The various items you can collect are innumerable. Below are a number of items that men — both young and old alike — have collected for generations. With collectibles, it’s almost always more fun (and valuable) to collect vintage and antique items rather than new items, because new items aren’t rare or unique. If something piques your interest, start some research and dig in!

• Alcohol (rare beer, whiskey, wine, etc.)
• Antique shaving supplies
• Art
• Autographs
• Badges (police, firemen, etc.)
• Beer cans/brewery collectibles
• Board games
• Books
• Business cards
• Campaign buttons
• Casino chips
• Challenge coins
• Cigar bands
• Cigar boxes
• Clocks
• Coin banks
• Coins
• Cologne bottles
• Comics
• Die-cast models (cars, farm equipment, military vehicles, etc.)
• Drink coasters
• Fishing lures
• Foreign money
• Fossils
• Fountain pens
• Guns
• Hats
• Journals
• Keychains
• Keys
• License plates
• Lighters
• Lunch boxes
• Magazines
• Maps/globes
• Marbles
• Matchbooks
• Mugs
• Musical instruments
• Neckties/bowties
• Oil cans
• Patches
• Photographs
• Playing cards
• Pocketknives
• Postcards
• Posters (concert, movie, etc.)
• Records
• Smoking pipes
• Souvenir spoons
• Sports cards
• Sports memorabilia
• Tin signs/advertisements
• Tools
• Toys
• Stamps
• Watches