Collecting
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https://christmas.musetechnical.com/
A curated digital archive of vintage US retail seasonal catalogs and Christmas Wishbooks, featuring scanned pages from iconic retailers like Sears, JC Penney, and Montgomery Ward. Nostalgia-seekers and collectors will find a treasure trove of holiday wish books spanning decades of American retail history.
https://coinbooks.org/
The Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS) is a nonprofit educational organization founded in 1979 dedicated to collecting and promoting literature about coins, medals, tokens, and paper money. Visitors can explore the weekly E-Sylum newsletter, podcast episodes, a subject and author index, back issues of the journal The Asylum, and membership resources for enthusiasts of numismatic books and periodicals.
https://blue-miaou.neocities.org/
Sawyer's personal website, gated behind an entry page, is part of several webrings including a Collectors Ring and a Transmasculine Pride Webring, hinting at a hobbyist collector with niche interests. The site comes with content warnings for flashing images and background music, suggesting a richly styled old-web aesthetic awaits inside.
http://www.movieprop.com/
Mark Crawley's MovieProp.com is a comprehensive resource dedicated to collecting production-used Hollywood memorabilia, including celebrity wardrobe, sci-fi props, and replicas from films and TV shows. The site also features in-depth coverage of specific franchises like Aliens, Terminator, and Battlestar Galactica, plus movie reviews organized by genre and subcategory.
https://expositionmedals.com/
Robert Fowler's comprehensive guide to collecting award medals from American and European World's Fairs and Expositions, covering events from the 1851 Great Exhibition in London through the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. Each exposition gets its own detailed page featuring digital images of the medals, descriptions of design elements, types of awards given, and rich historical context that makes this a gem for numismatic enthusiasts.
http://atsf.railfan.net/airhorns
Five Chime Consultants maintains an exhaustive reference guide to North American diesel locomotive air horns, covering manufacturers like Nathan Airchime, Leslie Controls, and Wabco across dozens of specific models from the 1950s through 1980s. Founded in 1990 to preserve vintage railroad horn sounds, the organization has hands-on history leasing restored horns to excursion trains and museums, lending this informational site a depth of real-world expertise.
https://leetles.com/
Leetle Adoptables is a community platform where users collect, trade, and display tiny pixel art adoptables created by artists from around the site. Founded by T.J. Lipscomb in 2009, it features a toybox system, a trading post, and a shop, making it a charming hub for pixel art collecting and virtual pet culture.
https://crwflags.com/fotw/flags/index.html
Flags of the World (FOTW) is a massive collaborative vexillology encyclopedia cataloging flags from every nation, region, organization, and historical period imaginable. A member of the International Federation of Vexillological Associations since 2001, the site includes a dictionary of vexillology, flag bibliographies, colouring books, and highlights on current flag events worldwide.
https://australian-postcard-society.com/
The Australian Postcard Society Inc. is an Adelaide-based club founded in 2009 for enthusiasts who collect and study postcards, affiliated with the South Australian Philatelic Council. The site offers membership information, meeting schedules, research articles, book reviews, a photo gallery, and archived issues of the club's quarterly magazine.
https://oldradios.com/
Oldradios.com is George Kaczowka's dedication to the collection and preservation of vintage tube and transistor radios, featuring his personal collection, a Zenith Stratosphere section, parts resources, and archived issues of a radio newsletter. The site also lists radios for sale and wanted, making it a useful hub for fellow antique radio enthusiasts.