Jon's Hobby Collections

Vintage kerosene stoves are good collectible items and are very rare to come by these days as specially those in very good unused condition. Kerosene stove are popular back in the 60s and 70s where it is use as an alternative cooking appliances besides charcoal stove. When cooking using gas became popular in the 80s, kerosene stove and charcoal stove began to slowly extinct. The working mechanism of this kerosene stove is similar to the kerosene lamp. The liquid kerosene is draw from a tank and transfer up to the burner which is located at the top via a wick. This wick is normally made from a material which have high absorption like cotton. One must lit the wick in order to start the fire on the stove. Immediately after starting the fire, the liquid kerosene will then turn into vapour which soon burns which creates more flame. The lever which is located in the center functions to adjust the height of the wick by lowering it or raising it. When the lever is pushed all th

Who here likes to collect free items? I bet everyone of us certainly do ! As I observe over the years, I found out that cups are always being given free when you make a purchase of the sponsored products. Normally it will be toothpaste brands such as Darlie or Colgate which always give out free cups. I am very sure that some of us are willing to buy the toothpaste or other products specially to get the cup. For me as a vintage collector, I seldom collect cups. Even I do collect, it will be those vintage cups or glasses. I do collect wine glasses and also mugs. Here is a small part of my collection, you are actually only seeing 1/5 of this collection. The other 4/5 part of this collection will be share with you guys another time.

Currently there is a new Pokemon Pikachu commemorative notes which got launched in the market recently. Today, I finally got my hands on one of these beautiful collector piece. With only 1000 sets produced, these notes are a wonderful collector item for those Pokemon lovers out there. There is also a very unique feature of these commemorative set and that is, these piece comes with a security thread on the white area of the note, where the thread can only be seen under a UV detector. Unfortunately, I didn't have a UV detector with me now, or not I can show you, how the thread image looks like under UV rays. This set comes with a cover which tells us interesting details about our favourite cartoon character, Pikachu. Besides that, these notes are for collecting purpose only and there is no legal tender. I bought my this set at a price tag of 12 SGD. I believed that these notes are printed in Malaysia as there was a selling price in Malaysia ringgit printed at the ba

I have a total of 8 velvet red packets. But I only have 2 different design. These velvet red packets are from OCBC Bank. Front view of the packets Back view of the packets These red packets are given to customers who did business banking with OCBC bank. I got all these as a gift from my dad and it has been quite long ago. Measuring 20 cm by 11 cm, these velvet red packets are actually quite big as compare to the other ordinarily red packets. Most of these velvet red packets I seen are use to decorate indoor plants during Chinese new year. All these 8 velvet red packets are brand new and not yet used before. Selling for 10$ each

How many of you out there still remember the VHS ? I bet some of you could remember !!! For me, I remember it is quite troublesome to use the VHS player as you need to clean the heads of the tape and player heads from time to time. I found this player in my aunt's old shop. Condition is new and it is not been used at all. It comes with the original box too. Sadly, the box is not in a very good shape as there was another box on top of this box. But over time, I believe not using the VHS players will actually bring in problems to the player itself. This VHS player have been left in the box for many years. Easily I think, this model is about 25 years old. This player also comes with a remote control, RCA wire and also an original manual. Without waiting, my curiosity brought me to another level to test out the product. First, I opened up the player to check whether are there any rust or dust inside before plugging it to an electrical plug. To my surprise