[meteorite-list] What else do you collect?

[Thaddeus Besedin]

I now collect data, filling my hard drive and dotting my GIS landscapes. Now, what separates a collector from a sampler? research and synthesis? the ascription of some sort of market value? I sample from sites I study, but I do not own anything that I have  collected. If at all, a collection in some sense has somehow accumulated: musical recordings and instruments that I use - and only what I use. This is not necessarily a collection. If anything can be called something I actively collect, at least like I did as a kid and teen, I would include volcanic materials and other natural things picked up as I need for archaeological reference. I have some examples '20s - '50s Soviet stuff (decorations, flags, publications, as well as a research collection of books related to Socialism - theoretical, aesthetico-ideological, historical) and medieval European/Islamic coins, but my interest in further acquisitions died long ago. These things will be inherited by my descendants if not
 donated to universities or libraries. I haven't purchased a meteorite in over 16 mo. , but I will keep my Russian specimens, as well as single class representatives for comparative purposes. 
  Compare collecting to any detrimental addictive pattern if respect for the importance of any single specimen/configuration and money are lacking - and space. 
  I will be listing most of my collection ( > 85 specimens) as soon as I can. Prices will be good.
  -Thaddeus
  

"Gary K. Foote" <gary at webbers.com> wrote:
  Interesting you should say that. CJ and I hike and we collect shelf mushrooms - fungi. 
I used to collect stamps, but found it too $$$ intensive for a pre-teen boy. lol Now 
that I have a few bucks stamps are no longer on ,my radar screen.

Photons I collect from dawn to dusk... :)

G

On 29 Nov 2006 at 20:19, Walter Branch wrote:

> "I collect spores, molds and fungus"
> 
> Q: Who said that?
> 
> -Walter Branch
> 
> Actually, I collect stamps and covers and photons of light when I get the 
> time.
> ________________________
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary K. Foote" 
> To: 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:11 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] What else do you collect?
> 
> 
> > As a neophyte collector of meteorites I have amassed about $1K in 
> > specimens, all of which
> > I cherish dearly. I am learning about preservation as some of my 
> > specimens are beginning
> > to show signs of scaling, kamacite ooze and other such degradations.
> >
> > Interestingly enough, along the way I've also become interested in 
> > terrestrial rocks,
> > fossils, impactites and the like. I was just wondering;
> >
> > What else does everyone collect?
> >
> > Gary
> >
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