Name your most precious collectible [Archive]

LinNJoe

05-31-2006, 09:09 PM

In looking over the shelf of collectible stuff we have at home, it makes us wonder which bottle(s) would you place your highest value on, and why? :?:

We'll start...

Our two earliest collectibles, the Blair 4am Reserve and Dave's Insanity Private Reserve 1996, are ones we picked up almost by accident. The Dave's 1996 PR apparently had the smallest production amount, so we've heard, of any of the early editions of the coffin-ed reserves and the 4am was bought from Blair himself in Albuquerque back in '01.

Your faves??

John S.

05-31-2006, 09:52 PM

The Defcon Zero batch one that I haven't opened yet, for me. Getting in on that train early and doing a review on HSB before the mania really got going was pretty sweet. Especially since I got to open one and still have another on the shelf.

INCaneFan

06-01-2006, 01:23 AM

I'd say it's my 1 of 1 from CaJohn.

Mandy, my significant other, worked it out with CaJohn to get me a prototype bottle that he only had one of and wasn't going to ever go into production.

I got it for an anniversary gift and it's called Romeo!

Closely following that is my Light You Up by CaJohn. Since I started collecting in Dec/Jan of this past year, it was the one bottle I wanted more than any other. He happened to have one on him when I met him at the Indiana Hotluck event. Also at that event Jim Campbell showed me his latest creation that's not out there yet for sale so he passed me one basically giving me the first one!

chiliman

06-01-2006, 08:30 AM

My bottle of 97 Daves Reserve which has been happily ingested and used to make astounding chili. I know, it's not an official collectable unless it's on a shelf or something, but over the time I've enjoyed that one bottle more than any other and with the lot of us that's a bunch of bottles.

Ryan Bell

06-01-2006, 11:57 AM

Rarest I guess would be Defcon Zero Batch 1, #118.

Most coveted would be my Blair's N-59 Reserve #3/59. :)

EDIT: My most coveted is Le Million #1.

bubbaschili

06-01-2006, 12:32 PM

hate to say but my fav item i got is not hot sauce related. i got a 4 foot tall rt-d2 beer cooler.
if he would just move around like the real r2 that would be cool. but he just stands there holding my beer cold.

DEFCON Creator

06-01-2006, 01:13 PM

Now THAT's cool (no pun intended)

sweatnspice

06-01-2006, 02:06 PM

A happy birthday bottle direct from Blair - 1/1

thakswet

06-02-2006, 03:19 PM

Blair's #1 3am.

imaguitargod

06-02-2006, 03:39 PM

Dan@BLP Labels

06-02-2006, 03:57 PM

I don't collect Hot Sauces but my favorite collectible is my Vintage Speed Racer tin lunch box from when I was kid.

Tina Brooks

06-02-2006, 04:14 PM

I recently started a collection of funky tree frogs... but I don't expect them to ever be considered "valuable". I used to own a 24K gold Beatles' Abbey Road album but it melted in our house fire.

T

imaguitargod

06-02-2006, 04:29 PM

I used to own a 24K gold Beatles' Abbey Road album but it melted in our house fire.
:cry: :cry: :cry:

LinNJoe

06-02-2006, 07:40 PM

Hot Sauce: Defcon #1(opened and in use :twisted: )
Comic Book: Incredible Hulk #181 (worth over $1,000)
Authentic Movie Prop: either my CARTER J. BURKE CARD from Aliens( http://www.mulletman.org/images/card1.jpg ), or my Wolverine Claws( http://www.mulletman.org/images/claws1.jpg )

Sword: Sword of Odin ( http://www.mulletman.org/images/evilsword1.jpg )

Your non-hot sauce collectibles definitely outs you as a serious sci-fi/fantasy geek. Unlike most, I use the word geek as a term of endearment...because I am most definitely one as well. From my signed Peter Davison picture as the fifth Doctor Who to my collection of old (many out of print) role-playing games to my ever-growing collection of board & strategy games, I'm firmly in that same mold as well. Heck, I even still make it to GenCon or Origins every year just to get my geek schwerve on!

If I could just get that Duncan Macleod sword from the Highlander TV series...

- Joe

Tina Brooks

06-03-2006, 01:52 PM

Your non-hot sauce collectibles definitely outs you as a serious sci-fi/fantasy geek. Unlike most, I use the word geek as a term of endearment...because I am most definitely one as well. From my signed Peter Davison picture as the fifth Doctor Who to my collection of old (many out of print) role-playing games to my ever-growing collection of board & strategy games, I'm firmly in that same mold as well. Heck, I even still make it to GenCon or Origins every year just to get my geek schwerve on!

If I could just get that Duncan Macleod sword from the Highlander TV series...

- Joe

OMG... Joe, you're going to love me.

Christmas before last, I gave a handmade filleting knife to Greg. It was made by the one and only person who made the very sword you covet.

Would you like an introduction???

T

imaguitargod

06-03-2006, 02:24 PM

If I could just get that Duncan Macleod sword from the Highlander TV series...
Own it(replica, 43 in. overall, 28 in. sharpened 440 stainless steel blade):
http://www.mulletman.org/images/highlandersword1.jpg

If anyone is interested, you can check out all my props at http://www.mulletman.org/props.html

Come one, coma all...see the amazing Recalled Spider-Man poster, or the Preditor Bio-Mask...or lay your eyes on the fantastic towel from the first X-Men film which can acutally be seen briefly in the film...

