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<p>[QUOTE="Joe2007, post: 145745, member: 1262"]I started attending auctions with my parents and grandfather during high school and caught the collecting bug. Didn't have a job in high school so money was tight, basically whatever I could get out of my parents for allowance + birthday and Christmas money. Here is my collection circa 2006 when I was 17 years old. Sorry about the terrible pics, I dug these pictures out of my photo archive and my photography skills are much improved since 2006.</p><p><br /></p><p>My first piece of McCoy Pottery was the barn on the top shelf of the bookcase, it was produced specifically for the 2003 Ohio Bicentennial so it is not an antique. I started collecting vintage McCoy potter soon after. My first political pinback was a FDR pin that I got from a flea market vendor for $15. My first coin was a 1857 Flying Eagle Cent purchased in the late 1990's for $17. I'm more of an accumulator than anything else so I wouldn't be surprised if I still had all of these items stashed in my hoard with the exception of maybe one or two. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]39069[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]39070[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]39071[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]39072[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]39073[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]39074[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Joe2007, post: 145745, member: 1262"]I started attending auctions with my parents and grandfather during high school and caught the collecting bug. Didn't have a job in high school so money was tight, basically whatever I could get out of my parents for allowance + birthday and Christmas money. Here is my collection circa 2006 when I was 17 years old. Sorry about the terrible pics, I dug these pictures out of my photo archive and my photography skills are much improved since 2006. My first piece of McCoy Pottery was the barn on the top shelf of the bookcase, it was produced specifically for the 2003 Ohio Bicentennial so it is not an antique. I started collecting vintage McCoy potter soon after. My first political pinback was a FDR pin that I got from a flea market vendor for $15. My first coin was a 1857 Flying Eagle Cent purchased in the late 1990's for $17. I'm more of an accumulator than anything else so I wouldn't be surprised if I still had all of these items stashed in my hoard with the exception of maybe one or two. [ATTACH]39069[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]39070[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]39071[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]39072[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]39073[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]39074[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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