Collections and memorabolia

[Balifrog]

I wondered if anybody on here is a collector of anything ?
Like stamps, local art, butterflies, flowers ...
Or souvenirs about past family, ones life history, travels etc ?

Personally I have a modest (100 / 220) car / trucks models collection, mainly French models of the 50 to 70's to remember the days where cars all looked different.
And concerning personal stuff, plenty family pictures over 3 generations, plenty of my travels.
And I have 2 trunks in the ex house in BKK which will go to my kids.

 

[Wisnu]

Since we lived more than 2 decades outside Indonesia and travelling a lot, we usually purchased some memorabilia, from fridge magnets to Persian carpets, nothing very specifics - few of them:






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and and in the last one year, I have been quite busy taking care of around 300 pots of succulents, cacti and adeniums - as well as hundreds of other ornamental plants including various types of hibiscus, bougainvilleas, and miana (coleus).
Last week, the natural pond was also just finished; including planting 2 large frangipani trees, amazon bananas (Typhonodorum lindleyanum) and forest giant ferns (Angiopteris evecta). Currently still waiting for the koi fish from Blitar to arrive on this thursday.

 

[Balifrog]

A small sample of the content of one of the BKK trunks
From Egypt where I lived 1 year in early 80's

Sword brought back from Syria by my grandfather early 1900's when Syria was a French protectorate and he did a (military) campaign there.

That's him, and Grandma, picture dates from the 1920's

 

[Balifrog]

Plus hundreds of slides (diapositives).
Indeed in the 70's and 80's developping color pictures was expensive. Slides were cheap, it allowed us to take plenty pics, develop them as slides, and select the few best ones to develop as color picture.

My son is coming over from Thailand this Saturday and he will bring lots of them + a Kodak slide scanner to transform them in JPG format.
I will then select some to develop as paper pictures.

 

[Wisnu]

And for the flowers, few of them,

 

[Wisnu]

More flowers

 

[Balifrog]

Nice flowers.
I never had a "green hand" like we say in France.
I don't have the patience, same goes for fishing.

 

[Balifrog]

I have some old banknotes also, collected during my travels.
Sadly lost (?) one album with notes from Irak and Iran

 

[Balifrog]

 

[Wisnu]

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very interesting to collect the foreign old bank notes; unfortunately was not in my head when we had the opportunity - or probably just not my passion.

 

[Wisnu]

Nice flowers.
I never had a "green hand" like we say in France.
I don't have the patience, same goes for fishing.

honestly, I knew nothing about gardening; but youtube help a lot.

 

[Balifrog]

very interesting to collect the foreign old bank notes; unfortunately was not in my head when we had the opportunity - or probably just not my passion.

I think that it started in my Navy days. After calling in different countries you're always left with some local money that is impossible to exchange. So one day I had the idea to "optimize" those "left overs" and make a collection. From then on, in every country I arranged to have the full range of available notes. Well, not the 500 € ones.....
I am not 100% sure about the VN notes, some were bought in "antique" shops in the 90's and they have a reputation of selling fake antiques. Same for antique watches, of which I have a few.

 

[Jaime C]

I always pick something up on my travels. Perhaps old currency, coins, hotel key cards, wooden keepsakes.

 

[Balifrog]

Well, I think a fair number of the honorable B.M.'s are of a certain age, so can you identify those items, very common when we were MUCH younger ?

Two I can't identify, top left and bottom left.
Any idea ?

 

[Hawk256]

Well, I think a fair number of the honorable B.M.'s are of a certain age, so can you identify those items, very common when we were MUCH younger ?

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Two I can't identify, top left and bottom left.
Any idea ?

Car cigarette lighter at top left and Viewmaster Disc on bottom left.

 

[Balifrog]

Car cigarette lighter at top left and Viewmaster Disc on bottom left.

How could I not recognize the 1st one.... getting old ?
For the second I had completely forgotten about those things.

 

[Shadrach]

How could I not recognize the 1st one.... getting old ?
For the second I had completely forgotten about those things.

As for the handle to open a car window's concern, I wish they came back. It's so frustrating when this goes out and you can't open your window! Seeing the speaker for an outdoor movie drive in, brought back some fond memrories! I certainly don't miss those old hand help credit card machines! I lost $90 once when a guy bought my products, and wrote down a cancelled tel# number!

 

[atlantis]

As for the handle to open a car window's concern, I wish they came back.

They aren't gone and a large number of vehicles in Indonesia still have them. I have a full parking of pick ups and trucks which don't have anything else to open the windows than an handle. In fact, most of, if not all commercial vehicles used to transport goods are only equipped with that.

 

[harryopal1]

Bought a car from daughter in law when arriving here as it was in immaculate condition and a good price. It has electric wind up windows. Much prefere the handle. If you were ever caught in a flood and the electrics fail you can be trapped. Smashing a car window not so easy.

 

[Bob]

Well, I think a fair number of the honorable B.M.'s are of a certain age, so can you identify those items, very common when we were MUCH younger ?

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Two I can't identify, top left and bottom left.
Any idea ?

Bottom right looks like some kind of remote control but it would be nice to see the whole picture.
Have people stopped using measuring tape?