuilding, now a little over a million spread over the world Including yours truly
as far as the pre-christian heritage is concerned, mangalorean Catholics would fall broadly under the Gaud Saraswat Brahmin sect. the history here is a mix of the real and legend … as children of Goddess Saraswati (daughter of lord Shiva) , who in her earthly form was the mythical Saraswati river that flowed from the Himalayas southwestward into the Arabian Sea, the GSB followed along her path and migrated from what is today Kashmir down towards the Konkan coast of western india (includes present day Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka).
Ashlobo, many thanks for that fascinating history.
I have an Indian connection, in that my uncle traveled there and married a younger bride from an orphanage in the Southern district. I'm kicking myself for not having the sense to record the details. Apparently on the way back to the US, they got caught up in the 1967 Isreali war, and had to find refuge at a Christian Monestary for a couple of months. It might have been Lebonon, but I can't remember.
At any rate, my cousin, Chandrika, is now the keeper of family papers, I mentioned earlier.
As for other research fields it's very true (as you say, DPerdue) that often you may go through an entire archive and find nothing of value. About numismatics, some areas are much easier to research online than others. There are excellent, freely accessible archives for Australia and the Caribbean. It looks like Korea isn't in that category, but I would need to know Korean to be able to tell.
The Korea newspaper archive is AMAZING. Six decades (1930s-1999) of seven major daily newspapers are entirely digitized and available for FREE on the internet …and it's all SEARCHABLE by date, keywords, etc(!!!) It's called the Naver News Library: https://newslibrary.naver.com
Then again, the Koreans are amazing. In this case, it's because they are very literate as evidenced by the hundreds of articles that the dailies in Korea had written just about coins(!) They are also quite competent people who went through the hard work to put all that primary documentation up online for everyone to access. It was a huge boon to my research. I found all of South Korea's coin issue announcements, articles on coins, articles on coin designs, designers and development of their mint, articles on coin usage in payphones, mass transit, vending machines, and as change coins. Just incredible. By contrast, in researching the Philippines' newspaper archive for 1950s to 1990s Philippine coins, their newspaper archive only exists in microfilm format at the National Library in Manila and is only searchable if you're willing to spend LOTS of time to find the rare coin articles that were published. If you know the date that a Philippine coin was finally released into circulation, you may be able to find an article about it. Often, coins entered circulation there by a certain date (I know this because I have the US Mint files on these coins), and the dailies there never even mentioned it. Yes, some areas are much easier to research than others~!
Ah, interesting — and obviously your Korean skills are much, much better than mine. All I can do is tell people “No, this is not Chinese; this is Korean…”. I got better at recognizing the writing system after I found a Korean coin near the harbour in —of all places— Saint-Pierre et Miquelon in 2017.
Ashlobo's story is very interesting, too. I suppose you need to know the local language(s) there as well in order to do any serious research. I don't have this problem with the Caribbean newspapers that are almost all in English or French (in this case, not for genealogy but numismatics). There are also Dutch and even Danish newspapers (Curaçao, Danish Virgin Islands, etc.), but I've not done any research so far where these two languages would have been useful. I have a couple of research ideas about the Guyanas, and maybe Dutch will turn out to be useful, but I doubt it.
Have a look at the dLOC archive for the Caribbean. It's truly an amazing and inexhaustible source of information: newspapers, books, pictures, manuscript letters and other documents. And they keep adding to it regularly. Some newspaper runs start in the late 1700s. I have been researching a particular coin series in Trinidad for which I've used the Port of Spain Gazette (1825–1959 but mostly 1850–1874) and the Trinidad Royal Gazette (incomplete but most years are available from 1835).
The most difficult task with many such databases is to get familiar with the search engines. Once you master this, you're on your way to amazing discoveries.
I'm aware that not every collector has an interest in this level of research. I may have annoyed some on this site with my detailed references to old newspapers…
As for manuscript documents, they're becoming more difficult to access as less and less people learn cursive writing in school. I believe it's some department in the US state of Georgia where, not that long ago, they were advertising for people good at reading cursive writing in order to transcribe historical documents. If you're provided with good digital pictures, I suppose you wouldn't even need to travel to Georgia to do the job. Once manuscript documents are transcribed, they become searchable.
