World Collectors
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World Collectors
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After interviewing dozens of established and successful collectors on the subject of creating world-class collections, I've distilled the seven habits of highly successful collectors:
1. Patience. Effective collectors know the value of patience, and may, if need be, wait months or even years before acquiring a particularly rare and important specimen for their collection.
2. Persistence. Effective collectors have the fortitude to continually search and scour until they unearth (sometimes literally) an item to add to their collection.
3. Scholarship. Effective collectors know that knowledge is power in the world of collecting. It provides an edge that separates the expert collector from the rest of the field. Effective collectors become, in effect, experts on the subject of their collectible.
4. Understanding. Effective collectors understand that their collection may never be perfect or complete. The joy of collecting is in the gathering and studying of whatever it is they find fascinating and worthwhile.
5. Preservation. Effective collectors know that it is not what they have, but how well they take care of it that matters. Effective collectors think like archivists, and care for their treasures like a Brinks guard protects the cash coming out of a Vegas counting cage.
6. Internet Search Savvy. Effective collectors know the value of the Internet, and they have learned how to bend search engines to their will. Like Major Nelson summoning Barbara Eden from the bottle, they know how to use search engines to bring forth items they seeks.
7. Fraternity. Effective collectors reach out to others in the collecting community, and share their wisdom and knowledge freely. They understand that sharing their expertise is its own reward, and that by contributing to the knowledge base, they expand the availability of collectibles and increase the value of their collection.
This is what I've learned interviewing top collectors as the Webmaster for ephemera.
Copyright: Marty Weil, 2007
Marty Weil is the editor and publisher of http://www.ephemera.typepad.com a blog that explores the world of old paper. Visit http://www.ephemera.typepad.com to learn more about becoming a world-class collector.
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2006 World Series Collectors Edition - $41.99 2006 World Series Collectors Edition - |
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ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Collectors Box $8.99 ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Collectors Box |
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Arizona Diamondbacks: 2001 World Series Collectors - $39.99 Arizona Diamondbacks: 2001 World Series Collectors - |
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The Collectors $6.99 The Collectors |
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Stones of the World Collectors Kit $39.95 These Stones Are Gems! Kids will become "rock" stars as they learn everything about stones from around the globe. Stones of the World Collectors Kit includes 64 museum-quality gemstone specimens in 32 varieties (1 natural and 1 polished of each) shown side-by-side for fascinating comparisons. Stones include amethyst, tiger's-eye, lapis, crystal and more. Includes a fact-and-origin booklet with color photos and a heavy-duty sectioned storage and collection case. Ages 6+. |
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The Suicide Collectors $9.99 The Despair has plagued the earth for five years. Most of the world’s population has inexplicably died by its own hand, and the few survivors struggle to remain alive. A mysterious, shadowy group called the Collectors has emerged, inevitably appearing to remove the bodies of the dead. But in the crumbling state of Florida, a man named Norman takes an unprecedented stand against the Collectors, propelling him on a journey across North America. It’s rumored a scientist in Seattle is working on a cure for the Despair, but in a world ruled by death, it won’t be easy to get there. |
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Sex Collectors $16.99 Though you might not encounter the subject in Artforum or stumble across it at Sotheby's, the thriving business of erotica is a mixture of sophistication and seduction, an underground world of eccentric artists and serious collectors. In Sex Collectors, Geoff Nicholson hunts down an assortment of these obsessives around the world. From the Florida grandma with five million dollars' worth of sexual collectibles to Third Eye Blind's manager, who owns more than eighty thousand men's magazines, Nicholson celebrates these collectors and the occasionally beautiful, frequently bizarre, and always fascinating objects they have amassed. He accompanies Linda Lovelace, the star of Deep Throat, as she is taken on a tour of a collection devoted to her. Days spent in the Kinsey archives reveal the cultural artifacts resulting from the sexual awakening of public America, as well as boxes with labels such as "Phallus with Agricultural Tools" and "Scarf Trick when Folded." Nicholson journeys to Germany to visit with the legendary Karl-Ludwig Leonhardt, sex collector extraordinaire of first edition volumes such as Flagellation pour couples pervertis and Tender Bottoms, erotic Picassos, and notes handwritten by the Marquis de Sade. Throughout his exploration of some of the wildest collections in the world, Nicholson's discussion of collecting as an expression of self and psychology goes hand in hand with his gleeful discovery of the seventh giant phallus used in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Hitler's creepily erotic personalized bookplate, and a woman who has a plaster cast of Jimi Hendrix's penis. Sex Collectors is a winning story of one man's attempt to collect collectors, to reveal the neuroses that drive some people to collect, and to have good, dirty, high-minded fun while doing it. |
