Collection Enthusiast Gifts

'It finally took me thirty years, but I finally have one of every 3-D comic book ever made'

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

A hammer in his den enjoying a cigar and port with his collection of trophy thumbs above his head.

'This is a wind-up, isn't it?'

Antiques

'Stamp collecting has gotten more competitive.'

"The last one is Uncle Charlie. He was pardoned in 1987."

Auctioneer: 'Sold to the lady whose husband just walked out!'

"Twenty-five thousand, do I hear thirty thousand? Let me remind you all - this is the last Thin Mint cookie in the sleeve..."

"The keep saying unrestored and what a nice PATINA, Ted. A better-sounding word for old tarnished stuff would be SCRINCH or SKRITCH, don't you think, eh, Ted?"

Doulton Canada Geese

Tourist and Butterfly and Goat

Books of Tablets

Authentic Rinkelmier chair (Built 1723)

"I'm still looking, sir?"

Over-reaction Man.

The Old Curiosity Shop

I brake for anything discarded that I can bring to the antiques roadshow.

"I've up cycled your Chippendale!"

'I'm afraid my husband will stop loving me as I get older.' - 'Mine would never do that with me. You know why, don't you. He's an antique dealer.'

'And here's the crown jewel of the collection. It's an '86, totally organic, and the UK Bag Manufacturers' Association rates it a 99.'

Antique silver

'But Grandma, how did you text on them?'

'Now we come to what it would have been worth'

'Don't even think about it, Walter.'

"And what do you think my husband is worth?"

"Well, Emmeline, what's new?"

Antique Ailments

Antique oriental carpets.

"If you get that vase, I get this bearded lamp."

'It's not a doll. It's an action figure.'

"I'm a hunter-gatherer-hoarder."

End of career sale.