Don’t you love peeking into people’s personal collectibles?
Some of my favorite lenses are the ones where lensmasters share their prized collections.
If you’re like me, you’re going to love the following 6 featured lenses that were created for our “What Do You Collect” Quest.
Take a peek at each of these fun lenses full of all kinds of collecting information and then, if you’ve created a lens about your favorite thing to collect, please feel free to share the link in the comments section below. We’d love to see it.
Haven’t made a lens about your favorite collectible yet? What are you waiting for?
Collecting elongated coins is great fun for young and old alike. Although pennies are the most popular, you can also find machines that will press quarters, dimes, or even nickels. Elongated pennies are known by many names – smashed pennies, squished penni…
I love books and I’m very attracted to tiny objects. So when you think about it, collecting miniature books is the perfect choice for me. What is a miniature book? The most basic definition relates to size: Purists define a miniature book as being 3 inches…
3. Collecting Rocks and Minerals
I was only 5 when I went snooping in my father’s closet. Much to my great surprise I found his childhood Rock and Mineral collection stashed away in the back. My eyes lit up as I thought I found hidden treasure and was convinced I was now rich. When my fat…
4. Worcester Patriotic Pewter Plates
For many years my dining room hutch has proudly displayed the Worcester Birth of a Nation pewter plate series. These patriotic collector plates, along with a few others I’ve picked up along the way, are beautiful representations of moments in American hist…
5. Collecting Antique Dough Bowls
If you are collector of dough bowls you know the wide variety of materials, sizes and shapes they come in. Whether you use them for making dough or not, I think dough bowls are a collectible that that can be used in every room of your home as a decorative…
I have collected Matchbox Tops since I was just a young lad. In those days, when many more people smoked and before the days of disposable lighters, it seemed like everyone who smoked (and there were many more then) had a box of matches in their pocket or…
