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Collecting music memorabilia

Writing Prompt: What’s in your music memorabilia collection??

I recently had a brief discussion with a friend about bits and pieces we collect throughout our lives. Some people collect stamps, coins, first edition books, vinyl records, seashells, baseball cards, cheese knives, or woodworking tools.

And of course, some people just collect (or accumulate?) rubbish, junk, bad debts and worse habits!

Members of my extended family collect things such as elephants (just the small-ish carved types!), giraffes (ditto!), tea pots, and pill boxes (200 plus and counting). I’ve been known to collect a few things in the past as well. The photo below shows a sample of my collection of electrical insulators. I collected most of these in remote parts of the country where old telegraph and power lines had fallen into disrepair. It’s a small collection of about 50, of all shapes, sizes and colours, and they decorate the tops of my home office bookshelves.

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Music memorabilia

Our conversation moved on to music memorabilia. We each have modest collections in the grand scheme of collections, but…