Good question Greg.
Interesting answers so far too.
I'll comment as someone who collects and has never been a dealer. 20 or so
years ago when I started collecting coins, I found that most of the better
dealers were the ones that collected as well. They had the knowledge and
enthusiasm of a collector and often understood the mentality of the collector
better than those who were just out to sell.
I found that many of these better collector/dealers would collect something
other than what they sold. For instance, they sold Morgan Dollars, but their
personal collecting was Half Cents. If noticed this a bit with meteorite
dealers who collect. I recently was visiting a local dealer who is focusing his
personal collecting on rare falls. Not exactly what he is necessarily known for
selling, but you could see how excited he was in by his micros, even though he
had much larger and attractive specimens in stock that I was drooling over.
I would imagine that most dealers got their start as a way to fund their
collecting, and I suspect that almost all collect something, even if their
collecting habits are not meteorites.
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Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
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