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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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are interested in the particular objects he 

 has gathered, in explaining their history and 

 very often in so stimulating interest in his 

 visitor that another collector is the result. 



.Now in either of these cases much of 

 the satisfaction to be derived from the pos- 

 session of a collection of any kind depends 

 very largely upon its tasteful and suitable 

 arrangement. I know one collector who 

 has long specialized in old English pewter 

 who has been so occupied with acquiring a 

 marvelous array of beautiful things that he 

 has given neither time nor thought to their 

 proper arrangement. Each plate, tankard 

 or stein is wraoped in paper and all of them 

 are stored away in closets or in drawers. 

 He claims to be able to find in an instant 

 any particular piece he may wish to see but 

 I often think that he misses a large part 

 of the joy of having them in not having 

 his treasures arranged in some suitable 

 way. 



The problem of properly placing a col- 

 lection and of its most advantageous ar- 

 rangement must be solved by a collector at 

 a very early stage in the growth of the col- 

 lection. There are a few objects, to be 

 sure, for which but one arrangement is 

 either feasible or practical. It would be 

 difficult to imagine a method of arranging 

 postage stamps more convenient and sys- 

 tematic than attaching the stamps very 

 lightly into place in one of the very com- 

 plete albums which are used by present- 

 day philantitists. These albums are made 

 with very large pages and the arrangement 

 of the stamps is facilitated by there being 

 a tiny space for each stamp required for 

 a complete collection. I have always 

 thought that this arrangement of pages 

 must be a powerful incentive to increasing 

 the extent of a collection as well as a most 

 convenient method for arranging the 

 stamps for where lives there a collector with 

 soul so dead as not to be fired to greater 

 exertions to complete a collection when 

 there exist upon each page of "his stamp 

 album numerous small square spaces each 

 duly ticketed and labeled with the descrip- 

 tion of just what should be pasted therein? 



With a collection of coins the case is 

 somewhat different for there are several 

 methods of arrangement which may be 

 said to be equally popular. One collector 

 of my acquaintance has arranged his treas- 

 ures in a small cabinet which contains a 

 number of very shallow drawers. These 

 drawers are sufficiently numerous to af- 

 ford one to each of the countries, ancient 

 or modern, in which he is interested, and 

 each drawer is divided by thin strips of 

 wood into tiny squares each marked with 

 the name and date of the coin which it con- 

 tains and bearing a number which refers 

 to a general catalogue which in time will 

 become a veritable mine of information. 



But with collections of other kinds it is 

 quite different and this difference creates 

 the dilemma which any real collector is 

 sure to encounter. One piece of advice 

 may be given, however, which will apply 

 almost universally: Keep the collection 

 gathered — in one place rather than have it 

 scattered about. A wonderful collection of 

 early American pottery had long been scat- 

 tered over the whole of a very large coun- 

 try house. The extent and beauty of the 

 old earthenware and china was not realized, 

 even by the owner herself, until it had been 

 brought together and tastefully arranged in 

 numerous small cupboards which lined the 

 walls of a dining-room and which extended 

 from the paneled wainscoting to the rather 

 low ceiling. Behind the glass doors with 

 their delicate white muntins in an old colon- 

 ial pattern, the really beautiful old objects 

 seem to assume a new beauty by reason 



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