Reflections on Collecting: Still Musing on Collecting and American Antiques (Musings on Collecting, #3)

by Baron Perlman

Overview

Reflections on Collecting exemplifies the world of American antiques, welcoming and supporting all in the collecting universe. Anyone who wants to understand and appreciate collecting and collectors needs this book.

A long-time collector, Dr. Perlman presents – with grace, humbleness, and humor – an explanation on what makes collectors tick, an exploration of the decisions and emotions collectors experience, and the discoveries, wanderings, and wonderment of collecting.

 This book

·       Describes collector characteristics, including resilience and aesthetic appreciation.

·       Focuses on the collector experience like failure, awe, joy, love, and desire.

·       Looks at what affects collectors such as good luck, seduction, and the casting of spells.

·       Explores what collecting involves – pitfalls, finds, and paradoxically the value of quitting, among others.

·       Asserts that collecting is indeed a noble odyssey.

Pick up Reflections on Collecting and immerse yourself in the collector's universe, a world Baron Perlman beseeches you to love, as he does. Let the collecting adventures begin.

 Reflections on Collecting is the third book in the Musings on Collecting Series. Pick up Book 1: Come Collect With Me, and Book 2: The Collector's World.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940181331969
Publisher:	Baron Perlman
Publication date:	04/11/2025
Series:	Musings on Collecting
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Baron Perlman is a long-time collector of American decorative arts. His childhood and teen focus on stamps, comic books, and baseball cards was supplanted by American antiques. He was born to collect.
Born in Chicago Perlman attended Lawrence University (Appleton, WI) and then Michigan State University where he earned his master's and doctorate in clinical psychology. He served in the U.S. Army including a tour in Viet Nam.
Most of his professional life was spent in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and in consulting. His applied work as a clinical psychologist including just plain listening and trying to "make sense of" serves him well as a collector. He is now joyfully retired.
His interests in collecting and writing have led to numerous columns that continue to be published in Maine Antique Digest. He also pens a monthly column for the local newspaper, the Oshkosh Northwestern, about local, state and national matters – involving the interactions of three people in a bar (about as Wisconsin as one can get).
Married almost 50 years, his wife Sandy joins him in collecting. They have lived in Oshkosh, Wisconsin for a long time and have two sons and three cats. Neither son is as consumed with collecting as their dad is. Nor are the cats.