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they, no doubt, would look askance at my old tin can collection which I cherish and even display in my living room (many people do not understand this collection!) I read the other day about a man who collects full beer cans. Now, there is an interesting twist. Someday I may send him my old rusty Jollytime Popcorn can that has never been opened. The unpopped corn should go well with the unopened beer. One thing is certain and that is that everything is being collected. The fun in collecting, however, is in trying to find things that are fairly easy to find — unless money is no object. It is a large object to me, and those of my ilk, so we stick to the readily available but not usually very valuable. To me, and thousands of kindred collectors, the rare and valuable are too frustrating to bother with. All the Frederic Remington paintings but one have been found. It would be nice to find that one, but then what? It would be like trying to collect Holy Grails. Who is Doing the Collecting There are two basic groups of junk collectors. Type I is dedicated and filled with zeal. This person collects just one thing — salt cellars, fruit jars or left-handed umbrellas. This type has his quivering antennae always tuned to the vibrations of his own particular love. Type II, into which I happen to fall, might be called the “eclectic” collector. We are usually beset by relatives who say, “For pity’s sake, why don’t you get rid of some of this trash?” We don’t because we can’t. We all have our little peculiarities, and ours is that we are certain that one fine day we are going to come upon something so great...! A typical eclectric will have on hand two kerosene lamps and an odd glass shade; three and a half branding irons (the handle was sheared off one, somewhat diminishing its usefulness); a few feet of rusty barbed wire, a handful of old postcards and several Avon bottles. He has a few old wooden tools soaking in oil to reduce the size of the cracks and any number of other goodies that all form a nucleus of a hoped for collection. The Psychology of Junking Nostalgia is an honest emotion and the junk collector exploits it for his own pleasure. We concern ourselves here with the collection of things you see and say, “Gee, I remember when Grandma used to have one of those.” Butter paddles, for instance, are easy to find and inexpensive to buy. Their value is in remembering your mother’s hands as she spanked, pushed and molded those little bits of butter into one lovely golden ball. Many people concentrate on collecting tools, kitchenware and the like that falls under the label of Americana, with an eye to the future. Dr. Philip Frandson of UCLA collects woodenware and granite Utensils. Not yet antiques, but totally out of use and production. It is almost inevitable that they will become valuable within a few years. Frandson says, “Americans are moving into an era in which virtually any functional item is becoming collectible.” He feels that we are becoming increasingly interested in and conscious of preserving our own heritage. Because we are in an era of rapid technology, we are also in an age of “instant antiques.’’ Things manufactured today are changed radically tomorrow. As a case in point, is the Coca-Cola trademark which was changed in 197 0. Instantly, all Coca-Cola items before 1970 became things of the past and are already being collected by the astute foresighter. Publications The respectability of junk collecting can be attested to by the number of newspapers and magazines published on the subject. “Collector’s Weekly,” “Tri-State Trader,” “The Antique Trader,” and “The Flea Marketeer” are populär weekly newspapers with articles about collections and ads for almost any old item that could be collected. “Hobbies to Enjoy,” “Deltiology” (a monthly journal for postcard collectors), ‘‘Collector’s World,” “Hobby Times,’’ Newspaper Collector’s Gazette,” “Collector’s News,” and “Hobbies” are a few of the magazines published which deal almost entirely with what the hoi polloi might call junk. Hundreds of books have been written about specific collectibles. Bottles are the subject of over two hundred books now in print - not to mention several monthly magazines! There is a book devoted to Roseville Pottery, and several on sugar sacs. 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