If my husband, Larry Jamison, had one of something, he typically had more than 5 of the same thing. I thought he was a "Collector", but in this example of his 9 transistor radios, all but one of which don't work anymore, I'd say he was simply a "saver" of items. Rather than throw them away, he threw them into a drawer! Larry followed his mother's pattern of listening to a radio throughout the night. Here's the bunch of radios in his nightstand at the time of his death. The one he used is at the bottom left.
Watches were something else Larry hung on to! The watch he was wearing was at the right end of the first row.
Larry was a very devout Christian and faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was prepared to offer anyone who might be interested in a new copy of The Book of Mormon, with this collection of 26. It's a good thing we have a lot of bookcases in our house!
Larry's father owned the Harmonica at the top left of this photo below. And that's all it took for Larry to gather a collection of harmonicas! Those lined up on the right were provided by my father, Ernest Margheim. I don't know where he got them.
There are more collections (Bibles, Cameras, Binoculars etc) but I didn't have time today to assemble them and photograph them. So there's much more to come!
Thus is so great! I knew he liked to keep items, but had no idea of these treasures!! Amazing!
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