Things You Can Collect
12 min readMar 2, 2023
- Accordions
- Awards
- Art
- Adding machines
- Advertising posters (Be sure to buy a quality frame — most are colorful and look great hanging on the wall.)
- Air fresheners (They come in all shapes, sizes, and smells.)
- Alarm clocks (Retro alarm clocks make great decorations for a room. A few sought-after clocks by collectors are those made by Westclox, New Haven and Waterbury.)
- Anatomical charts
- First-gen Alexa (Amazon Echo)
- Anchors (all sizes)
- Ankhs
- Antique furniture
- Action Figures
- Antique silver
- Apothecary jars (Early glass and ceramic apothecary container labels are in Latin.)
- Aardvark objects
- Armor (Can be heavy, but definitely stands out in a room.)
- Arrowheads (Keep in mind that it is illegal to take arrowheads from state parks.)
- Arrows
- Artist cards (also sketch cards), editions, and originals (ACEOs)
- Ashtrays (even the old ones are durable and very usable)
- Autographs (always authenticate)
- Axes and hatchets (Most 18th-century felling axes had a cutting edge on one side and a flat, hammer-like head, also called a poll, on the other.)
