Do you own any Death collectables?

[Jerseysucks]

I love true crime and one of the oddest things I own is a Silver Dollar once owned by murder victim Ted Binion.
Quite a few years ago this guy Binion whose father Benny started Binions Horseshoe Casino in Vegas one of the older casinos out there.
He had a very large coin stash and hired somebody to build him a vault in the dessert in Pahrump Nevada where he had 6 tons of silver bullion, Horseshoe Casino chips, paper currency and more than 100,000 silver coins.
The guy who built the vault and Binions girlfriend murdered him and made it look like a drug overdose.

[Jack-O-Lantern]

I'm jealous of your Binion dollar Jersey!
I have a piece of coal that went down on the Titanic, and a piece of the brick fireplace from the home (10050 Cielo Dr.) where Sharon Tate was murdered (thanks Scott!).
I would LOVE to have a whole collection of this stuff, but my friends already think I'm disturbed...

[Jerseysucks]

I'm jealous of your Binion dollar Jersey!
I have a piece of coal that went down on the Titanic, and a piece of the brick fireplace from the home (10050 Cielo Dr.) where Sharon Tate was murdered (thanks Scott!).
I would LOVE to have a whole collection of this stuff, but my friends already think I'm disturbed...

It's not all that expensive in EBAY. All you do is go to coins and paper money/us/silver dollars and just type in Binion or do a search on all coins because like it says the man had over 100,000.
One little coin can't hold a candle to a pice of brick from Sharon Tates house.
I'm afraid to check out Scotts stuff.

[marimbagirl]

I have glass from the Murrah Building in OKC. I went there just after the explosion had taken place and took some shards that were in the parking lot under my feet. I was 10 too. I had what you would call foresight.

[FannyB1923]

I have a tombstone in the backyard.

It's a marble cross and I found it under a pile of leaves when we moved in. I'd try to return it, but there's no engraving. There are lots of little church cemeteries in this area, so no idea who's missing it. Or perhaps nobody is missing it, since this property used to be the front of a farm. Maybe there's a family plot nobody told us about!

If we ever sell the house, I think I'll take it to the Historical Society and let them do research!

[aedgar5000]

I have a piece of brick from the 10050 Cielo fireplace, as well! My sister is quite jealous. Once again, Thanks Scott.

[aedgar5000]

Clearly the Peoples Temple donations went to a worthy cause.

[Valentino009]

My aunt works at the Vacaville state prison administration offices and she got me a Get Out of Jail Free card from a Monopoly game signed by Charles Manson. It was a christmas gift back in the 80s sometime. Its somewhere in one of the boxes in my storage unit.

That's is too awesome!!!

[Crazy Cat Lady]

My aunt works at the Vacaville state prison administration offices and she got me a Get Out of Jail Free card from a Monopoly game signed by Charles Manson. It was a christmas gift back in the 80s sometime. Its somewhere in one of the boxes in my storage unit.

A guy I work with has two boxes of unused donation envelopes from Jim Jones's Peoples Temple in San Francisco. I've been asking for a few of them for a while but so far he keeps saying maybe later. He bought them at a swap meet cheap in the late 70s

He could probably make some money selling those donation envelopes on eBay. I recently watched two QSL cards from Jonestown residents get bid up into three figures each.

[RaRaRamona]

I have sand from Normandy beach. When I think of how many men died...it's very humbling.

[Forever-27]

He finally gave it to me today. The dude at work is retiring and gave me the Jim Jones Donation envelope to The Peoples Temple circa 1978. His wife hates it and supposedly im the only one with any intrest for it.

Great Souviner, I Love it !

I have faith ill find that charles manson autograph soon. Its in my storage unit packed away in a box somewhere

[Wendy A.]

He finally gave it to me today. The dude at work is retiring and gave me the Jim Jones Donation envelope to The Peoples Temple circa 1978. His wife hates it and supposedly im the only one with any intrest for it.

Great Souviner, I Love it !

I have faith ill find that charles manson autograph soon. Its in my storage unit packed away in a box somewhere

Too cool! Does it smell like Grape kool-aid?

[aLiLdirt]

Forever-27, that's fantastic! Death-phemera...

In situations like this, I wish a FAD forum 'like' button existed.

