Vintage items?

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I love antiques,art,glass,textiles,old tins etc...
It's amazing where you can find this stuff.A very old metal Coca-Cola cooler of mine was rescued from the county dump.

I love collecting vintage automobilia like emblems, horn buttons, wheel center caps, hubcaps, hood ornaments, sales brochures, advertisements, owners manuals, License plates, and interesting parts from interesting vehicles. I love going to the swap meets (a flea market with a strong focus on car parts, tools, collectibles, etc) which happen twice a year and see what I can find. It really is like a treasure hunt, because you never know what you will find buried in that box or that pile of stuff strewn out on a tarp. Even if I never own the actual vehicles, at least I own a piece of them. With that perspective I probably own a few hundred cars and truck.

Some of me rare or interesting pieces are;
- A hood emblem off a late 30's Lasalle
- A radiator emblem of a late 20's or early 30's Chevrolet
- A pair of gas tank emblems off a 2003 100th Anniversary Edition Harley Davidson
- A bulldog hood ornament off a 1960's Mack semi truck
- An operators manual for an early 1960's Seagrave fire truck
- A spark plug for a 1960's era airplane jet engine
- A sales brochure for the 1958 Plymouth (the Christine car)
- A hubcap off a 1936-1937 Ford
- An advertisement for a late teens Hupmobile
- A photography book from the 1st or 2nd year Infiniti was around. It was distributed to those who purchased a brand new Infiniti. It even has a letter from the president of Infiniti. My boss from my job in college found this in his local county dump.

I have MANY, MANY more pieces in the collection that I listed here. This is what immediately came to mind.

Vintage is also a key item I sell online in my eCommerce business. You can't find a lot of this stuff in stores nowadays, and there is no guarantee that you will find it at an antique store, flea market, garage sale, etc. When I find the stuff, I feel like I am helping it find a new home with someone who will appreciate it, and for car part I feel that I am helping keep an older vehicle on the road at least for a little while longer. Right now there is a VHS tape from 1990 and a pair of Realistic brand two-way radios (walkie talkies) from the 80's sitting in my mailbox waiting to start their journey to their new homes.

I usually collect vintage items from the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's, because those were the decades my parents grew up in. But I also collect vintage items before those decades as well.

I have more collections than I care to admit.

I like old metal and glass stuff thats hefty and cold. I have 3 glass telephone pole insulator caps from the 1800s and theyre so cool. I want to collect All the glass things

I like to collect antiques too but I am also a hoarder so need to be careful.
There are too many different things to mention.
I started off with coloured glass objects.

Wow, for some reason I'm surprised at how the poll is doing so far.

I am fascinated by old junk (even literal junk), though I don't really own a lot. Mostly just 70s/80s/90s electronics, videogames, etc. Would love to have some vintage guitars, but they've gone up in price a lot over the past decade or so, and anything on the low end of the price scale is going to require a lot of heavy duty TLC. Especially acoustic instruments.

I do have a cast iron pan that is over 100 years old O_O I cleaned it up and seasoned it and seared some steaks in it not too long ago. It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. But definitely more smokey than I thought it would be.

I don't have an interest in vintage things other than vintage video-games & systems & weapons like knives & blades. My parents love antiques & things & they buy more than they have room for.

I like vintage items, too.
I have:
An old wooden carpenters level that is surprising accurate when compared to a newer one.
A cast iron toy horse drawn wagon.
Brass binoculars made in France.
What appears at first to be a cast iron toy pistol but folds out into a portable boot jack.
A 1904 dated Swedish Army rifle.
Two cast iron pit bulls with slots in their backs to put coins in.

my dad inherited from his granddad, an rickety old double-barreled 12 ga. shotgun that woulda looked rustic over the mantelpiece, between two steer heads. my older brother grabbed it first thing which is odd because he lacks a fireplace. I don't have any such things of that vintage but I do have some old 78 rpm records, one of which dates from 1925, one of the last acoustic [recorded using a humongous horn] discs made before the switchover to electrical recording.

^ That reminds me about something I haven't remembered in a very long time.

When I was a child, the family moved into a new house and we found a load of stuff that the previous owners had left. In there were a whole load of old 78s, all in chunky leather-bound albums. It was mostly British music-hall style music, not really my thing, but the comedy records were very funny (though not for the intended reasons, usually!)

Better still was a bound collection of magazines from (I guess) the late 20s or early 30s, of the "Wonders of the World for Boys" kind of style. They were full of articles about what was then the latest in high technology, with titles like "The Majesty of the Dirigible Airship", complete with beautiful hand drawn diagrams and chummy "jolly hockeysticks" prose. I spent many, many hours up later than I should have been with my nose in those.

My Mum is very good at stashing away family memorabilia and such; I must ask if she still has them.

^^^did you play them back on a period Victrola?

^^ Just the knackered old Garrard "music centre" that my Dad passed down to me, sadly, so I never got to hear them as they were meant to be heard. There were what I guess were some old styluses with the records though. They were like clarinet reeds, with a snippy tool for sharpening the tip.