LiveAuctionTalk com Highlights Fine Points of Collecting in its Weekly Free Article
Released on = March 26, 2007, 3:11 pm
Press Release Author = Rosemary McKittrick
Industry = Internet & Online
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Press Release Body = March 26, 2007--Whether it's the dog-eared baseball cards you still have stashed under the bed or the Barbie dolls you tucked away in the attic, collecting is fun and most people come by it naturally.
If you're one of those folks who are straddling the fence and can't decide where to begin, think about collecting what you love. That's the advice I've heard most from collectors and experts in the field.
It was a love of scrimshaw that hooked President John F. Kennedy on collecting. It was a passion for paperweights that fueled the French writer Colette's glass collection. The British writer George Bernard Shaw amassed cigar bands and once asked his American lawyer to get him a complete set of cigar bands printed in the U.S.
The passion to collect expands over time. The more you focus, the more you learn the important distinctions in a field.
Pick something. That's the beginning.
"The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home," Burt Reynolds said about his own collecting in "Architectural Digest."
Reynolds's comment speaks volumes about how artwork can change the look and feel of a room. Collectors learn what moves them. There is a physical, mental and visual experience that follows. It's hard to live without art once you get used to it. Paintings, sculpture, photography, and ceramics become old friends.
Collecting is not unlike eating peanuts. It's hard to stop once you get started.
Collecting also usually leads to specialization. Once you learn the good, better, best rule in a category, you know what to look for. The people I've seen who've been the most successful specialize.
Buy the best you can afford. That's another point I want to stress. It's much better to buy one good painting than five average ones. Money follows quality, and I'm talking good quality. This applies to almost everything I can think of.
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