"I've never seen all of my quarters at one time, " a collector of early American coins said, sighing wistfully.
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The Smith collection started when Mr. Ziegler, a 60-year-old retired Air Force master sergeant, read about a collector of thousands of business cards.
Speyer is a major collector of contemporary art and a champion of new artists.
Luckily (for the sake of the Model J) this car eventually found its way into the hands of a noted collector of Duesenbergs, Holmer Fitterling of South Bend, Ind.
Once he attended a meeting there of La Cumbre ("The Summit"), a club of elite cigar aficionados, including a Moscow clothes retailer, a Chicago collector of pre-Castro cigars and a cigar merchant from the Cayman Islands.
After he sold TV Guide to RupertMurdochRupert Murdoch, Walter Annenberg was a great collector of impressionist and modern paintings.
After he sold TV Guide to Rupert Murdoch , Walter Annenberg was a great collector of impressionist and modern paintings.
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Levy is a renowned collector of Roman and Greek antiquities.
Nasser Al-Hajri, a wealthy Saudi oil contractor who has been a devoted collector of the animals for the past decade, is prepared to pay top dollar for the right camel.
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At worst, it's a minor collector of grubby-looking fingerprints.
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Beck (as the exhibit demonstrates) was also a keen collector of outdoor photography, including work by his American contemporary William Henry Jackson and, most impressively, by Vittorio Sella, a younger Italian climber-photographer whose large-format work has rarely been equaled by anyone in the medium.
Built on a hill said to be inhabited continuously for 7, 000 years, it houses a small museum where Gandur, an avid collector of antiquities, studied a collection of ancient Sumerian tablets.
Of course, owning a piece of James Bond is no doubt tantalizing for the movie memorabilia collector, a way of associating oneself with that debonair lady-killer who manages to bed every attractive woman he lays eyes on despite his horridly cheesy puns.
They were collected primarily through police reports in 2007, death certificates and the number of fatalities registered by the Not-in-Traffic Surveillance system, a virtual data collector of details regarding nontraffic crashes nationwide.
Gerald Ford was a particularly enthusiastic collector of boardroom seats after he left the White House.
Mr. Berwind, a collector and patron of the arts, died in 1936.
"The toy train market is not a growing market, " agrees Donald Carlson, a collector and friend of Kughn's who put together the Carail toy train catalog.
"A watch tells a lot about its owner, " said Reginald Brack, a New York-based entrepreneur and a collector and dealer of modern and vintage Rolex and Patek Philippes.
His props, including old Buicks and Oldsmobiles he took to buyers' houses ("I drove the paint off three of those bastards"), were all part of the bargaining act, a sort of collector's duck blind behind which he hid.
Once the droit de suite kicks in, a Buenos Aires collector looking to unload a cache of Lucian Freuds would have a financial incentive to sell through a New York gallery rather than one in London.
The camera currently takes 30 images per second by transmitting millimeter and microwaves to a "collector" on the other side of a subject, and then sends them to a laptop for real-time inspection.
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We'll be watching a collector's edition of "Mad Men" (seasons 1-80) on their built-in DVD player.
"Duncan Phillips started off as a kind of timid collector, " Ms. Behrends Frank says.
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One painting was mistaken by a collector for the work of David Cox.
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The ruling clears the way for the plaintiff to get punitive damages from the collector, a unit of West Corp.
Mr. Harmelin argued Mr. Emmet, a surgeon and avid collector of Americana, had been traveling to Philadelphia in the mid-1800s to purchase documents.
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