[MinLynn]

That's awesome! I would love to have one of those envelopes. I have yet to collect anything death-haggy just because I haven't come across anything. I really want a piece of the Tate fireplace and have contemplated that for a while. Other than that I just don't think anything has popped up that I'd really really want.

[atomicbettie]

I have a kernel of corn from Buddy Holly's crash site.

[Forever-27]

This has been on a guys at works desk as long as I've been coming out here. That's over six years. Next to his familys pics pens and pencils. He got it decades ago at a swap meet. He had three, sold one, ebayed one and I got his last. As he was cleaning his desk , he gave it to me. I'm gonna get a plexiglass frame and put it on my wall next to my Janis Joplin poster. Years of being inside the protective plastic sleeve have fused the envelope closed. I took it out for the picture , but the envelope is sealed shut. Nothing inside.

1978 was a rough year for San Francisco. The whole jonestown massacre at the hands of a ' servant of god ' and just a few days later mayor George Moscone was shot with supervisor Harvey Milk.

The crime Jim Jones did is so heinas that he will always be remembered. The pastor that went psycho and forced sum 400 people to drink the poison punch in the name of god, and his goons shot US Congressman Leo Ryan right on the airport tarmac along with I think an nbc news crew and jackie Speir , Leo Ryans aid. She's a congresswoman herself today, I think she was the only one that lived.

[MinLynn]

Add a little framed package of Grape Flavor-Aid next to it! Well, at least I would just because my humor is so morbid. ESPECIALLY if I could find a circa 1978 package of grape Flavor-Aid!

[Forever-27]

Now that's a smart idea.

They sell thoes small one batch packages of kool-aid. Lol adding it to the framed envelope is a novel idea. Minlynn your a hell of a woman to think of that. A girl with humor !

[Rosebud666]

Now that's a smart idea.

They sell thoes small one batch packages of kool-aid. Lol adding it to the framed envelope is a novel idea. Minlynn your a hell of a woman to think of that. A girl with humor !

A super idea. But yes, in the interest of historical authenticity, Flavor-Aid would be preferable. Maybe you could even find someone with some new old stock from the proper time period through your connections at work.

[Buttercup]

That's awesome! I would love to have one of those envelopes. I have yet to collect anything death-haggy just because I haven't come across anything. I really want a piece of the Tate fireplace and have contemplated that for a while. Other than that I just don't think anything has popped up that I'd really really want.

I finally got a piece of the fireplace from Scott a while ago. It's my first "death" collectible. It's a bigger piece than I thought. Pretty cool.

Love that envelope Forever27!!

[Joee]

We used to own a rifle taken off a dead Japanese soldier on Iwo Jima. My step father, who took the rifle, would often comment he wondered how many Marines that rifle killed.
Unfortunately the rifle got burned in a housefire.

[GEM]

Burial flag from a relative's casket.

[Jerseysucks]

When my mother died in Sept she was cremated. It takes forever in Florida with all the steps they have to do. I asked to have the ashes split up so they wouldn't give me any trouble on the plane they gave me some of her ashes in a small velvet pouch with a certificate of cremation. I've never heard of it. Cool item horrible situation to see my moms name on it.

[theotherlondon]

Have some stuff from the Dionne Quintuplets
(only two are alive) and they are both Nuns.

[Forever-27]

Aside from the Jim Jones donation envelope, I kept the newspaper from the day Michael Jackson died. I had hoped to one day sell it, but for some reason I kept it. I didn't like his music and always thought he was a deranged pervert. Also I kept the newspaper from the day Ronnie James Dio died of stomache cancer. I did enjoy HIS music a lot.

Btw minlynn, Flavor-Aid is still around. I found some on ebay. Honestly I've never seen it in the stores. When I get this framed ill put up a picture of it

[cash]

I have an original ( Sept 1964) copy of the Warren Commission Report. It belonged to my uncle a retired RCMP officer. I treasure it.

[MinLynn]

Btw minlynn, Flavor-Aid is still around. I found some on ebay. Honestly I've never seen it in the stores. When I get this framed ill put up a picture of it

WOOT! That's awesome! I knew they still made Flavor-Aid. In fact, I think they even sell it in the stores around me if I'm not mistaken. Glad I offered some comical advice for the envelope. It's so nice to talk to people who don't find my humor and interests completely repulsive!

