IceInSpace Xmas 2009 Competition - What Did You Collect When You Were a Kid?

[TJD (Trevor)]

i collect cards i have them from all diferent parts of the world each is from a different place i have lots of them of them but still non from my home city perth

the second collecter is astro stuff its my deep dark secret
nice posts from every one

merry christmas

[jsc248 (John)]

Hi Gang,
This is my collection of the works of Sir Patrick Moore. See what you think!
Astronomy Based Books
Astronomy Encyclopaedia (HB 2002)
Astronomy Encyclopaedia (SB 2002)
Atlas Of The Universe (HB 2005)
Atlas Of The Universe (SB 1999)*
Moon Flight Atlas (HB 1969)*
Moon Flight Atlas (HB 1969)
Exploring The Earth And Moon (HB 1996)
Seeing Stars (SB 1970)
Guiness Book Of Astronomy Facts And Feats (HB 1992)
Mission To The Planets (HB 1990)*
Mission To The Planets (SB 1995)
Futures:50 Years In Space-w/h David Hardy (HB 2004)**
What We Thought Then, What We Know Now (SB 2006)
Halley's Comet Pop Up Book-w/h Heather Couper (HB 1985)*
Jupiter-w/h Garry Hunt (HB 1981)
The Moon (HB 1981)
Brilliant Stars (HB 1996)*
Travellers In Space And Time (SB 1983)
The Moon-w/h H.P.Wilkins (HB 1955)
The Moon-w/h H.P.Wilkins (HB 1968)
The Unfolding Universe (HB 1982)
The Next 50 Years In Space (HB 1976)*
Stars And Space (HB 1972)
Fireside Astronomy (HB 1991)
The Boys Book Of Space (HB 1954)
How Britain Won The Space Race-w/h Desmond Leslie (SB 1972)
Mars The First Authentic Guide To Another World-w/h Charles A.Cross (HB 1973)
The Observational Amateur Astronomer (SB 1995)
The Observers Year (SB 1998)*
Life In The Universe-w/h Francis Jackson (HB 1962)*
Life In The Universe-w/h Francis Jackson (HB 1962)
Life On Mars-w/h Francis Jackson (HB 1965)*
Navigation-w/h Henry Brinton (HB 1961)
Patrick Moore On Mars (HB 1999)
Patrick Moore's New Guide To The Planets (SB 1993)
Survey Of The Moon (HB 1963)
Patrick Moore On The Moon (HB 2001)*
Out Of The Darkness/The Planet Pluto-w/h Clive W.Tombaugh (HB 1980)
Exploring The Planetarium (HB1968)
Exploring The Galaxies (HB 1968)
Exploring Other Planets-w/h Henry Brinton (HB 1966)
Exploring Earth-w/h Henry Brinton (HB 1967)
Exploring Earth History-w/h Henry Brinton (HB 1967)
Exploring The World (HB 1973)
The Craters Of The Moon/An Observational Approach-w/h Peter Cattermole (HB 1967)
Guide To The Moon (HB 1976)*
Guide To The Planets (HB 1954)
Guide To The Stars (HB 1960)
80 Not Out The Autobiography (HB 2003)
The Return Of Halley's Comet-w/h John Mason (HB 1984)
The Return Of Halley's Comet-w/h John Mason (SB 1985)**
The Planet Venus (HB 1959)*
Astronomy For GCSE-w/h Chris Lintott (SB 2001)**
Making And Using A Telescope-w/h H.P.Wilkins (HB 1959)
Guide To Comets (HB 1977)*
The Development Of Astronomical Thought (HB 1981)
The Solar System (HB 1959)*
Naked Eye Astronomy (HB 1976)*
The Planets (HB 1962)
The Yearbook Of Astronomy 2002 (SB)*
The Yearbook Of Astronomy 2005 (SB)
The Yearbook Of Astronomy 2006 (SB)
The Yearbook Of Astronomy 2007 (SB)
The Sky At Night (SB 2002)*
Teach Yourself Astronomy (SB 1995)
Stars Of Destiny (HB 2005)
Science And Fiction (HB 1956)
Science And Fiction (HB 1956)
A Guide To Mars (HB 1956)
The Observers Book Of Astronomy (HB1965)*
Black Holes In Space-w/h Iain Nicolson (SB 1974)
Patrick Moore's A-Z Of Astronomy (SB 1976)*
Astronomy Now The Autobiography- (SB 2003)
Bang The Complete History Of The Universe-w/h Brian May&Chris Lintott (HB 2006)**
Bang Up-To-Date-w/h Brian May&Chris Lintott (HB 2007)
Space In The Sixties (SB 1963)*
Guide To Stars And Planets (SB 1980)*
The Sun In Eclipse-w/h Michael Maunder (SB 1998)
Night Sky (SB Booklet 2002)
Night Sky (SB Booklet 2002)
Pocket Guide To Astronomy (SB 2000)*
Can You Speak Venusian (SB 1972)*
The Amateur Astronomer (HB 1957)*
The Photographic Atlas Of The Stars-w/h HJP Arnold&Paul Doherty (SB 1999)
The Starry Sky/The Planets (SB 1994)
The Starry Sky/Comets And Shooting Stars (SB 1994)
The Starry Sky/The Sun And Moon (SB 1994)
Venus (SB 2002)
Exploring The Moon (HB 1964)
The Millennium Yearbook (SB 2000)
The True Book About Earthquakes And Volcanoes (HB 1957)*
The True Book About Earth (HB 1956)*
The Planet Venus (HB 1982)
The Planet Neptune (HB 1988)
Moore On Mercury (SB 2007)
The Sun (HB 1968)
Conquest Of The Air (HB 1961)
Patrick Moore’s Colour Star Atlas (HB 1973)
The Star Of Bethlehem (HB 2003)
Readers Digest Space Exploration Booklet (SB 1958)
Patrick Moore's astronomy Quiz Book (SB 1987)
The Astronomy Of Birr Castle (HB 1971)
Countdown...Or How Nigh Is The End? (SB 1999)
Legend Of The Stars (HB 1973)
Atlas Of Uranus-w/h Garry Hunt (HB 1989)

