Alice
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Calling all Natural hordersMe and Woz are natural horders...so here we go..we collect:
60's, 70's kitchen stuff
Berkley dolls/ Webb dolls (popular culture dolls from the 60's)
Antique books
BOOKS
Antique sheet music (which I play)
Matchboxes and badges
Old popular culture mags (eg. old old cleos and etiquette books)
Anything kombi
Any interesting things related to past popular culture
Paintings
Australiana
Balianese, Aztec, Mayan, Incan Statues
Vintage Clothes and Retro Clothes
Woz has 20 years worth of band t-shirts
Locally indigenous edible plants
Musical Instruments
Beanie Kids
Anything Pirate
Fossils (Brought some amazing ones just recently)
I have an "un pc" collection (no animal cruelty involved...)
And last of all lots of empty beer bottles for the home brew kit....
If anyone wants to discuss anything, I love to talk about my collections...and yes..our house is very very full...
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Diddlie
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Would love to haev a peep inside your house!!
I only collect dust  and single socks waiting for their partners to reappear!
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Gabbo's Run
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Our shelves are that full, there is no where for the dust to land.
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Alice
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Yeah...It's great but there is only so much you can display...I think we have too much stuff now...
Oh I forgot to mention 50's and 60's bathroom things...like old pink scales in stones.
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Gabbo's Run
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Cathy has gone to the dentist, so i thought i would sneak in a couple of pics of her hording and clutter up.
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Gabbo's Run
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But wait theres more.
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Brookie
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A garage sale would quickly raise enough for another Kombi -maybe even a splittie 
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Gabbo's Run
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Couple more before she gets home.
that ones my little area.
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Alice
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I should get some pics too...
I can even recognise things that we have too...I love those old electric kettles (we have a couple too)....I also have an almost matching Japanese silk teddy bear...I imagine you would find matching things in our clutter.
What is your very favourite collection or item?
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Gabbo's Run
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My favorite collection would be to sell it all on ebay. I have heaps of tobacco tins. cathy has the rest. She makes all her own witches and dolls and bears etc and spends anything up to 50 hours each making them at a cost of a couple hundred bucks each. She dont see what i put here as she aint into computers etc. But i would love to chuck it all on ebay. Her greatest collection is, that she has every card that was ever sent to us going back 37 years for kids being born etc. Every card i or the kids ever gave her ie xmas, easter, aniversary, birthday. you name it and she has every card. I just go along with the collection. Tea pots are her favorite i think, she has one worth 600 bucks, the others are also worth dollars. she normally pays about 200 each for the english ones. The kettles, thats a different story she loves them too and has about 18, the dearest one she paid 85 bucks for at a antique fair in warnambool. that was the specled bird shown some where.
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Alice
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So many things are my favourite...i love the book with wild notes on the pages by the original owner in fountain pen from 1895 (with name and address in the front) and the charity badge sold in 1945 in Maribyrnong (in Melbourne)...Woz has a newspaper from the day he was born....but here's a few pics (without having to go into cupboards).
These Berkley / Webb dolls were popular culture from the late '60's and early 70's...on the right is an old bottle with the original label (A gallon of laxitive!!!) a tabacco tin, a canasta card set from the 50's
These dolls I've been collecting for a while...I now have 15. I buy them from op shop...most of them for about $5...one I brought myself because of it's rarity for $30...they are worth $25-50 now..
Woz got this the other day...just one of those unusual pop. culture things...it is an alcohol decanter...when you lift out the decanter it plays a tune...very tacky and cool
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Alice
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I forgot to mention that Woz brought a lot of the Berkley dolls for me...he knew I liked them and brought me about 6 and that was the start of my collection.....
I then investigated them and now if I see them I buy them.....they are fragile and will only increase in value.
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Gabbo's Run
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lovely pics alice. if i could sneak all the ones cathy made you would be surprised. maybe tomonnow when she at work. but if i bont put them back between the dust she will know.
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Gabbo's Run
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maribanong as you a melbournian spelt it, or marybirnong, i forget how to spell it also. shit i used to live in moonee ponds, but long time ago.
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Alice
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Whoops....sorry.....Maribyrnong!
I would love that which your wife does... Creativity in all forms I love...from music to making teddy bears....it poos all over people who become rich from shares!!
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Gabbo's Run
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will have some more goodies for your perusal in the next couple of days Alice.
Have been busy percuring some gear from the UK in the past weeks. Not kombi of coarse, just cottage pottery stuff. was cheaper to get it from the UK including postage than what it was to get in oz.
brian
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Gabbo's Run
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the 2 bottles of kahlua on top of the fridge have long been emptied. 
brian
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