Well I try for top catogary collection, within a given sector., { 90% of my collection are kukri} with as many at budget prices as possoible, but occasional real push the boat out jobs, then on live on rice for a month.
But its worked. Research & knowledge can sometimes overcome wealth, within particular feilds, except when the sellers & dealers realy knows exactly what there selling{fairly rare with kukri.} or at big auction houses where the rich nearly always win, whether they know exactly what an item is or not.
When I was training as a counselor , i came across a paper , where the mostly male collecting insticnt was described as a perversion of our original daily or weekly stone age hunting instinct, where one goes out to look for ones prey, finds it, tracks it, move in for the kill, then takes it home to both show are capabilities & ability to provide as well as providing for our family/tribe.
For me, I can see & feel that in my collecting as well.
Seeing what some of you say about the stages , seems like whover wrote that paper , & peggid it exactly.
Wish I could recall who wrote it.
Spiral
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