TimeOut

I was at a Holiday party last night and made a new friend. When I told him I collect watches he told me he collects vintage 9 volt batteries. I had no idea this was a thing but I can see the beauty. ...  

. . . and will pay over market if it's from when they were in LA. ...  

. . . it is an LA Raiders battery. The sky's the limit!

. . . yeah, that would've been too cool ;-) . . .

I only charge 26% finders fee... WAY less than Phillips.

. . . pm sent . . .

As it turns out the Raiders battery is the newest of the lot... circa 1985.

At first glance, on my cellphone, I thought they were cigarette boxes....

Feels like a trip back to the nineties…

Great Collection 👍

Collecting batterie sounds boring and one or two might have been, but the variety here with so many, it looks good. If Mr.Hirst can charge a lot of money for a display of pills this looks way better.

basic joy experienced in collecting transcends the particular object of desire.

The comedian Steven Wright had a joke about batteries: “I’d hate to be a battery...you’re either working…or you’re dead"

This collector faces limited competition and the more he collects, the more power he has. (I couldn’t help myself)

The alphabetical order must make it some work when new entries come in.

I absolutely adore this. I still have my parents giant bowl of match books from the 1980s of all the hot restaurants in New York.

acquiring those.

collect obscure, odd items. This is a collection of matchbooks, although not real matchbooks. It is a painting of matchbooks that I would love to have hanging in my house. It is from a house in Colorado. ...