when I started 'collecting' I started small but before long my collection grew as collections almost always do, more alarmingly they often become plural ie 'collections' as they did in my case!
I'd really like to collect Utility furniture but haven't the space, ditto for classic cars, motorcycles, tractors, buses, bicycles and no doubt aircraft if I only had the space!!!...but the expense and lack of available funds limit my expansionist dreams with all (well most) of those!
I often think that if I suddenly owned a mansion house that more than likely I'd "fill it with shite" within a fortnight!
So what can a chap safely collect and get away with in a 3 bed end terrace?.....well I'd really, really like even more vintage clothing as I love the different textures of cloth and textile but again space is limited even though both children have flown the coup......however there is an answer for myself and likeminded 'collectors' and that answer if not salvation comes in the form of the necktie, being both cheap often found under the £2.00 mark from charity shops and small enough to have a large collection this really is a wardrobe staple that can add colour and texture to many outfits or even just as a collection of textile, pattern and fashion.
I especially like woven ties and woolen ones and early synthetic fibre ones fit the bill nicely having loads of texture, here are a few I've collected, I don't think I've paid more than £1.95 for any of them.
various woolen ones
A woolen Buckingham's Golden Tassle and two 'Terylene' ones all circa 50's/60's
front views
a mint NOS? 'Duggie'
two post 1964 'Munrospun'
a 'London made' wool tie c 60's
a Vardoc/Anthony Haines age uncertain but almost certainly pre 80's
another 'Terylene' one from the 50's/60's
