tim71
#1I've posted a couple topics that I've wondered about for a while.
Were any of you kids when you started collecting? I was probably 10 or so. At that age it was just the toy ones to start but I rolled on from there. Sometimes I can't figure out where I got the collector bug. My parents were always super-straight arrows, pretty much no hobbys and they didn't have a lot of money so collecting took effort. But from a kid I've always loved collecting things and my small but growing handcuff collection was always my most enjoyable.
I remember the plastic ones were first - you know that ones that had the little hole for a paper clip if you lost the keys - then I got a pair of metal toy ones that didn't use keys and were kinda small. Then, and I'll never forget it, at Kay-bee toys while on vacation I saw a pair of takeda style cuffs in a gray box in the display case. My parents bought them for me and when we got back to the hotel I compared them with the other 2 sets that I brought along. Those were my first ones that were strong enough to not be able to break them even though they had the safety latch.
I showed them off to my little cousin (the kind who always gets everything he wants) and as usual he outdid me. His dad bought him some S&W handcuffs from a retired cop. First time I did get to see some real ones though. Later on at a gun shop, I saw the S&W model 90 handcuffs with that neat old box and put that one my Christmas wish list. I got them when I was 11 or 12 for Christmas and the bliss went to a new level.
Kinda leveled off from there until I got a job as an adult and she's slowly took off from there.
Why did I ramble on about this? Maybe just to help myself recollect, don't know. I've never understood where I picked this interest up at. Before the internet, I would have thought I was the only one in the world who collected stuff like this. I guess I'm curious to if anyone else got the bug as early as I did.
Oh yeah, anybody got any pics of the boxes of the old Takeda style cuffs? I don't have that gray box from a kid and would like to see what it looked like or the original takedas for that matter.
Tim
Were any of you kids when you started collecting? I was probably 10 or so. At that age it was just the toy ones to start but I rolled on from there. Sometimes I can't figure out where I got the collector bug. My parents were always super-straight arrows, pretty much no hobbys and they didn't have a lot of money so collecting took effort. But from a kid I've always loved collecting things and my small but growing handcuff collection was always my most enjoyable.
I remember the plastic ones were first - you know that ones that had the little hole for a paper clip if you lost the keys - then I got a pair of metal toy ones that didn't use keys and were kinda small. Then, and I'll never forget it, at Kay-bee toys while on vacation I saw a pair of takeda style cuffs in a gray box in the display case. My parents bought them for me and when we got back to the hotel I compared them with the other 2 sets that I brought along. Those were my first ones that were strong enough to not be able to break them even though they had the safety latch.
I showed them off to my little cousin (the kind who always gets everything he wants) and as usual he outdid me. His dad bought him some S&W handcuffs from a retired cop. First time I did get to see some real ones though. Later on at a gun shop, I saw the S&W model 90 handcuffs with that neat old box and put that one my Christmas wish list. I got them when I was 11 or 12 for Christmas and the bliss went to a new level.
Kinda leveled off from there until I got a job as an adult and she's slowly took off from there.
Why did I ramble on about this? Maybe just to help myself recollect, don't know. I've never understood where I picked this interest up at. Before the internet, I would have thought I was the only one in the world who collected stuff like this. I guess I'm curious to if anyone else got the bug as early as I did.
Oh yeah, anybody got any pics of the boxes of the old Takeda style cuffs? I don't have that gray box from a kid and would like to see what it looked like or the original takedas for that matter.
Tim
