ROBBYBOBBY64
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My mother was big into antiques. We always lived with them so I guess it makes me feel closer to home. My parents are still alive but they don't live in the house I grew up in. It was sold after the 4th son moved out. It was a big colonial built in 1874. I would love to hunt Big brook. I am very close to there. The crucibles sound very neat. Couple of feet...non-chalantly said. Like you, I love finding fossils and bottles of course crystals too. I am forever playing in the streams looking for stuff to identify even if I don't bring it home. You know, now that i think about it, I guess I blame my mom for collecting.... I can't thank her enough!great question, probably a slightly different answer from each person. I'm convinced collecting was passed in the DNA i got from my mother. As a kid, baseball cards, comic books but also anything i saw and liked, i picked up and kept. As an adult i picked up and brought home rocks and shells and anything i found that i liked. I collected books (fine printing and private presses) until it got to be too expensive and i sold my collection to a dealer. Eight plus years ago we moved to Jersey City and live in what used to be the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company site so of course i started collecting Dixoniana have have hundreds of items from Civil War era stock certificates to advertising to crucibles ranging from a couple of inches to a couple of feet tall. Just before the pandemic started, i started going to Big Brook in New Jersey and collecting Cretaceous shark teeth (and a whole host of stuff from that era all the way to modern bone). I found the base of a pontiled bottle there and that's what started me on bottles. Bottom line is i like to hunt and find
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