David
back in the 1970s in an interview, the great artist of the Dick Tracy
comic strip - Chester Gould - was asked what was his favorite episode
was in the 46 years had been doing the strip. His answer ..... "the
one I'm working on right now"
my feeling is the same. The collection I'm working on now is "my peak year".
however, if you mean "what year did you spend the most $$ on your
collection" or "acquire the most great items".. probably 1990, when I
was still collecting comic art. But you know what.. my peak years of
1986-1992 were directly followed by my "sparest years". years in
which I turned away from my hobby. In 1992 I had one of the very best
collections of comic book & comic strip art known to exist and I
started selling it off in it's entirety in 1994, largely because
prices had gotten to where I would no longer buy for my collection
and preferred to move away from the hobby because I felt it had
become overpriced.
so it's possible that my peak years were peaked because:
1) prices were spiking, so I had to spend higher prices to get what I wanted
and
2) it was the period in which I was both one of the very top dealers
and very top collectors in that field
then the flame burned out & I added just a single piece of
inexpensive art to my collection ($200) and sold myself down to about
20 pieces I'm keeping (from about 1300 pieces of art that was only in
my collection. I had 3000 other pieces as well)
Now I'm spending money on posters instead.. and I love it!!
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