Reflections on Collecting

ebook Still Musing on Collecting and American Antiques: Musings on Collecting, #3 · Musings on Collecting

By Baron Perlman

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Reflections on Collecting exemplifies the world of American antiques, welcoming and supporting all in the collecting universe. Anyone who wants to understand and appreciate collecting and collectors needs this book.

A long-time collector, Dr. Perlman presents – with grace, humbleness, and humor – an explanation on what makes collectors tick, an exploration of the decisions and emotions collectors experience, and the discoveries, wanderings, and wonderment of collecting.

This book

  • Describes collector characteristics, including resilience and aesthetic appreciation.

  • Focuses on the collector experience like failure, awe, joy, love, and desire.

  • Looks at what affects collectors such as good luck, seduction, and the casting of spells.

  • Explores what collecting involves – pitfalls, finds, and paradoxically the value of quitting, among others.

  • Asserts that collecting is indeed a noble odyssey.

    Pick up Reflections on Collecting and immerse yourself in the collector's universe, a world Baron Perlman beseeches you to love, as he does. Let the collecting adventures begin.

    Reflections on Collecting is the third book in the Musings on Collecting Series. Pick up Book 1: Come Collect With Me, and Book 2: The Collector's World.

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