There
are lots of myths and legends around the term “collectible”.
The great objects of art and the signed furniture are usually considered
as the only objects that are worth to be exhibited in antiques stores.
The rest of the objects are called “collectibles”. It is considered,
in a wrong way, that the collectibles are a worthless category. This is
a classification problem. There are not high or low categories, but different
economic possibilities of the collector. Everything can be collectable:
great sculptures, cars, diary use objects. The collectible is part of
the memory and the history that lives around it. For example, the beer
bottles were imported from Glasgow (Scotland) in 1880 because Argentina
had 80 beer factories but none bottles factories. These bottles came on
ships that didn´t pay bills, so it was cheaper to import them. These
objects are made of very noble materials and factory and they also take
part of the beer industry history in Argentina.
These
objects are usually part of the practical and tangible reference of different
civilizations and they are studied by sociologists and anthropologists.
In San Telmo were discovered several tunnels and basements that hided
little pieces of English china from 1700, sylver teaspoons, corkscrews,
gin bottles, etc. between the dust and the rubble.
The collectible has to resist the magnifying glasses of the antiquarian
and the collector.
The material and the factory have to be nobles, to achieve the category
of “work of art”. |
There
are common cigar cases, but there are also extraordinary ones, made of
sylver, ivory or tortoiseshell. These are the ones I try to rescue. The
other ones I give them as a YAPA.
The collectible is not a common or repeated object. Is a little work of
art that is meant to discover. Of course, the most difficult to find and
the most exquisite ones are the most expensive ones.
In the antiques market every day appears a new object was not important
before. Many times an object can take relevance because it is not made
any more, so it appears as a rare object, something difficult to find… like a treasure. There are collectors and collectibles and they need each
other. The antique store is a place where they can meet each other.
What
do people look for?
We look for something to lend to ourselves, because it brings up memories,
because the piece is beautiful, or because it remembers us of the past
civilizations. There are different kinds of collectors, as many as the
variety of the collectibles. There are cars collectors that look for everything
that has to do with his object, but there are also collectors that have
not so many possibilities, so they search, they walk, they investigate
and makes a collection that talks about his own collector´s history.
This also has an important value. For example, there are people that collect
by themes (love, war, animals, etc.). It is not an easy task to discover
the good and interesting things of the objects. You have to work harder,
use your wits, analyze, reed more books, visit more museums, be more informed.
And beyond all, you have to love it, because this is the essence of the
collector and the collections marchand.
The collection has to be displayed in an adequate place, where all the
objects can be exhibited clearly. Having a depot is not necessary for
the task, because it would made it an accumulation of pieces.
Elías Wachs
únicamente atención telefónica 4362 -7793 / 4300-0688
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works... and collectibles items.