Science Fiction Books
The Master Of The Moon (HB 1952)
The Island Of Fear (HB 1954)*
Crater Of Fear (HB 1962)*
Quest Of The Spaceways (HB 1955)*
Planet Of Fire (HB 1969)*
Wanderer In Space (HB 1961)
Wheel In Space (HB1956)*
Mission To Mars (HB 1955)*
The Domes Of Mars (HB 1956)*
The Domes Of Mars (HB 1956)
The Voices Of Mars (HB 1957)
The Voices Of Mars (HB 1957)*
Peril On Mars (HB 1958)*
Raiders Of Mars (SB 1964)
Destination Luna (HB 1955)*
Caverns Of The Moon (HB 1964)*
Caverns Of The Moon (HB 1964)*
Wanderer In Space (HB 1974)
Peril On Mars (HB 1974)
Crater Of Fear (HB 1974)
Invader From Space (HB 1974)
Captives Of The Moon (SB 1964)*
Spy In Space (SB 1979)*
Planet Of Fear (SB 1977)*
The Moon Raiders (SB 1978)*
Killer Comet (SB 1978)*
The Terror Star (SB 1979)*
The Secret Of The Black Hole (SB 1980)*
Adventure In Space[Captives Of The Moon]-w/h Angus McVicar (HB 1964)
Ancient Lights (SB 1954/2008)*
Quintet- A Group Of 5 Short Plays*
Adventure In Space[Captives Of The Moon]-w/h Angus McVicar (HB 1964)

