[meteorite-list] What else do you collect?

[MARK BOSTICK]

Hello all,

I have always been a collector and usually end up going off the deep end in 
various items. Stamp collectors use the term study to justify purchasing 
vast accounts of pretty much the same item.  I guess I "study" a lot of 
things.

Things that I am somewhat actively collecting include:

•	War Letters, mostly WWII but have various letters from the Civil War up to 
Desert Storm. Have no current war letters if anyone has family members 
active...;^)
•	US Stamps, have about 95% of all of commemoratives and defintives (and 
their major variations), a good share of the back of books and am running 
out of stamps that I don't have and are within a price I am willing to pay. 
Various other sub-collections, like Air Mail First Day Covers (FDC) and 
programs (preferred signed).
•	US Coins, have about 95% of all of them and again, running out of ones 
that I don't have and are within a price I am willing to pay. Have not 
bought any for myself for about a year, mostly just rolls of proof coins and 
the like for ebay.
•	PSA graded sport cards: Third party grading has always been a good thing, 
but now they have an online registry that allows you to compare your 
collections with others and compete for award certificates. It’s a way to 
spend $10 on a card worth $0.25 if not graded. I also have a collection of 
about 1200 different Steve Young football cards, with about 100 different 
game used cards. Years ago I use to deal in cards and made about $100 a week 
as an early teenager which seemed like a lot more money then.
•	Meteorites. Subcollections meteorite pamphlets, toys, books and 
publications. If anyone has any meteorite pamphlets or will be making at any 
time I would like one.
•	Mad Magazine and Cracked Magazine Original Art...along with the related 
printing overlays and printing note cards, most of which are no longer done 
as Mad and Cracked are finished on computers now. Most purchased from the 
artist and usually for just about nothing.
•	Space related items: Astronaut autographs and letters, NASA flown 
hardware. The strangest thing I bought along this line was one of the 
X-Prize space rockets.....this taught me the valuable lesson I like to joke 
about, Space rockets do not fit through doorways.

I have a quite a bit of minerals, fossils (most dinosaur) and petrified wood 
as well, but don’t really actively collect these items.
Clear Skies,
Mark