Collecting Garden Ornaments
I always enjoy gardens that have a little surprise in them–something unexpected and unique that draws the eye. While the terracotta pot always looks classically pretty in a garden, an old boot brimming...
View ArticleEight Tentacles Means Great Tentacles
Somehow, over the past decade or so, cephalopods have slowly but surely plodded over and engulfed my life. While my preoccupation with them is both more casual and scientific than, say, my...
View ArticleCollecting Carousel Figures
What is it about carousels that has charmed children for generations? Why are they so popular that they can be found at every carnival, theme park and even some malls? Is it the cheerful music, the...
View ArticleAbstraction Of The Collection Definition
The Wifey and I have written a bit about collecting record albums lately, but it’s not because we had any plan to focus on a particular collection. See, around a month ago, we got a huge box-lot of...
View ArticleCollecting Jade
For thousands of years, the Chinese have prized jade and attributed mysterious qualities and symbolism to it. In China, jade is a symbol of admirable values such as wisdom, beauty, courage and...
View ArticleRocks Of Ages
One year, when my sister and I were little girls, my parents bought the family a rock polisher or tumbler. It was neat to see what rocks would look like once they were all polished and shiny — who knew...
View ArticleA Taxidermy Collection: As Usual, It Starts With One
As mentioned, we stopped at Georgine’s on our way home from Wisconsin on Sunday. What we didn’t tell you was that at Georgine’s I got a pheasant. Not a live one, but a dead one. A taxidermy, mounted...
View ArticleLessons Of The Dodo: Disappearing Collectibles
The newswires are filled with stories on the recent discovery of the remains of a Dodo bird found in a cave beneath bamboo and tea plantations in Mauritius, an island located in the Indian Ocean. Dodo...
View ArticleBring Out Your Dead! : Collecting Arthropods on Vacation
Back in March of last year, I declared that I’m a horrible bug collector, and boy, am I. Scientists and entomologists are surely lining up around the block to smack me upside the head, or at least drop...
View ArticleMother Nature’s Collectibles: Shells, Coral and Shore Birds
Growing up in Wisconsin has its pluses. The four seasons, while challenging at times, can be wonderful. Lovely, green, budding trees and colorful flowers in spring, warm, sunny summers with beautiful...
View ArticleHow Much Is That Doggie In The Window & Other Collecting Tales
Being a soft-hearted collector with limited space and an even more limited wallet, it often becomes necessary to limit yourself. Failing that, it’s time for the spouse to play Bad Cop and place the...
View ArticleToy Fair 2012 : Collecta
While Collectors Quest’s own animal collecting obsessives have photographed, archived, and cataloged thousands of plastic model animals produced by companies all over the world on our site, the common...
View ArticleRally Squirrel Immortalized on World Series Rings
Photo courtesy of St. Louis Cardinals Way back in February, I wrote about how the Cardinals’ Skip Schumaker’s Topps baseball card prominently featured the team’s new unofficial mascot: the Rally...
View ArticleSticks & Stones, Diamonds & Bones
If April showers bring May flowers, then it must be pouring at auctions this month to bring the big bloom happening this May. Straight out of the earth too! On May 15, 2012, Sotheby’s is auctioning off...
View ArticleDon’t Bug Me, I’m Addicted Again: Dragonfly Jewelry
We often say that when you have three of anything, it is a collection. Well, I guess this is a new one for me. I purchased silver and crystal dragonfly earrings a few years back while on a Caribbean...
View ArticleThe Dracorex (And Other Awesome Safari Ltd. Stuff)
If you’re a human being, you know that dinosaurs are awesome. You probably wanted to BE a dinosaur at one point, peacefully grazing the grasses near a dormant volcano, or running around with powerful...
View ArticleThe Visual Guide to Scale Model Dinosaurs: Serious Business
We always love it when someone in our vibrant community of collectors turns their passions into collectibles. Such is the case with CQ user Dinosauriana, self-described as “one of the few, true...
View ArticleSkulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley’s Curious Collection
I’m a big fan of skulls. I once has a fair collection of my own, comprised of some pretty mundane specimens: deer, small mammals, a few birds I’d found around the valley, but I’ve since given them all...
View ArticleButterflies Are Not Free: Beautiful Wing Art
I recall many a sunny morning, sitting in our yard with our beagle, Duchess, and watching butterflies flit by. It seemed they were everywhere, many of them monarchs in vibrant orange and chocolate...
View ArticleCollecting Roses
The French writer Joseph Joubert once said, “All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.” This quote has been on my mind lately as I look around and see gorgeous displays of roses...
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