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The hobby of collecting includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining items that are of interest to an individual collector. Collections differ in a wide variety of respects, most obviously in the nature and scope of the objects contained, but also in purpose, presentation, and so forth. The range of possible subjects for a collection is practically unlimited, and collectors have realised a vast number of these possibilities in practice, although some are much more popular than others.
In collections of manufactured items, the objects may be antique or simply collectable. Antiques are collectable items at least 100 years old, while other collectables are arbitrarily recent. The word vintage describes relatively old collectables that are not yet antiques.
Collecting is a childhood hobby for some people, but for others, it is a lifelong pursuit or something started in adulthood. Collectors who begin early in life often modify their goals when they get older. Some novice collectors start by purchasing items that appeal to them and then slowly work at learning how to build a collection, while others prefer to develop some background in the field before starting to buy items. The emergence of the internet as a global forum for different collectors has resulted in many isolated enthusiasts finding each other.
The hobby of collecting often goes hand-in-hand with an interest in the objects collected and what they represent, for example collecting postcards may...
market, collectables rarely prove to be a spectacular investment. Collectible market index Coin collecting Stamp collecting Vintage spirits "Collectable" Archived...
Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is an area of philately, which is the study (or combined study and collection)...
hobby, or profit. Fossil collecting, as practiced by amateurs, is the predecessor of modern paleontology and many still collect fossils and study fossils...
The collect (/ˈkɒlɛkt/ KOL-ekt) is a short general prayer of a particular structure used in Christian liturgy. Collects appear in the liturgies of Catholic...
Coin collecting is the collecting of coins or other forms of minted legal tender. Coins of interest to collectors include beautiful, rare, and historically...
Patch collecting or badge collecting (also, scutelliphily, from Latin scutellus meaning little shield, and Greek phileein meaning to love) is the hobby...
several components of the collecting duct system, including the connecting tubules, cortical collecting ducts, and medullary collecting ducts. The segments...
Autograph collecting is the practice of collecting autographs of famous persons. Some of the most popular categories of autograph subjects are politicians...
Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever...
Record collecting is the hobby of collecting sound recordings, usually of music, but sometimes poetry, reading, historical speeches, and ambient noises...
Jeffries, David. "Collecting the Kid - El-P". AllMusic. Retrieved May 7, 2016. Weingarten, Christopher R. (2004). "El-P: Collecting the Kid". CMJ New...
Nazi memorabilia Police memorabilia Scouting memorabilia Victoriana, collecting of materials from the Victorian era "British Matchbox Label and Booklet...
the quality of the specimen. Plant collecting is an ancient practice with records of a Chinese botanist collecting roses over 5000 years ago. Herbaria...
Collectables by Ashanti is a remix compilation album by American singer Ashanti. It was released by Murder Inc. and Def Jam on December 6, 2005. The album...
for why collecting behavior occurs, including consumerism, materialism, neurobiology and psychoanalytic theory. The psychology of collecting also offers...
(also known as a copyright society, copyright collecting agency, licensing agency or copyright collecting society or collective management organization)...
skateboarding. A person involved in sneaker collecting is sometimes called a sneakerhead. Sneaker collecting came to prominence in the 1980s in New York...
Ballot collecting, also known as "ballot harvesting" or "ballot chasing", is the gathering and submitting of completed absentee or mail-in voter ballots...
Topical or thematic stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps relating to a particular subject or concept. Topics can be almost anything, from...
A collect call in Canada and the United States, known as a reverse charge call in other parts of the English-speaking world, is a telephone call in which...
before it enters the collecting duct system. Water, some salts and nitrogenous waste like urea and creatinine are passed out to collecting tubule. Each distal...
stamps and other philatelic products. While closely associated with stamp collecting and the study of postage, it is possible to be a philatelist without owning...
Element collecting is the hobby of collecting the chemical elements. Many element collectors simply enjoy finding peculiar uses of chemical elements....
One such was No More AOL CDs, a web-based effort by two IT workers to collect one million disks with the intent to return the disks to AOL. The website...
believed that people have been collecting paper money for as long as it has been in use. However, people only started collecting paper money systematically...
all shell collectors (regardless of motivation) as conchologists. Shell collecting, the precursor of conchology, dates back thousands of years. Archaeologists...
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