DVDs
Journey To The Stars
Moore On The moon*
The Story Of The Total Eclipse*
Apollo 13*
An Interview With Patrick Moore
Sky At Night Apollo 11 Night To Remember
VHS
Patrick Moore’s Guide To Astronomy
The Apollo Story*
The Story Of The Total Eclipse Of 11th August 1999
An Astronauts View Of Earth*
Moore On The Moon*
Cassette Tapes
Patrick Moore’s Astronomy*
The Sky At Night
Independence Day-w/h All Star Cast **
Our Planets In Motion
CDROMs
Space-Interactive Encyclopaedia*
The Interactive Space Encyclopaedia*
Patrick Moore’s Guide To The Universe*
Space-The New interactive Encyclopaedia*
Patrick Moore’s Sketches At The Eyepiece CD1*
Patrick Moore’s Sketches At The Eyepiece CD2
Apollo 11 Moon Landing Radio Recordings
Books With Foreword Written By Patrick Moore
Mrs Moore In Space by Gertrude Moore (HB 1974)*
Mrs Moore In Space by Gertrude Moore (SB 2002)*
The RGO Guide To The 1999 Eclipse Of The Sun by Steve Bell (SB 1997)
Edited By Patrick Moore
Astronomy And Space Vol 2 No 1 (SB 1972)
Astronomy And Space Vol 2 No 2 (SB 1972)
Astronomy And Space Vol 2 No 3 (SB 1972)
Astronomy And Space Vol 2 No 4 (SB 1972)
Planetarium Magazine March 1968
Planetarium Magazine June 1968
Planetarium Magazine September 1968
Planetarium Magazine December 1968
Planetarium Magazine March 1969
Planetarium Magazine June 1969
Sky At Night Magazine 1-Present
Maps
Apollo Moon Map 27”x24”*
Apollo Moon Map 27”x24”
Albedo Mars Map
FDC
1900 Queens South Africa Medal*
Sky At Night Medallion Coin
Music CDs Containing Music Of Patrick Moore
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neil Crossland
Various Artists
Miscellaneous
Newspaper Articles*
Mars Mug
2 Keyrings*
Numerous Personal Letters*
Numerous Photographs*
Key:
*= Signed By Patrick Moore (unless otherwise stated)
**= signed by two or more authors

I am still adding to it all the time too!
John.

[gel]

from bottle tops to bottle labels and scrap books of emma peel(diana rigg) to what i collect now,ie: alfred meakin pixie plates and j.w.gozzard paintings

[Barrykgerdes]

During WW2 we collected cigarette packets and pasted them into an album. With the number of foreign sailors coming to the country there were some quite rare brands of cigarettes. One chap got a write up in the paper for writing to Mr. Churchill for one of his cigar wrappers . It was kindly sent to him.

Barry

[Clarendon]

I became fascinated with the sky as a small child while outside I noted a cold front moving in from the south and thought to myself that it was a blanket coming over the sky to bring on night time. A fascination with weather developed to an interest in science as well as the obligatory stamp collection. I proceeded to collect my first science book a science textbook "SCIENCE" produced by the Nuclear Research Foundation, H. Messel was the chair. It contained colour plates of the night sky and spectra of various elements, I was on my way. The 2nd one was An Easy Guide to Southern Stars by M.A.Orr purchased on a visit to Mt Stromlo as a student.
I still collect science books and other science items, a treasure being a book by Eve Curie about her mother, Marie Curie, an early role model for me.
The latest edition is a small refractor telescope built by Edward Wrench circa 1790's in working condition.

[FarmerBen]

reading the posts has taken me back to my childhood. I used to collect stamps from all over the world (easy when your parents were always moving), matchbox cars, erasers (I still have an original Yoda eraser), pens, books, pencil sharpeners, lego, postcards, sea shells, and pocket knives.

These days, I stick with books and memories (both mentally and photographically)

Good luck everyone, and Happy Christmas!

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

Collectible cards, still have many full sets, although the older cards hadn't been kept well and have now sadly, deteriorated. I also collected the Star Wars Kenner/Toltoys figures. I finished that set off in my mid twenties ;-)

Dave

[Pack]

I grew up in the sixties and collected newspaper cuttings from every space event I could find, especially Apollo moon missions.

[ejcruz (Eddie)]

Collected coins, and I'm still looking for that 1930 penny I believe only 3 somehow got released, one of them is in the museum the other two are floating about somewhere.

Cheers
Eddie

[Domol (Domenic)]

in the 70's we collected stamps & footy cards (the old VFL)
Times have certainly changed. My kids think I was mad collecting used postage stamps! I still have the stamp collection (which is worthless now) but didn't keep the footy cards (which might be quite valuable now!)....

[Blue Fire]

Niko: Thanks so much for the additional info on boomerangs! They really do fascinate me. Now that you've whetted my appetite, I'm going to have to do some more research on my own. I remember getting the plastic and foam ones from Walmart as a young adult and I think I even threw a real one that a friend had once.

