9 Oct
2007
9 Oct
'07
11:41 p.m.
Most collectors do not do anything with their collections.
Nearly all of us are on this constant drive to get new items, chase
them down, acquire them - then put them in the pile. 5 percent of the
pile gets used and played with 95 percent of the time. The dire
warnings are mostly as solid as a souffle.
Cue the usual suspects to rebut.
Assuming I'm one of the 'usual suspects' :-)
I won't contradict your statnement because, alas, it;s true. Many
collectors (the perjorative term for them over here is 'stamp collectors')
never power anything up, and in fact won't allow machines to be powered
up for fear of daamaging them.
And you're right. Even those (and I include myself here) who do run their
classics spend most the time working with a very small part of their
collection.
-tony