Show us your Lincoln collectables!

[L Verge]

You can? How come I can’t see it using my ohone I wonder?

It showed on both my screen at home and the one at work.

[LincolnMan]

Weird!

[Thomas Kearney]

Nowadays, 3D Printers can make various items from toy cars to prosthetic hands. But back in the 1960's, Mold A Rama machines were the predecessor to 3D Printers. For a couple dollars, you could make a plastic figure of an animal or a car and take it home with you. The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI has 10 of these machines and one features a bust of Abraham Lincoln:

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2XK...earborn_MI

I've had mine since 2008 and keep it on my desk at home.

[Anita]

Weird!

I can see it also and can relate to " so ugly it's cute." I think many felt that way when they met Lincoln.

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Nowadays, 3D Printers can make various items from toy cars to prosthetic hands. But back in the 1960's, Mold A Rama machines were the predecessor to 3D Printers. For a couple dollars, you could make a plastic figure of an animal or a car and take it home with you. The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI has 10 of these machines and one features a bust of Abraham Lincoln:

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2XK...earborn_MI

I've had mine since 2008 and keep it on my desk at home.

Thomas, this is really cool. When I was young they didn't have such neat machines. The ones I knew flattened pennies thus elongating Lincoln's image.

[Thomas Kearney]

Weird!

I can see it also and can relate to " so ugly it's cute." I think many felt that way when they met Lincoln.

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Nowadays, 3D Printers can make various items from toy cars to prosthetic hands. But back in the 1960's, Mold A Rama machines were the predecessor to 3D Printers. For a couple dollars, you could make a plastic figure of an animal or a car and take it home with you. The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI has 10 of these machines and one features a bust of Abraham Lincoln:

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2XK...earborn_MI

I've had mine since 2008 and keep it on my desk at home.

Thomas, this is really cool. When I was young they didn't have such neat machines. The ones I knew flattened pennies thus elongating Lincoln's image.

check out pennycollector.com. Lincoln appears on this classic souvenir at Ford's Theater, Gettysburg, the White House, Smithsonian, Henry Ford Museum, and of course, Springfield. I check the locations tool before I travel to see if I can find any souvenir pennies to bring home.

The Mold A Rama machine costs $3 and is located at the back of the exhibit With Liberty And Justice For All in the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.

[LincolnMan]

I have several of the Lincoln wax molds from the Henry Ford. I always liked the smell of them!

[Thomas Kearney]

I have several of the Lincoln wax molds from the Henry Ford. I always liked the smell of them!

there's something about that beautiful Mold A Rama smell that makes me feel good. Now that I'm a 2 hour drive from The Henry Ford, I can add to my collection, I just need the Model T and Henry Ford statue plus the Santa and Christmas Tree molds they have during the holidays.

All this show your Lincoln collectables stuff is inspiring me to use Collecting Lincoln as a subject for 1 of 3 talk i have to give in Public Speaking this fall.

[RJNorton]

http://time.com/5374700/abraham-lincoln-hair-auction/

[Eva Elisabeth]

But that hair is BLONDE, no?!

[LincolnMan]

I have several of the Lincoln wax molds from the Henry Ford. I always liked the smell of them!

there's something about that beautiful Mold A Rama smell that makes me feel good. Now that I'm a 2 hour drive from The Henry Ford, I can add to my collection, I just need the Model T and Henry Ford statue plus the Santa and Christmas Tree molds they have during the holidays.

All this show your Lincoln collectables stuff is inspiring me to use Collecting Lincoln as a subject for 1 of 3 talk i have to give in Public Speaking this fall.

I love that I am not the only one that like the smell. But then again- I like the smell of gasoline too! When I was young and living in Detroit there were some retail stores that had those machines in the entryways. I bought my first JFK mold at one of those stores.

[Juan Marrero]

Juan, I second Toia. It is possible to upload photos (low resolution) through the forum software, but it's also OK to send me the photos via email file attachment. I can then upload them to my server and post them for you.

Hello Mr. Norton, it has been a long time since I listed and described my Lincoln collectables, but I never got around to sending you the photos you requested. I apologize!

What email address should I use if you are still interested?

Hopefully, during the last twelve years I have developed the computer skills necessary to send photos. That is a low bar, I know.

Thank you for your patience!

[RJNorton]

Juan sent some photos from his collection. Here they are:

Abraham Lincoln Note

Mary Lincoln Letter

Book Signed By Mary Lincoln

Charles Leale and Harry Hawk Notes

Thank you, Juan!

[Anita]

Juan,
Thank you for sharing these treasures from your Lincoln collection! The note signed by Lincoln is extra-special because of the connection to Lincoln's "closest neighbors in Springfield" and that is was written on the first day of the Battle of Hampton Roads. The book signed by Mary Lincoln would sit on my nightstand! What is the title of the book?

How long have you been collecting?

[Juan Marrero]

Anita, thank you for your kind response. The book is "Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes" by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. He was well regarded in his time, but probably best known today for beginning one of his novels with "it was a dark and stormy night." When I bought the book, I was told that it had been donated by Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith for a charity auction.

I was also informed by the Lincoln Library staff that AL's note is the only known instance when he used the phrase "one of my nearest neighbors." It's believed that Lincoln was likely referring to one of the Kent boys who lived on his block--either James or Josiah.

I have had the collecting bug ever since I can remember. I seem to focus on the mid 19th century. If I had money to burn, the autograph I would seek is Emily Dickinson's. A note written by her went for over $30,000 at auction not too long ago. It comes down to scarcity and demand.

[Thomas Lapsley]

I seem to have trouble trying to post an image of on of my Lincoln collectibles.