Collecting is a type of activity of people recognized among the hobbies as the most popular in the world. What do people collect? Everything from traffic jams and similar trinkets to expensive cars.
Collection - an orderly collection of things that are united by a common attribute.
Collecting is a widespread, interesting and often expensive hobby.
What do people collect?
What true collectors do not collect: stamps, coins, toys, souvenir magnets, postcards, weapons, watches, dolls, mugs, books, candy wrappers, sea shells, books, cards, flags, etc.
Wealthier people collect paintings, weapons, rare books, cigarettes, icons and wines. Significant amounts of money are spent on this kind of hobby. The cost of some collectible exhibits reaches up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Some people even collect cars, planes and ships. There are enormous opportunities for those who wish to do this. It is possible to collect objects both easier and cheaper, but the lesson will not lose its originality from this.
Amazing fantasy of people is amazing when you find out what people collect. Many people collect incredible things. It turns out that there are collectors of bricks, just bottles and pharmacy bottles, cameras and autographs of celebrities.
What are collectors of various items called?
Collectors of certain items are called differently. People who collect labels from matches are called philumenists, and card collectors are called philocartists. Humophilia - the collection of candy wrappers from chewing gum. Plangonologists are doll collectors. Hepatophiles collect ice cream wrappers, and vromologists collect cheese labels. Magnet collectors are called memomagnets. Bonistics is the collection of money in the form of paper signs, faleristics - awards. Psaligraphophilists collect clippings from newspapers, conhiophilists collect sea shells.
And what do lepidopterophilists collect? Butterflies. There are many such unusual names. Everything is impossible to list.
Numismatics
A person collecting coins is called a numismatist. The word "numismatics" comes from the Latin numisma - coin. Coin collecting began in the 14th century. And as one of the fields of science, numismatics arose in the 18th century.
In Russia, Peter I laid the foundation for collecting coins. He bought (1721) in Hamburg for the Kunstkamera a collection of Moders coins.
Now the collection of the Russian State Hermitage Museum totals 63,360 antique, 360,000 Western European, 220,000 Eastern and 300,000 Russian coins. Their age is equal to the period from the 7th century BC to the present day.
Of the most famous ancient world coin collections, the largest was found in China. The total mass is about 500 kilograms. The oldest of these coins was minted in 206 BC. Its owner was a man who lived in the XIII century.
Philatelic
The person collecting stamps is a philatelist. Philately as a collection area appeared in the 1840s. At that time, stamps were introduced into circulation (1840).
In Russia, the emergence of philately was associated with the release of the first stamps in Russia (1858) and envelopes (1845). In the XIX century, a 6-kopeck stamp for envelopes of eastern correspondence (1863) by collectors was estimated at 100, and a 5-kopeck stamp for envelopes of Moscow mail (1846) - at 1000 German marks.
Today, there are many regional philatelic organizations with their sites.
Stamp collecting with numismatics are the most popular types of collecting.
There can be a lot of ideas about collecting. Collecting will never lose its relevance, and, conversely, will be replenished with the latest original ideas.