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<p>[QUOTE="ewomack, post: 8428896, member: 15588"]Since you asked, I'll cite a few examples below, one from a 1923 issue of <i>The Numismatist</i>. The claim has been said <i>so many times</i> over such a spread of time that it's reached near cliché status. A deeper Internet search will reveal countless other examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it's a <i>controversial claim</i>, of course, which is why, in my original post, I followed it up with "it <i>seems</i> true." Key word "seems." That's my <i>opinion</i>. I've also found, again, <i>my opinion</i>, that collectors tend to want to turn other people into collectors, so the claim that collectors "can't be made" tends to ring sour with them. It defies their confirmation biases. But I'm sure that cases do exist to the contrary.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have known <i>collectors</i> and I have known <i>non-collectors</i>. Each seem to approach the world differently. To take a very personal example, I am a collector, but my wife is not. She does not understand my desire to collect things <i>at all</i>. She has never collected anything and I highly doubt that she ever will. Yet she has lived with a collector (me) for a few decades now and the behavior has not "rubbed off on her." She appreciates many things, even some of my own collection, but she doesn't have the desire to possess things in the way that most collectors do. My nephew has exactly the same mentality. Another friend of mine once saw my collection and said "I've never collected anything in my life." To the contrary, other members of my family have <i>piles</i> of collections in their homes. This isn't a scientific study, of course, but I've seen too many examples of the dichotomy to dismiss the claim. Like most such claims, it doesn't carry universal truth, but it does seem to carry at least a <i>general</i> truth.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://arterritory.com/en/conversations_with-collectors/conversations_with-collectors/18676-collectors_are_born_not_made/ https://www.amoa.org/pricecollection https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/22/obituaries/norbert-schimmel-collector-dies-specialist-in-antiquities-was-85.html' https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/the-talks/i-have-been-a-born-collector/ https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-new-collectors-guide-good-manners-design-dealer-patrick-parrish https://books.google.com/books?id=QjlOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA538&lpg=PA538&dq=collectors+are+born+not+made&source=bl&ots=OOfkVtSC2K&sig=ACfU3U3jeNQlp107RP7goiSVNVWn3keqmQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi70sbB7_34AhW2lYkEHYzaD_EQ6AF6BAgaEAM#v=onepage&q=collectors%20are%20born%20not%20made&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://arterritory.com/en/conversations_with-collectors/conversations_with-collectors/18676-collectors_are_born_not_made/ https://www.amoa.org/pricecollection https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/22/obituaries/norbert-schimmel-collector-dies-specialist-in-antiquities-was-85.html' https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/the-talks/i-have-been-a-born-collector/ https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-new-collectors-guide-good-manners-design-dealer-patrick-parrish https://books.google.com/books?id=QjlOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA538&lpg=PA538&dq=collectors+are+born+not+made&source=bl&ots=OOfkVtSC2K&sig=ACfU3U3jeNQlp107RP7goiSVNVWn3keqmQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi70sbB7_34AhW2lYkEHYzaD_EQ6AF6BAgaEAM#v=onepage&q=collectors%20are%20born%20not%20made&f=false" rel="nofollow">https://arterritory.com/en/conversations_with-collectors/conversations_with-collectors/18676-collectors_are_born_not_made/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.amoa.org/pricecollection" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amoa.org/pricecollection" rel="nofollow">https://www.amoa.org/pricecollection</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/22/obituaries/norbert-schimmel-collector-dies-specialist-in-antiquities-was-85.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/22/obituaries/norbert-schimmel-collector-dies-specialist-in-antiquities-was-85.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/22/obituaries/norbert-schimmel-collector-dies-specialist-in-antiquities-was-85.html</a>'</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/the-talks/i-have-been-a-born-collector/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/the-talks/i-have-been-a-born-collector/" rel="nofollow">https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/the-talks/i-have-been-a-born-collector/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-new-collectors-guide-good-manners-design-dealer-patrick-parrish" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-new-collectors-guide-good-manners-design-dealer-patrick-parrish" rel="nofollow">https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-new-collectors-guide-good-manners