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m&m's Dominoes Collectors Edition $9.99 - Domino - der Klassiker einmal anders: Die m&ms Dominoes Collectors Edition ist ein besonderes Geschenk f�r alle Spielefans die beim Spielen auch noch gerne naschen. Geeignet f�r 1-4 Spieler. In der m&ms Dominoes Collectors Edition sind 28 Spielsteine, 1 Spielanleitung und 2 Packungen 45g m&ms Schokolinsenen enthalten. Die Bezeichnung m&ms steht f�r &8222 Mars & Murrie&8217 s&8220 nach Forrest Mars, dem Erfinder der m&ms und seinem Gesch�ftspartner Bruce Murrie. Sie wurden erstmals 1941 in den USA verkauft. Heute geh�ren m&ms zu den beliebtesten Knabberartikeln weltweit und schmecken immer noch genauso lecker und lustig wie vor �ber 60 Jahren. |
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The Skull Collectors $18 When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton’s skull wound up in a collector’s cabinet, for Morton himself had collected hundreds of skulls over the course of a long career. Friends, diplomats, doctors, soldiers, and fellow naturalists sent him skulls they gathered from battlefields and burial grounds across America and around the world. With The Skull Collectors , eminent historian Ann Fabian resurrects that popular and scientific movement, telling the strange—and at times gruesome—story of Morton, his contemporaries, and their search for a scientific foundation for racial difference. From cranial measurements and museum shelves to heads on stakes, bloody battlefields, and the “rascally pleasure” of grave robbing, Fabian paints a lively picture of scientific inquiry in service of an agenda of racial superiority, and of a society coming to grips with both the deadly implications of manifest destiny and the mass slaughter of the Civil War. Even as she vividly recreates the past, Fabian also deftly traces the continuing implications of this history, from lingering traces of scientific racism to debates over the return of the remains of Native Americans that are held by museums to this day. Full of anecdotes, oddities, and insights, The Skull Collectors takes readers on a darkly fascinating trip down a little-visited but surprisingly important byway of American history. |
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Us/world Collectors $11.65 No Synopsis Available |
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Collectors $19.99 Stephen Arens Collectors - Photographic Print |
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Collectors Series $12.99 Track Listing: 1. Time Won't Let Me, 2. Was It Really Real?, 3. Girl in Love, 4. What Makes You So Bad (You Weren't Brought Up That Way), 5. Chase Away the Tears, 6. Respectable, 7. Lost in My World, 8. Backwards, Upsidedown!, 9. Lonely Man, 10. Oh! How It Hurts, 11. Since I Lost My Baby, 12. Help Me Girl, 13. You Gotta Look, 14. I'm Not Tryin' to Hurt You, 15. I'll Give You Time (To Think It Over), 16. Don't Take Your Heartaches Out on Me, 17. Gotta Leave Us Alone, 18. I Just Can't See You Anymore, 19. I'll See You in the Summertime - (mono), 20. And Now You Want My Sympathy - (mono), 21. Little Bit of Lovin', 22. We Ain't Gonna Make It, 23. Why Shouldn't I Have a Cry Now - (previously unreleased), 24. Think I'm Falling - (previously unreleased), 25. Loving You - (mono) |
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The Boy Mineral Collectors. [A Tale.] $36.73 Title: The Boy Mineral Collectors. A tale.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the worlds largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th centurys most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes songbooks, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Kelley, Jay George; 1899, 1898]. 362 p.; 8 . 07108.g.31. Author: Kelley, Jay George Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2011/01/11 Language: English Dimensions: 7.44 x 9.69 x 0.79 inches |
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Hunters, Carvers, and Collectors (Paperback) $45.17 In the late 1950s, Chauncey C. Nash started collecting Inuit carvings just as the art of printmaking was being introduced in Kinngait (Cape Dorset), an Inuit community on Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Nash donated some 300 prints and sculptures to Harvard`s Peabody Museum?one of the oldest collections of early modern Inuit art. The Peabody collection includes not only early Inuit sculpture but also many of the earliest prints on paper made by the women and men who helped propel Inuit art onto the world stage. Author Maija M. Lutz draws from ethnology, archaeology, art history, and cultural studies to tell the story of a little-known collection that represents one of the most vibrant and experimental periods in the development of contemporary Inuit art. Lavishly illustrated, Hunters, Carvers, and Collectors presents numerous never-before-published gems, including carvings by the artists Karoo Ashevak and Peter Qumalu. This latest contribution to the award-winning Peabody Museum Collections Series fills an important gap in the literature of Native American art. |
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Collectors' Items $4.99 Collectors' Items |
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Skull Collectors $24.99 Skull Collectors |