Camerinvs, (I'm again sorry I can't do the quote thing), but please continue. And also your researches, DPerdue. This is indeed way beyond anything I have experience with, but this is (hopefully) a learning forum, and I truly welcome the input. I may not be able to benefit from all of it, but just having it available is a benefit.
Regarding hand written manuscripts, it would usually take me several days before I could accurately transcribe an account book or farm ledger. This was further complicated by the fact many settlers here (Dutch and Palatine German) had English as a second language. And even the English speakers often spelled phonetically. Quite challenging at times deciphering dialect and accents.
The Lego Modulars and Ideas sets are another expensive hobby of mine (Why is leisure so expensive?).
This is my treehouse set from 2021, I reassembled it after I demolished when I moved in 2024. It comes with summer and autumn leaves and originally I put summer leaves on, and now have placed autum ones one. I love this set with its “Swiss Family Robinson”. 50 years old and never felt more childish in my life.
These photos capture the autumnal shadows on this autumnal masterpiece (The set was taken back inside as sun on lego is not good, makes it brittle).
Just bought Neuschwanstein castle and the 2026 Modular which is a city street.
Also have reassembled the 2024 botanical garden, 2025 Amelia steamboat and 2022 Notre Dame set.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
The Lego Modulars and Ideas sets are another expensive hobby of mine (Why is leisure so expensive?).
This is my treehouse set from 2021, I reassembled it after I demolished when I moved in 2024. It comes with summer and autumn leaves and originally I put summer leaves on, and now have placed autum ones one. I love this set with its “Swiss Family Robinson”. 50 years old and never felt more childish in my life.
These photos capture the autumnal shadows on this autumnal masterpiece (The set was taken back inside as sun on lego is not good, makes it brittle).
Just bought Neuschwanstein castle and the 2026 Modular which is a city street.
Also have reassembled the 2024 botanical garden, 2025 Amelia steamboat and 2022 Notre Dame set.
The Lego Modulars and Ideas sets are another expensive hobby of mine (Why is leisure so expensive?).
This is my treehouse set from 2021, I reassembled it after I demolished when I moved in 2024. It comes with summer and autumn leaves and originally I put summer leaves on, and now have placed autum ones one. I love this set with its “Swiss Family Robinson”. 50 years old and never felt more childish in my life.
These photos capture the autumnal shadows on this autumnal masterpiece (The set was taken back inside as sun on lego is not good, makes it brittle).
Just bought Neuschwanstein castle and the 2026 Modular which is a city street.
Also have reassembled the 2024 botanical garden, 2025 Amelia steamboat and 2022 Notre Dame set.
Third-party sellers make “lighting kits" for these Lego sets. Is yours illuminated? Nice~!
I have seen those kits, but their price puts me off, usually around $100 - $200 per kit for a standard Modular set or an ideas set.
Here's another one of my creations I bought.
Notre Dame, when I was rebuilding it, a nice set and very hard. Only partially built here, but very intricate
The large garden set frm 2024, one of my favourites, all the flowers and bright plants!
Some other views of it, a great set!
The riverboat Amelia at various stages of build, another great and intricate set.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Cool, that early stuff is worth big bucks now, the base plate with the camo print would be very rare. Lego hasn't made them for decades and people pay big bucks for it. Also back then, Lego was not actively seeking adult collectors and had nearly gone bankrupt.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Yes, I know! It was a hard decision to let my kids play with $1000 worth of Legos. I thought about selling them and buying other Legos, but I saved them for 30 years for my kids to play with. So I made the choice to let them play with them.
Taking a break from swapping for a while, but still interested in pre 1799 Spanish coins, I will make time for that!
(not that I did many yet) : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1G_FDDFYqSdaT-sLzLiWmeefZKDg&usp=sharing 
I wonder how many others out there share it?
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