[timmo567 (Tim)]

Basketball cards are the first collection I can remember. After that it became cards from chip packets of the various types.

[harwayharry (Wayne)]

Maybe there's someone out there who also collected cigarette packets as kids in the 50s. These were the old style packs with a sliding inner with names like Players, Senior Service and Garrick. In a masterpiece of engineering, we used to fold them down to become flat packs. We would then swap or compete to vary or add to our collections. Competing consisted of throwing to a wall - closest to the wall and face side up won the game. Yep, there was the odd fight over who won !!

Since I grew up, I have mostly collected memories and, sadly, as I get older I can't find either the cigarette packs or most of the memories.

[RapidEye]

Football cards (American style of course). Tried stamp collecting but didn't have the patience.

Now, I collect telescopes - most recent addition was an 18" F/4.5 Obsession. Going to be hard to top it... but I'll try!!! =-)

Best holiday wishes to all you guys down unda!

[Arc]

"Flags of the World" collector cards, they came out of boxes of Lipton tea. (At least I think it was Liptons; late 70's)

[bones]

As a kid.
Stamps - When I was a kid my sister used to work for an accountant. They used to get heaps of mail so every now and then she'd give me squillions of used stamps from which I'd soak off the bits of envelopes and dry 'em out to collect. I also had others that I'd buy new at the post office in sets or first day covers, and at one stage got a few o'seas stamps from some stamp club mob. Overall I used to collect stamps from oz and overseas.
Rocks - As a kid I grew up on a rural property. I used to collect what ever interesting rocks we could find - mainly usually bits of quartZ. Would have preferred gold of course, but no gold in them hills of the Central Coast.
Footy Cards - I had a crack at footy cards (NRL) I only collected the 1980 set. Some old faces there and teams like Newtown Jets - still got the whole collection that I'm tempted to flog off one day on ebay.
Weet Bix cards - Got heaps and heaps of those.
Star Wars cards (from The Empire Strikes Back early 1980's).
Records - Still got on vinyl all the Midnight Oil and U2 albums that were released for vinyl. Some other miscellaneous albums as well.
Coins - small collection - still got some 1c and 2c oz coins. Collected when they announced the phase out.

More recently
Shells - I find them on the beach. Use them for arty stuff.
A mess in the house - it's inevitable with children but the collection of mess gets a regular clean out every now and then.
Hugs from my wife and kids.

[Briz]

In my early years I collected bottle tops and chewing gum cards. I was most proud of my "Whacky Plank" collection; also comics, mostly second hand. By high school I moved through the stamp and coin phase.

I still have the stamps and coins, but not the enthusiasm. My cards collecting habit has transformed into collecting playing cards used in casinos around the world. I have cards from 11 Australian casinos, and 12 from USA.

[67champ]

I collected Hotwheels and matchbox cars mostly. I also had a collection the beer cans, and baseball (MLB) and football (NFL) cards. I collected rocks too, but I never really displayed the rocks in a formal way like the others items. Funny, I still can't pass by the Hotwheels cars at the store without looking through them for something that catches my eye. Love the old 1960-1970's "muscle cars".

dana t

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Ever since I have been a kid i have collected electronic parts. Although when I was a kid I collected mostly old telephone switchboard relay's. These were really old but fully operational. Unfortunately my father did not appreciete the collection when it started to get a bit congested in the garage so i had to get rid of them.
Now I have access along with my father and my wife every Australian coin with the exception of a couple of rare coins, 1 penny 1937 would be worth a fortune.

[norm]

Geez, what did I collect when I was kid....

Stamps, rocks (loved my rocks). Footy cards, weetbix cards, batteries (used - yes a sickness), marbles, matchbox cars (I wish I kept them )

My favourite all time collection was refund bottles. Not so much collecting them, but finding them with my mate and cashing them in for 5cents, 10c and the big one in those days 20c. We thought we were rich. The old Shellys, Ecks, Coke, Leed Lemonade, Fanta, Scwheppes!!!

Money was well spent on the pinnies and luxury iceblocks like Hearts and Gaytimes. Bring back those times.

PS: If you're asking where we found our bottles, don't ask.

Norm

BTW: When I got older, I don't know why but I collected a mass of Kinder Surprises.