My wife collects various things but I don't have the temperment to be a real
collector. I am more of an "accumulator". I find thing that I like and buy
some of them in variations that I like, but I don't want to have to buy every
one of them and track down all of the rare variants.
I saw a show on TV a few weeks ago about a guy that collected old model train
stuff. He had thousands and thousands of pieces- trains, props, buildings,
track, people, all kinds of stuff from up to 150 years ago that all went into
trains. There was one piece that was a large building or group of buildindgs,
and he had every one that the company made. I don't mean every variation, but
every single one of the buildings that were sold. He had a bridge from Europe
that was bombed during WWI and no longer existed. He had a home with a very
large basement, over 5,000SF if I heard it right, and it was completely full of
train tracks and loaded shelves. He finally decided he had collected
everything that was available, so he was going to sell every bit of it and
start over collecting something else. The auction house that was going to sell
it said they thought it would go for well into 8 figures.
> I have about 10 Zippos and about a hundred other unique lighters, most
> antique.
> I bought my first Zippo for $0.25 at an elementary school fair.
> I realized a long time ago that there a just too many Zippos to try
> and collect them all. Sounds like Gary is trying, though.
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