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The Collectors - $9.99 In this independent drama, Logan (Adam Abram) is a young man with a great talent in the martial arts -- a gift he inherited from his father. However, when Logan loses the use of his legs in a auto accident, he's left with little reason to go on, and his father doesn't shy away from expressing his disappointment, especially as his father has recently lost his job. Logan's grandfather is sympathetic to his situation, and with the young man in mind he designs a hyper-realistic video game which will allow Logan to virtually exercise the fighting skills his body no longer allows. But Logan spends too much time with the game, and eventually finds himself lost somewhere between cyberspace and reality. The Collectors was written and directed by John Lyde, who has also directed several independent films relating to issues within the Mormon faith. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Capitol Collectors Series $11.99 Track Listing: 1. It's a Blue World, 2. Day Isn't Long Enough, The, 3. Poinciana (Song of the Tree), 4. It Happened Once Before, 5. Please Remember, 6. We'll Be Together Again, 7. Mood Indigo, 8. It Never Occurred to Me, 9. Day by Day, 10. How Can I Tell Her, 11. Charmaine, 12. In This Whole Wide World, 13. Angel Eyes, 14. Love Is Just Around the Corner, 15. Graduation Day, 16. Whistle Me Some Blues, 17. It Could Happen to You, 18. Candy, 19. Route 66, (Get Your Kicks On), 20. Their Hearts Were Full of Spring, 21. And So It's Over - (previously unreleased) |
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Love Makes The World Go Round $14.99 Collectors' Choice:699 |
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Leica Collectors Guide $120.95 Thoroughly revised, brought up to date, and completely reset with some 60% more pages. The layout has been redesigned to make this edition much easier to use as a work of reference. All the numerous new products introduced since the first edition are included. Two new chapters have been added, one on Leica Digital Cameras and one on Leicina Cine Cameras, and a new section on leather cases. Additional information, corrections and comments from readers all over the world have been incorporated. |
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Us/world Collectors Map Refill: Rolled $291.92 No Synopsis Available |
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Collectors Gold Series [Remaster] $13.99 Track Listing: 1. My True Story, 2. What Time Is It?, 3. Do You Hear Wedding Bells?, 4. Begging You Please, 5. Never Never, 6. Johnny Never Knew, 7. These Golden Rings, 8. I Don't Want to Be Without You Baby, 9. Hully Gully Callin' Time, 10. No Not Again, 11. Girl with the Wind in Her Hair, The, 12. Rain Makes My Baby Cry, 13. You Know What I Would Do, 14. Lily Marlane, 15. People from Another World, 16. Hurry Back, 17. She's My Girl, 18. When I Was Single, 19. Never Never, 20. My True Story |
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A Prophecy Forgotten Collectors Edition $41.17 You do not know us. You cannot see us. We are your guards, your protectors. For the past 3000 years, we have fought a war that stretches from our world to yours. Our prophecies tell us this war will end, but we are weary. Our hope is dwindling. Our faith is nearly lost. Their war has raged for centuries, a war in which hundreds of thousands have died. Their ancient writings command them to guard and protect man, and to fulfill that order they have spilt their blog across Earth and the dimensions beyond. Yet victory still eludes them, and their dedication to their task is waning. Their will to fight has diminished. They have become complacent, ripe for conquest by an enemy they least suspect. And now is when Earth needs them most. Author: Weston, M. B. Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 406 Publication Date: 2010/04/13 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 1.06 inches |
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Hobo With A Shotgun (Collectors Edition) $22.9 Rated: RSynopsis: A train pulls into the station it s the end of the line. A Hobo jumps from a freight car, hoping for a fresh start in a new city. Instead, he finds himself trapped in an urban hell. This is a world where criminals rule the streets and Drake, the city's crime boss, reigns supreme alongside his sadistic murderous sons, Slick & Ivan. Amidst the chaos, the Hobo comes across a pawn shop window displaying a second hand lawn mower. He dreams of making the city a beautiful place and starting a new life for himself. But as the brutality continues to rage around him, he notices a shotgun hanging above the lawn mower... Quickly, he realizes the only way to make a difference in this town is with that gun in his hand and two shells in its chamber. |
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Fisherman's Blues [Collectors' Edition] $24.99 Track Listing: (DISC 1:), (DISC 2:), 1. Carolan's Welcome - (previously unreleased), 1. Fisherman's Blues, 2. Killing My Heart - (previously unreleased), 2. We Will Not Be Lovers, 3. Strange Boat, 3. You in the Sky - (previously unreleased), 4. When Will We Be Married? - (previously unreleased), 4. World Party, 5. Nobody 'Cept You - (previously unreleased), 5. Sweet Thing, 6. Fisherman's Blues - (previously unreleased), 6. Jimmy Hickey's Waltz, 7. And a Bang on the Ear, 7. Girl of the North Country - (previously unreleased), 8. Has Anybody Here Seen Hank?, 8. Lonesome and a Long Way from Home - (previously unreleased), 9. If I Can't Have You - (previously unreleased), 9. When Will We Be Married?, 10. Rattle My Bones and Shiver My Soul - (previously unreleased), 10. When Ye Go Away, 11. Dunford's Fancy, 11. Let Me Feel Holy Again - (previously unreleased), 12. Meet Me at the Station - (previously unreleased), 12. Stolen Child, The, 13. Good Ship Sirius, The - (previously unreleased), 13. This Land Is Your Land, 14. Soon as I Get Home - (previously unreleased) |
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New York Yankees 2009 Topps MLB World Series Champions Collectors Starter Set With album $22.95 New York Yankees 2009 Topps World Series Champions Collectors Starter SetThis 27 card set is the Official Baseball Card of the World Series. It contains all the key players and highlights of the Fall Classic in one package. Each card is an authentic collectible, foil stamped with the World Series Champions logo, and packaged with World Series Champions graphics. The Topps Album is a 3" D- Ring Design preferred by collectors and made by Ultra Pro. This comes with 5 Ultra Pro Platinum pages that will hold up to 45 cards, single sided. All items Made in the USA. |