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Craziest Hobbies (Get a Life)
Craziest Hobbies (Get a Life)
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Lopking on the bright side I suppose it's a good job he chose matchboxes and not pillar boxes!
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Looking, not lopking!
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Sadly his wife died two years back, has just moved in with someone else, he may spend a couple of days a week on it I know it seems all consuming but its not taken over his life surprisingly, he sits in a room sorting them out listening to his music not your typical geek, he has put most into around 500 plus albums, some of it is actually a really interesting collection, he has loads of sport I asked him recently have you got any racecourses & he pulled out an album of courses & bookies going back to the 19th century.
He obviously get duplicates but sells them at Auctions, there are conventions in the States twice a year he makes up auction lots & gets decent money for some. |
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Oh, sorry to hear about your friend's wife Pumphol, no offence meant.
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Are there any valuable matchboxes?
Hey, I've just had a great idea! You should suggest he stops collecting matchboxes and starts collecting thimbles instead, he'll be able to collect 300000 before he runs out of places to put them! |
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That's fine no worries, he met someone else a year later, sold his house & moved in with her !
He goes to the states stays with a bloke in Philly, meets up at the convention in whatever city its in & around six of them go hitting the bars every night. I'm almost sorry I gave up collecting  |
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I asked if he was married BTW because I know for an absolute fact that my wife would have thrown any matchbox/pool ball/whatever collection of mine away as soon as it outgrew a small drawer!
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Possibly in the low hundreds for something old & rare, he showed me an original Bryant & May matchbox from around 1860 I think, with all the matches still there, I was holding a box of matches over 150 years old & my thought was someone born best part of 200 years ago had this in her hands & now I'm holding it.
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Hundreds for a matchbox, thousands for pool balls! Damn, I'm in the wrong game.
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Lol Torq
This will make you laugh, I collected for two years & in 76 went to Gran Canaria for a holiday, so I went collecting for myself & my friend, it was a buying frenzy, I found hundreds of boxes, I always got shot of the matches back then & I put hundreds of boxes worth of matches in my hotel emptying the boxes into draws in the room, came back one day & my dad had to explain to the hotel staff what the fack thousands of matches were doing in the sock draws |
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Did I read that right? There is a matchbox convention where blokes travel thousands of miles to go and meet other blokes to talk about matchboxes?
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That's rare most really old ones may be worth a score but this was basically almost an original from the B & M factory's early days
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Yep one of the collectors is a US senator !
Just a reason for a jollie imo |
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Time for some kip
Goodnight |
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I understand and applaud any excuse for a jolly, but just don't get this collecting thing at all. I suppose it really is like a bug, you either catch it or you don't.
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GN Pumphol.
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PM you have a PM.
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Pumphol glad to hear your friend met someone again after losing his wife
 would you say him and his new partner are a good MATCH  |
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Strike a light !!!
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