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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 639582, member: 68&quot;]I consider myself the first generalist since the great pyramids were built.&nbsp; Unfortunately I&#039;m self trained, of necessity, so I don&#039;t know much of anything.&nbsp; This is probably why I collect everything from ancients to telephone tokens.&nbsp; Many collections I started just because the items were available and some because no one else was.&nbsp; Some were just to have something to look for in the junk boxes or so I could always be the only one looking.&nbsp; It&#039;s easy to be Johnny on the spot when you have no competition.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It was probably this last one that got me hooked on clad.&nbsp; I was already investing in clad as early as 1972 but I held it at arms lenght in those days so as not to get any on me.&nbsp; In the late &#039;70&#039;s I sorely wanted to collect gems but everything else was getting big premiums and you had to fight the crowds for them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now days I do specialize a little bit but this might be more just a recognition that you can&#039;t call a collection with no specimens a collection.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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