It’s fun to read James Lileks account of his trip to a postcard convention where he bought, among other items, some old Wrigley’s gum wrappers with NRA logos on them. (Michael says: “The NRA on the Wrigley’s gum label that James Lilek writes about is for President Roosevelt’s Depression-era National Recovery Administration and not the logo for the National Rifle Association.”)
I’ve been around this hobby long enough to know that Completion is the worst thing that can happen to a collector. It’s invariably followed by Liquidation. People finish the job, and that’s it; they sell, they move along, they tire, they look at the books with all the pictures arrayed by date or artist or type or style, and something just gives way, and they can’t bear to have it any more. Out it goes, and a new collection begins.
