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COLLECTABLES
...or should it be Collectibles?! Anyway, anything that can be collected and can form a collection. Collectors collect collectables, and sometimes collectables collect dust, but not always. Collectors often have an enthralling enthusiasm for their collections and generally treasure them greatly.
Things which are collected include:
Coins
Numismatism - see GovMint
Thimbles
Teaspoons
Labels off bottles
Tickets
Business cards
Meteorites
Postcards
Tea Bags
Slot Machine Glass
It makes coffee tables which are a good talking-point
Old photographs
Barbed Wire
Yes
it's true; see the Barb Wire Museum and the Antique Barbed Wire Society
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Typically, collections involve items which are small and have much distinctiveness. Although it's in theory possible to be a collector of old trucks, railway rolling stock, paving slabs, or church organs, it's often a matter of practicality that the items be small enough so the collector can keep a pleasingly large collection of the items without the storage being too inconvenient.
Collectable items are fascinatingly interesting to the collector, and generally astonishing to folk who never realised that you could collect such a thing in such vast numbers and diversity.
There is usually (but not always) a historical aspect to a collection, as the older the items get, the more rare and interesting they get. It's also a good idea if the subject being collected is non-perishable (a Millennium celebration balloon which had been experimentally collected proved to be non-viable around 2004).
Here are a selection of purveyors of the finest quality collectables:
MARVEL STORE
Merchandise of Comic Book Heroes
H.SAMUEL
Fine jewellery, watches, collectables and much more.
Fossil
collectible watches and other memorabilia
Amalgam
Highly detailed automotive models
Stanley Gibbons
Stamp Collecting - World Catalogue of Stamps
Toledo Swords
Collectible Heirloom Armory
Other relevant associated pages at this site: History, Gifts, Museums & Art Galleries, Archaeology, and Art
Collecting is often regarded as a HOBBY but it can go further than that!
If anyone is interested in collecting some of the strange items available from Zyra's Bazaar, please let us know.
Yes, we are aware that the word for items which are the subject of being collected by collectors is sometimes written as COLLECTABLES or as COLLECTIBLES but according to a quality dictionary, either manner of spelling of the word is acceptable.