Collecting Cigarette Lighters

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We can only guess how cavemen made thier fires, methods of making light date back to antiquity. Some people collect all forms of lighting such as matches and candles. Let's delve more on collecting cigarette lighters after all they been around since the 1900's. Collectors are not all over themselves just to acquire the items. They are all over the place, jumble sales, flea markets everywhere.

To make the collection more interesting is to accumulate lighters showing the development from birth. If not, you could collect to a theme. For example you could only collect unusual or odd designs.

You could collect petrol, butane or modern electronic lighters. Other themes might include commemoratives, lighters that are marked for coronations, jubilees or specific designs such as art deco or art noveau.

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Storage and Display

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To make the greatest impact your collection should be stored and displayed in an approriate and creative manner. If you collect buttons, it's nice if you will sew them in a white or black wool cloth not the thinner sheets so that it won't crease easily and then hang it on the wall. Cigarette cards, music labels, photorgraphs and share certificates are best displayed under a glass and framed.

For big bulky items such as gramaphones, iron stands, typewriters and sewing machines you'll need plenty of room, but if you are really an avid collector of these you dont mind to be sleeping in a mat, just to make room if your prized collections

Chinaware, jelly moulds could be shown in an open shelved unit but for more expensive ware a glassed cabinet preferably with locking doors is a must.

Display your collection in the context of your surroundings, like if you collect shakers and decanters of course you display it in your homebar, jelly moulds,baking pans,salt and pepper shakers(just to name a few) in the kitchen etc.

Finally if you have very precious collection like jewelries that you don't want it to be handled too much, why don't you just take photographs and display these on an album?

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What makes a collection interesting?

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Whatever knicknacks you decided to collect make sure that you collect to a theme. For example if you like to collect books, it would be more interesting if you collect works by the same author, or books of the same subjects. It's even more interesting if you can tie it up with another hobby of yours. Let's say if your into photography, you could collect books about photography. or gardening or even cooking.

Another example is if you collect autographs. Your collection will be more valuable(if you are collecting as an investment)if you collect autographs of players of the same team. Or autographs of players of different teams but they are all goalies or perhaps quarterbacks. Interesting right? just collect thematically.

When i was in my teens i collected stamps of the same color, if not i collected stamps from the same country, or subjects like sports , vintage cars and birds. At that point it was all very interesting to me. Though i didn't get to attend auctions. It would have been more gratifying as far as experience is concern.

My most prized collection is a set of paperback books by lawrence sanders. It took me nine years to accumulate it. Imagine, nine years of free afternoons and evenings hunting down secondhand bookstores, I finally completed all the works of lawrence sanders.My collection of his books finally concluded when my favorite writer left this planet.As cliche as it may sound, but the enjoyment is in the hunting.

So if you have already started your collection or thinking of starting, just do it with a subject or motiff or theme in mind.

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