- So Tim, I suspect your story goes back to your childhood.

Talk about how you started collecting.

- My first piece that I got was this, this Lone ranger.

These are all Heartland toys, kind of your first action figures.

And that was the first one I got when I was probably about four years old.

So it was back in maybe 52, 53.

And I never played with it.

All I did was put it up on my shelf and I just kind of kept it.

And since I am a nut about stuff that led to more lone Rangers, more totos co chiefs, gun smoke, wagon train, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, all these different, different ones.

And so I just started to collect in those, and that's that.

And I'm still kind of collecting them.

I've got most, but there are a few that I don't have, but they're so expensive.

They're just outta my league.

I am, unfortunately, I'm not really a collector.

I'm more of a, it's worse.

I'm a completer because when I get one of something, then I have to finish the collection, you know?

And so I, yeah, I'm a collector, but I'm a more of a completer, which is a psychological problem.

William Boyd hop on Cassidy was a huge, huge promoter back in the early fifties, maybe even the late forties.

And he was the very first one to have lunchboxes, any kinda lunchboxes with somebody's name or advertising on them.

So these are the, these are the two, the blue and the red one first ever.

This is not extremely rare, but it's fairly rare lunchbox.

It's my most expensive one.

It's a lone ranger.

I don't have the thermos for it.

But isn't it cool about 19 54, 53, again, talking about some, a couple of my favorite things.

I love this big poster of Roy Rogers and everybody, and not only for the fact that he signed it here, but what's really cool is that trigger signed it.

Now, how often do you have a horse sign?

That's pretty impressive.

My grandkids stay here.

This is their, where they usually sleep when they're here.

And I always tell 'em, don't get scared, because Roy Rogers is here to protect him if anything happens.

This came from what Anita's good friend's sister back about 1951 or 52, won a coloring contest at horn blockers.

And this was her gift that she won for winning the coloring contest, the Hornbacher Grocery Store in Redwood Falls.

So Doug, I, I know you have to leave, but we did talk about our Crocs before, and so I just wanted to kind of show you some of the Crocs that we have.

These are, of course, they're all red wing.

These are the birch leaf and elephant ears.

They were made before Red Wing started putting their red wing on their Crocs.

Yeah.

Over here we've got Red wing Crocs, they have the red wing on 'em, and we go from one gallon up to 30 gallons.

The crock itself isn't hard to find, depending on what size you want, the tops, the covers are worth more than the Crocs.

So this cover is worth more than the whole crock is.

Wow.

Because they all got broken.

Yep, yep.

What they would do is, because, you know, they'd fill 'em with water or whatever, and they'd take a hammer and they'd hammer out part of it and then put the lale in.

Well, when you, when you broke, broke pot already.

So they all got broken.

And then when, when you really have a good one, it has a number on the top.

So you know that this was the 20 for that 20.

So anyway, y you know, if you're in Minnesota, you gotta have a, gotta have at least one crock.