Glass Chatroom Board

@scott: While I am an active antique dealer, I am also very much a collector & have been since I was about 4 years old, circa 1952. When I was little, I collected porcelain & china dog figurines. My dad, in his travels, would always stop somewhere & buy me a dog figurine to bring home to me. Little did we know at the time, but he bought some pretty darn good ones. I still have most of them. Quite a few are Occupied Japan (they were making them at the time) & a few are Dresden. When I was in the 8-12 year old range, it was Baseball Cards & Comic Books. Still have some of those too. Im late teens/early 20's it was antique & collectible firearms. One of my guns, an 1858 Nickle Plated Burnside Cavalry Carbine (one of only 500 made for parade use) now hangs in the Gettysburg Museum.
Then it was Militaria......uniforms, medals, badges, swords & gear from all wars & periods. Then, in the early/mid 70's, I got into glass. I built up & sold 3 Carnival Glass collections between 1973-1999. The first was all Tumblers, the second mostly Northwood and the third all Imperial. Sold off all of those. Then I built up a collection of over 180 pieces of Imperial Slag Glass. Sold that off in 2003. Since then I've been collecting Dugan Art Glass and Coins. And of course, I'm a big film buff & have collected nearly 500 titles in my movie library. So, trust me, there ARE collectors here. LOL!