Don't agree?
Check out some of these collections and clubs.
For starters, there are Slide Rules. Learned to use these things in high school and one day a rich kid
in my class brought his Dad's brand new HP Scientific calculator into physics class. He said it cost
about $350 and this was as much as a professional would make in an entire week back in 1973.
A year or so later -when I had started college, a simple 4 function job got down to the price that a
college student could afford one. My point here is that a slide rule is an oddity to the young'ens
and a little piece of nostalgia to the rest of us. And this my friends, is precisely what makes for a
good collectable item.
Check out the slide rule collector's club -the Oughtred Society's site, -named after William Oughtred
(1574-1660) the inventor. Or check out this PhD's site on the subject, Eric's Slide Rule Site.
Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum - exquisitely designed, old world craftsmanship abounds here at the Air Sickness Bag Museum. Come and see what no one is talking about.
Or how about Barbed Wire Collecting for weird collectibles? Fire and the wheel were wonderful inventions
in their day, and the steam engine brought about the industrial revolution, but if you are from the Western
US, you know that barbed wire did more to settle the west then six-guns. And you damn bet'cha, there
are people who collect the stuff. Check out The Devil's Rope Museum.
So how about Antique Bottles? The one to the left is an old whiskey bottle. Great site.
You know the story of eBay? The guy that started it did so for his girlfriend who
collected PEZ Dispensers.
And there is a club and news letter for such people.
Storage and Display Cases:
So how do you store and display your weird and wonderful collection? What sort of drawer case or display case for your own weird collectibles? Well, because I don't know what your collection is all about, I have to make generic suggestions as to what sort of display case you need. For those cherished items you want to tuck away....
....a finished drawer case with drawers of graduated depths, -shallow ones on top and deeper ones on the bottom. The one shown is a
Walnut -multi-depth Drawer Case
And for the items that you want to have on display.....
....consider an extra large display case. The one shown is a
If
you chase some REALLY weird collectibles and need advice on how to store and display
it, drop me a line at 
Or just tell me about it and maybe I can put it on this page.