[MinLynn]

Hate to double post but I just thought of something! My husband's great uncle was one of the creators of the atomic bomb. His family still has all his papers, etc. locked away for safe keeping and his uncle was even buried in Arlington Cemetery due to his status with the bomb. Would his stuff be considered death haggy?

[JimC]

I have a Timex watch that my father cut from the wrist of a dead Japanese soldier during WWII.

It has a red, white and blue cloth wrist band with little spots of what appear to be dried blood or something "rust colored" on it.

He said he knew that the Japanese soldier had probably taken it from a dead American; so he took it back.

I haven't looked at it in a few years, but the last time I wound it up slightly, it still worked.

[Wendy A.]

Hate to double post but I just thought of something! My husband's great uncle was one of the creators of the atomic bomb. His family still has all his papers, etc. locked away for safe keeping and his uncle was even buried in Arlington Cemetery due to his status with the bomb. Would his stuff be considered death haggy?

Yep, I'd think so. It also falls under the category of totally fuckin' awesome!

[MinLynn]

Well, cool then! When he died we were invited to go through his house before the estate sale and snag what we wanted. We just grabbed some silly stuff like his two travel bars. The guy was loaded and even once owned a car from the movie Tora! Tora! Tora!. I don't know which one as I've never seen the movie. I think his son now has it or they auctioned it off. We had contemplated buying his house as it was gorgeous and still perfectly decorated in that high end 60's style but it was only 2 bedrooms and we needed a larger house for our kids. We'll probably never get to see those military papers but it is cool to know they exist in the family.

[Forever-27]

Took my lazy ass long enough but I got a frame for the envelope today. it now hangs on my wall.
I got too frustrated looking for grape aid so for now kool aid wil have to do

[cindyt]

I have a third of my mama's ashes in a little marble urn that sits on my dresser.

[Wendy A.]

Took my lazy ass long enough but I got a frame for the envelope today. it now hangs on my wall.
I got too frustrated looking for grape aid so for now kool aid wil have to do

OH YEAH! (couldn't resist!) Dude, that is freakin' awesome! When you said you couldn't find the flavor aid crap they drank, I went on ebay, and didn't have any luck. If I ever see any in a vintage package you can bet I'll grab it and send it your way!

[Forever-27]

I got this a few days back from work. It is the front page from the Wichita Beacon newspaper. Dated sunday Janurary 22, 1933. Like many other outlaws of the 1920s and 1930s Charles " Pretty Boy " Floyd made a career robbing banks and shooting police officers. Mainly in Oklaholma , Texas and Kansas , after robbing the bank hed burn the bank down thus burning morguage papers of thousands of people whod otherwise have their farms and homes foreclosed on during the depths of the Great Depression. the paper interviews 2 police officers who lived threw one of his gunfights after robbing a bank. Pictured is the governor of Oklaholma signing a declaration offering 1000 dollars for Floyds capture , dead or alive.

[tarsier]

I have a tombstone in the backyard.

It's a marble cross and I found it under a pile of leaves when we moved in. I'd try to return it, but there's no engraving. There are lots of little church cemeteries in this area, so no idea who's missing it. Or perhaps nobody is missing it, since this property used to be the front of a farm. Maybe there's a family plot nobody told us about!

If we ever sell the house, I think I'll take it to the Historical Society and let them do research!

Several older homes in my community have found headstones in their yards. They were "mistakes" from undertakers in the late 1800s people could buy the cheap for landscaping purposes. Or it could have ben family plot my Great Grandfather left a pile of them by tree when he cleared the front forty f he family farm

[MaxyMillions]

I have some fingerprint cards from the 1940's all the way to the 80's. I live in a southern city, so some of the descriptions of the offenders are actually offensive. It appears that once a person was arrested, any further crimes were just added to the original card, so a few were rather lengthy.

I also have my Sharon Tate fireplace rock, which is tastefully displayed with color crime scene photos of the fireplace prominently figuring in the scenes.

My newest acquisition is a button that says :

Deputy Floor Warder
World Trade Center
Fire Safety Team
The button is in blue, with a drawing of the Twin Towers in the background.
My mom thinks the button is too soon, but she sure loved it when I gave her a Sharon Tate rock and pics!