Advice To Collectors

This has got to be the most honest advice ever from a collector's guide book:

McKeown's book states this advice for camera collectors:

1."If you pass up the chance to buy a camera you really want, you will never have that chance again."

2."If you buy a camera because you know you will never have the chance again, a better example of the same camera will be offered to you a week later for a much lower price."

3. "The intrinsic value of an antique or classic camera is directly proportional to the owner's certainty that someone else wants it." - Dan Adams.

These observations should apply to any item, just substitute your obsession for camera.

So The Dean notes in his article Antique and Collectible Guide Books, Lalique to Hummel Collections as he quotes from McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras. (Which explains why I had not read that before; I don't collect cameras, but prefer what's on the other side of them. *wink*)