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Message:: [QUOTE="maridvnvm, post: 3983300, member: 31620"]I have only ever met one other ancient collector in person. I had the opportunity to spend an hour with Curtis Clay in the back rooms of HJB whilst I was on business in Chicago over a decade ago. This was a fleeting visit as I was on my way to the airport to head back to the UK. Curtis was a generous host and had brought in a selection of his bronzes of Septimius Severus for me to drool over. My visit was somewhat curtailed as I had just had my phone stolen from me on the streets outside the store and I was trying to retrieve it (a long and convoluted story). I suspect that my main collection areas generally leave most collectors (including those of ancients) scratching their heads but that doesn't bother me in the slightest. I collect for myself and not for anyone else. I don't need third party validation. Things that I find interesting are generally of little or no interest to others and I am fine with this. I sometimes see something that I think will only appeal to me that then goes beyond my limited reach and I wonder who bought it and why. I value the opportunity that communities like this give to allow me to communicate with other people who have broader knowledge of the field than I do and to see things that I would not otherwise have seen or even known existed in many cases. I do know that sometimes my posts to a thread seem to act as a thread killer. I don't take this personally.....[/QUOTE]