Yep, I was born a geek(not a nerd, but a geek) and will always remain a geek...

Oh ya, forgot to add another nice collectable that I own, an original 1931 Hawaiian Pog!!!!!

Tina Brooks

06-03-2006, 02:53 PM

Ok, I'll bite... what's a Hawaiian Pog?

imaguitargod

06-03-2006, 03:26 PM

Ok, I'll bite... what's a Hawaiian Pog?
Hawaii is where Pogs firt appeard... for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogs

Tina Brooks

06-03-2006, 03:38 PM

Hawaii is where Pogs firt appeard... for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogs

Wow... I didn't realize that Pogs were retro!

T

imaguitargod

06-03-2006, 04:29 PM

Wow... I didn't realize that Pogs were retro!

T
Cool, huh?

Tina Brooks

06-03-2006, 04:30 PM

Cool, huh?

rather.

lol

LinNJoe

06-03-2006, 07:37 PM

OMG... Joe, you're going to love me.

Christmas before last, I gave a handmade filleting knife to Greg. It was made by the one and only person who made the very sword you covet.

Would you like an introduction???

T
:onfire::onfire::onfire:

Suffice to say, the answer is yes. Maybe he has a few extras just laying around that he doesn't want...:lol:

I have this odd notion of one of these swords being mounted on the wall here and my eldest son taking it down one day and saying to the younger boy,

"In the end, there can be only one..."

You know the rest. Flashes of lightning. House being lifted off its foundation. Lots of other special effects.

DEFCON Creator

06-03-2006, 08:32 PM

"You know the rest. Flashes of lightning. House being lifted off its foundation. Lots of other special effects."

Sounds like my lab 3 nights out of the week, as I push the next ZERO btach to the next stage. The house being lifted off its foundation is my wife yelling, "Why couldn't you have picked something else to create that wouldn't burn my skin off?"

Tina Brooks

06-04-2006, 10:37 AM

:onfire::onfire::onfire:

Suffice to say, the answer is yes. Maybe he has a few extras just laying around that he doesn't want...:lol:

I have this odd notion of one of these swords being mounted on the wall here and my eldest son taking it down one day and saying to the younger boy,

"In the end, there can be only one..."

You know the rest. Flashes of lightning. House being lifted off its foundation. Lots of other special effects.

We're talking a real sword here... You do know that???

T

LinNJoe

06-04-2006, 11:36 AM

We're talking a real sword here... You do know that???

T

Yup. That's why I was suggesting I would have to make the case/mounting for it high up on the wall. Don't want any unintended quickenings in the house...:lol:

I've seen that sword in Highlander merchandise catalogs I've received in the mail before...but never knew who might be behind their making.

Tina Brooks

06-04-2006, 11:50 AM

Yup. That's why I was suggesting I would have to make the case/mounting for it high up on the wall. Don't want any unintended quickenings in the house...:lol:

I've seen that sword in Highlander merchandise catalogs I've received in the mail before...but never knew who might be behind their making.

The fellow's name is Eric Seguin... He is from Quebec. I have his business card in my office.

I warn you though... He doesn't speak a word of English. Hopefully he has someone working with him to handle english enquiries.

T

Tina Brooks

06-04-2006, 11:51 AM

Oh btw... if it isn't signed "Seguin....", it isn't an original.

imaguitargod

06-04-2006, 01:43 PM

You know the rest. Flashes of lightning. House being lifted off its foundation. Lots of other special effects.
Listen, if your son can create special effects on command via a Quickening...I say let the boys have fun and don't forget to charge admission...

Tina Brooks

06-05-2006, 10:28 AM

Ummm, Jonathan, you've seen the movies... Doesn't the Quickening involve a beheading???

DEFCON Creator

06-05-2006, 10:46 AM

Only in the movies, in real life the house just shakes.

imaguitargod

06-05-2006, 11:36 AM

Ummm, Jonathan, you've seen the movies... Doesn't the Quickening involve a beheading???
I know... :twisted:

ChefEx

06-05-2006, 04:58 PM

Oh btw... if it isn't signed "Seguin....", it isn't an original.
Checked out his site! WOW. Being a chef a have a bit of a fetish for sharp bladey things. I normally go for Japanese blades, but his look real nice. There can be only one...

Tina Brooks

06-10-2006, 02:55 PM

My Peppermaster is a chef too, so buying him gifts, as you know, is an exercise in difficult to the extreme. So Seguin's work was a godsend to me. As beautiful as they look, you should know too, that their balance is absolutely perfect.

If you are going to buy a proper bladey thing... This truly is the man to buy them from.

darthcarl

06-11-2006, 03:40 AM

There can be only one.

imaguitargod

06-11-2006, 12:28 PM

There can be only one.

Only "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."

:twisted:

Tina Brooks

06-13-2006, 08:56 PM

Only "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."

:twisted:

Bladey things... not precioussssss sssssparkley thingssssss.

Sheesssssssh. Try to keep up, Jon.

staffing

07-05-2006, 08:05 AM

I've got #34 of Blair's 1st Halloween series (of 99) from 2004.

I've got a bottle of Defcon's zero, but have eaten most of it....and wrote a review of it somewhere in here. Oops. I couldn't resist, and he (the creator) sent to me for that purpose. No regrets. Great sauce.