Reflections on Collecting: Still Musing on Collecting and American Antiques

Baron Perlman

ISBN 10: 1966219083 / ISBN 13: 9781966219088

Published by Baron Perlman, 2025

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A long-time collector, an interest in what makes collecting and collectors tick, an exploration of the decisions and emotions collectors experience, discoveries, wanderings and wonderings of collecting, all presented with grace and humbleness of Dr. Perlman's own knowledge and foibles. With joy and humor, what's not to like?Collecting is life. Reflections on Collecting welcomes and supports all in the collecting universe or know someone who is, in this tome, the world of American antiques. Anyone who wants to understand and appreciate himself or others as collectors needs this book. This bookDescribes collector characteristics including resilience and wondering.Focuses on the collector experience - failure, awe, joy, and love and desire among others.Looks at what affects collectors such as good luck, seduction and the casting of spells.Explores what collecting involves - pitfalls, finds, and paradoxically the value of quitting.Reflects on collectors' attachment to old friends, and some of the mysteries of collecting.Asserts that collecting is indeed a noble adventure full of wonderment.Pick up Reflections on Collecting and immerse yourself in the collector's universe, a world Baron Perlman loves and beseeches you to also. Let the adventure begin.A long-time collector, an interest in what makes collecting and collectors tick, an exploration of the decisions and emotions collectors experience, discoveries, wanderings and wonderings of collecting, all presented with grace and humbleness of Dr. Perlman's own knowledge and foibles. With joy and humor, what's not to like?Collecting is life. Reflections on Collecting welcomes and supports all in the collecting universe or know someone who is, in this tome, the world of American antiques. Anyone who wants to understand and appreciate himself or others as collectors needs this book. This bookDescribes collector characteristics including resilience and wondering.Focuses on the collector experience - failure, awe, joy, and love and desire among others.Looks at what affects collectors such as good luck, seduction and the casting of spells.Explores what collecting involves - pitfalls, finds, and paradoxically the value of quitting.Reflects on collectors' attachment to old friends, and some of the mysteries of collecting.Asserts that collecting is indeed a noble adventure full of wonderment.Pick up Reflections on Collecting and immerse yourself in the collector's universe, a world Baron Perlman loves and beseeches you to also. Let the adventure begin.A long-time collector, an interest in what makes collecting and collectors tick, an exploration of the decisions and emotions collectors experience, discoveries, wanderings and wonderings of collecting, all presented with grace and humbleness of Dr. Perlman's own knowledge and foibles. With joy and humor, what's not to like?Collecting is life. Reflections on Collecting welcomes and supports all in the collecting universe or know someone who is, in this tome, the world of American antiques. Anyone who wants to understand and appreciate himself or others as collectors needs this book. This bookDescribes collector characteristics including resilience and wondering.Focuses on the collector experience - failure, awe, joy, and love and desire among others.Looks at what affects collectors such as good luck, seduction and the casting of spells.Explores what collecting involves - pitfalls, finds, and paradoxically the value of quitting.Reflects on collectors' attachment to old friends, and some of the mysteries of collecting.Asserts that collecting is indeed a noble adventure full of wonderment.Pick up Reflections on Collecting and immerse yourself in the collector's universe, a world Baron Perlman loves and beseeches you to also. Let the adventure begin.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reflections on Collecting: Still Musing on Collecting and American Antiques
• Publisher: Baron Perlman
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1966219083
• ISBN 13: 9781966219088
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Reflections on Collecting exemplifies the world of American antiques, welcoming and supporting all in the collecting universe. Anyone who wants to understand and appreciate collecting and collectors needs this book.

A long-time collector, Dr. Perlman presents – with grace, humbleness, and humor – an explanation on what makes collectors tick, an exploration of the decisions and emotions collectors experience, and the discoveries, wanderings, and wonderment of collecting.

This book

• Describes collector characteristics, including resilience and aesthetic appreciation.
• Focuses on the collector experience like failure, awe, joy, love, and desire.
• Looks at what affects collectors such as good luck, seduction, and the casting of spells.
• Explores what collecting involves – pitfalls, finds, and paradoxically the value of quitting, among others.
• Asserts that collecting is indeed a noble odyssey.

Pick up Reflections on Collecting and immerse yourself in the collector’s universe, a world Baron Perlman beseeches you to love, as he does. Let the collecting adventures begin.

Reflections on Collecting is the third book in the Musings on Collecting Series. Pick up Book 1: Come Collect With Me, and Book 2: The Collector’s World.

About the Author

Baron Perlman is a long-time collector of American antiques and other genres. When young he began with stamps, baseball cards and comic books. Oh, if he had only kept the latter. Collecting is what he does.Born in Chicago Perlman attended Lawrence University (Appleton, WI) and Michigan State University where he earned his master's and doctorate in clinical psychology. His MSU sojourn was interrupted by service in the U.S. Army, including a tour in Vietnam. As a clinical psychologist he worked in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and consulted. He spent a lot of time listening and "making sense of," both of which have served him well as a collector and author. He is now joyfully retired.His interests in collecting and writing have led to num-erous columns in the national publication, Maine Antique Digest. In 2019 he published Come Collect with Me: Musings on Collecting and American Antiques. And in 2021 his second book saw the light of day, The Collector's World: More Musings on Collecting and American Antiques.Married 53 years, his wife Sandy joins him in collecting. They have lived in flyover country, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for what seems like an impossibly long time and have two sons and two cats. Neither son nor the cats are as consumed with collecting and writing as their dad is.