-design-dealer-patrick-parrish</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QjlOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA538&lpg=PA538&dq=collectors+are+born+not+made&source=bl&ots=OOfkVtSC2K&sig=ACfU3U3jeNQlp107RP7goiSVNVWn3keqmQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi70sbB7_34AhW2lYkEHYzaD_EQ6AF6BAgaEAM#v=onepage&q=collectors%20are%20born%20not%20made&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=QjlOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA538&lpg=PA538&dq=collectors+are+born+not+made&source=bl&ots=OOfkVtSC2K&sig=ACfU3U3jeNQlp107RP7goiSVNVWn3keqmQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi70sbB7_34AhW2lYkEHYzaD_EQ6AF6BAgaEAM#v=onepage&q=collectors%20are%20born%20not%20made&f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=QjlOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA538&lpg=PA538&dq=collectors+are+born+not+made&source=bl&ots=OOfkVtSC2K&sig=ACfU3U3jeNQlp107RP7goiSVNVWn3keqmQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi70sbB7_34AhW2lYkEHYzaD_EQ6AF6BAgaEAM#v=onepage&q=collectors are born not made&f=false</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ewomack, post: 8428896, member: 15588"]Since you asked, I'll cite a few examples below, one from a 1923 issue of [I]The Numismatist[/I]. The claim has been said [I]so many times[/I] over such a spread of time that it's reached near cliché status. A deeper Internet search will reveal countless other examples. And it's a [I]controversial claim[/I], of course, which is why, in my original post, I followed it up with "it [I]seems[/I] true." Key word "seems." That's my [I]opinion[/I]. I've also found, again, [I]my opinion[/I], that collectors tend to want to turn other people into collectors, so the claim that collectors "can't be made" tends to ring sour with them. It defies their confirmation biases. But I'm sure that cases do exist to the contrary. I have known [I]collectors[/I] and I have known [I]non-collectors[/I]. Each seem to approach the world differently. To take a very personal example, I am a collector, but my wife is not. She does not understand my desire to collect things [I]at all[/I]. She has never collected anything and I highly doubt that she ever will. Yet she has lived with a collector (me) for a few decades now and the behavior has not "rubbed off on her." She appreciates many things, even some of my own collection, but she doesn't have the desire to possess things in the way that most collectors do. My nephew has exactly the same mentality. Another friend of mine once saw my collection and said "I've never collected anything in my life." To the contrary, other members of my family have [I]piles[/I] of collections in their homes. This isn't a scientific study, of course, but I've seen too many examples of the dichotomy to dismiss the claim. Like most such claims, it doesn't carry universal truth, but it does seem to carry at least a [I]general[/I] truth. [URL='https://arterritory.com/en/conversations_with-collectors/conversations_with-collectors/18676-collectors_are_born_not_made/ https://www.amoa.org/pricecollection https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/22/obituaries/norbert-schimmel-collector-dies-specialist-in-antiquities-was-85.html' https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/the-talks/i-have-been-a-born-collector/ https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-new-collectors-guide-good-manners-design-dealer-patrick-parrish https://books.google.com/books?id=QjlOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA538&lpg=PA538&dq=collectors+are+born+not+made&source=bl&ots=OOfkVtSC2K&sig=ACfU3U3jeNQlp107RP7goiSVNVWn3keqmQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi70sbB7_34AhW2lYkEHYzaD_EQ6AF6BAgaEAM#v=onepage&q=collectors%20are%20born%20not%20made&f=false']https://arterritory.com/en/conversations_with-collectors/conversations_with-collectors/18676-collectors_are_born_not_made/[/URL] [URL]https://www.amoa.org/pricecollection[/URL] [URL]https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/22/obituaries/norbert-schimmel-collector-dies-specialist-in-antiquities-was-85.html[/URL]' [URL]https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/the-talks/i-have-been-a-born-collector/[/URL] [URL]https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-new-collectors-guide-good-manners-design-dealer-patrick-parrish[/URL] [URL='https://books.google.com/books?id=QjlOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA538&lpg=PA538&dq=collectors+are+born+not+made&source=bl&ots=OOfkVtSC2K&sig=ACfU3U3jeNQlp107RP7goiSVNVWn3keqmQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi70sbB7_34AhW2lYkEHYzaD_EQ6AF6BAgaEAM#v=onepage&q=collectors%20are%20born%20not%20made&f=false']https://books.google.com/books?id=QjlOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA538&lpg=PA538&dq=collectors+are+born+not+made&source=bl&ots=OOfkVtSC2K&sig=ACfU3U3jeNQlp107RP7goiSVNVWn3keqmQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi70sbB7_34AhW2lYkEHYzaD_EQ6AF6BAgaEAM#v=onepage&q=collectors are born not made&f=false[/URL][/QUOTE]
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