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Article: When hoarding became an art form; ANTIQUES.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- May 2, 1998
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In the annals of collecting there are records of German princes who swapped whole military regiments for rare porcelain.
Again, there were book collectors such as the 17th century Florentine eccentric, Magliabecchi, who slept among his rare additions on a wooden trough in a rat infested palace. But this scarcely compares with the nutter who cut out the marks from his rare porcelain collection and filed these discs in a coin cabinet. The porcelain itsel he threw in the bin.
But nothing is stranger or more frenzied than the sight of a collector weeping bitter ...