Come Collect With Me: Musings on Collecting and American Antiques - Softcover

Perlman, Baron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1949085082 ISBN 13: 9781949085082

Publisher: CKBooks Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

If you are a new collector who is just starting out, a long-time collector, or you know someone who collects, this is the book for you.

Come Collect with Me is for avid collectors of all stripes — from bottle caps, to snow globes to high country Queen Anne — but it is particularly meant for those who cherish and chase American antiques. 

This book will:

• Explain, confirm, and illuminate questions collectors have about their collecting. 
• Offer understanding of why collectors collect.
• Provide insights into and lessons of collecting that help readers understand the passion and be better collectors. 
• Teach how to maintain a balancing act between cost and passion. 
• Explore the “dance” when couples collect together.
• Delve into Lessons Learned including the author’s missteps along the way.
• Present a recommended reading list for collectors.

Pick up Come Collect With Me and join Baron Perlman’s love story of the world of collecting.

About this title

About the Author

Baron Perlman is a long-time collector of American decorative arts. Bitten by the collecting bug as a young man he found that his childhood and teen focus on stamps, coins, comic books, and baseball cards was supplanted by American antiques. He was born to collect. Dr. Perlman was an academic for 34 years teaching and researching as a clinical psychologist. His applied work as a clinician doing psychotherapy, supervising others, and just plain listening and trying to "make sense of" serves him well as a collector. Collecting is as human an endeavor as anything Shakespeare ever described. Born in Chicago Perlman attended Lawrence University (Appleton, WI) and then Michigan State University where he earned his master's and doctorate in clinical psychology. During a sabbatical from graduate school he spent two years in the U.S. Army including a sojourn in Viet Nam. Most of his professional life was spent in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and in a variety of consulting positions. He is now joyfully retired. His interests in collecting and writing have led to numerous columns that continue to be published in Maine Antique Digest. Additionally, he pens a monthly column for the local newspaper, the Oshkosh Northwestern about local, state and national matters - involving the interactions of three people in a bar (about as Wisconsin as one can get). Married almost 50 years, his wife Sandy joins him in collecting. They have lived in Oshkosh, Wisconsin for a long time and have two sons and three cats. Neither son is as consumed with collecting as their dad is. (Of course, the aircraft fixation of one son is costly to say the least.)

Edition details

• Publisher: CKBooks Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1949085082
• ISBN 13: 9781949085082
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336