Pray for Japan

It has been a while since I blog about my antiques collection and old coins. I have been travelling a lot and unfortunately my presence in Yokohama has been disrupted by the shocking tsunami that swept quarter of the nation. Let us all pray for Japan. Relatives are still missing and hundreds of unidentified has been found everyday. God help us all.

The Things that People Collect.

People in general are collectors. We possess the things we love the most. No I am not talking about relationships. We hoard on items that we perceive has a fundamental and valuable value toward us. What are the things that you collect? Let us begin with the easy ones. Women generally loves to shop for handbags. Plural, more than one same item only with different brand. Women generally can not settle for one or two handbags but has to have more than a dozen in their wardrobe collection. They have to collect them. A simple collector's habit can be found in a female gender from a friendly-prejudice perspective. Please bare in mind that I am pointing this example based on general views. Now, can you think of the things that you like to collect?

Modern Chinese coins are one of the favourite things that I love to collect. I would buy triple of their present value price just to own it. It has been my passion and obsession to own them since I was 9 years old. Whenever I found old coins, the first thing I would examined is the details of the structure of the coin. My eyes will scanned the texture of the material, study the history behind it, the years of it. That's how I see a collectable items. Other stuffs that is famous amongst collector to own is stamps, gold, pure silver, tin can, limited editions of any classic literature or comics, keychains, antiques toys and a lot more. Here are some of my modern Chinese coins from Tibet. Also some of my miniature antiques.

miniature antiques( reproduction)

Tibet Coins

Check out the years in this little thing

Made from copper and other metals

Silver

Collector's Diary - The introduction

Passion is a desire each person has towards a field of interest. These passion drives to an obsession for some people. This obsessions could develop into a disease for a few people. I am actually talking about antiques item collector. It's mind-boggling and at time very curious to know why some serious collectors would go to a certain extent of effort and money to possess a particular item that does not hold any value to most normal people. Why do people collect stuff? There was a quote, "One man's junk can be another man's treasure". Before we ponder and wonder of this common habit of ours, let me show you some my so called passion, obsession or disease that i've been suffering from when it comes to collecting coins.

Around 2 million years ago, man was a hunter and women was a gatherer. Man would go out during the day and hunt for food so their woman and their offspring could survive. For woman, when their man is out in the woods looking for food, they would also went out to the rivers, hills of the mountains to gather things that can be made for clothes. Thais when women develop the need to look for something nice like flowers, plants, shiny rocks and pearls. It is funny to assume that from this simple theory of hunter and gatherer has a lot to do with people's hobby of collecting stuff or become an enthusiasts of a particular item. It seems like collector has a set of both criteria. They like to hunt for old and rare items and also keep it.