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Post by cheshirecat51 on Mar 13, 2008 16:49:02 GMT -5
I'd like to hear from others who collect Alice. What do you collect? I collect what I like. It can be any version of Alice (Tenniel, Disney, or other). I especially like Alice books, paper goods, vintage items, foreign items, and figurines.
My whole house has Alice items everywhere! I have been collecting Alice for about 15 years. I guess you could say, "I'm mad!!!!"
Wendy
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Post by bettyboop on Mar 14, 2008 7:43:45 GMT -5
I'd like to hear from others who collect Alice. What do you collect? I collect what I like. It can be any version of Alice (Tenniel, Disney, or other). I especially like Alice books, paper goods, vintage items, foreign items, and figurines. My whole house has Alice items everywhere! I have been collecting Alice for about 15 years. I guess you could say, "I'm mad!!!!" Wendy I collect jigsaw puzzles! I have about 200, and my husband is threatening to leave me! Any other collectors of puzzles out there?
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Post by sheerlucksympaticoca on Mar 17, 2008 21:31:50 GMT -5
My friends jokingly call mine "the collection of flat things". I collect Alice advertising, sheet music, paper dolls and cutouts. I love card decks and some postcards. They are not too expensive or heavy and take up little space. I have lots of other Alice things but these are my passion.
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Post by pleasance1 on Mar 24, 2008 1:50:17 GMT -5
I think collecting "Alice" is a good sort of madness...I have had it for about 10 years and it shows no sign of abating. I collect what I can find! Books seem to be the easiest, and it seems there is always a new, old or different edition of Alice to be found. I don't mind Disney items, in fact I am quite sad that the Disney Stores no longer operate in the Antipathies, as I bought quite a few Alice items through them.
I am always on the look out for Carrollian items, but as there is no particular place where they will turn up, it is a bit of serendipity when I find something. It is always a frabjous day when I do find something though!
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Post by bettyboop on Apr 6, 2008 8:28:31 GMT -5
I like 'good sort of msdness' - should be a title of something!
What's the nuttiest collection of Carrolliana ever encountered?
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Post by johntufail on Apr 6, 2008 17:34:10 GMT -5
I would sat selwyn Goodacre's book collection. The reason being that Selwyn is, by all accounts, a serious student of Carroll and his life. he has written many articles on Carroll's biography.
Yet, because he is also a collector. He understands the importance of keeping what he collects in pristine condition.
For example, he owns a copy of Tyrwhitt's 'Hugh Heron'. Tywhitt was a close friend of Carroll during those crucial years of the 1850's. He was also the inciment of St Mary's, the parish church of Chist Churc h College. he was also a keen photographer.
Hugh Heron is a fictional work, about a young person's experiences at Christ Church College based in precisely the period that Carroll and Tywhitt were close friends. Yet vecause the copy that Selwyn has is uncut, he has never read it and won't let anyone else read it. The only other copy I know of is the copyt held in the British Library.
Now that is what I call weird!
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Post by joelbirenbaum on Apr 7, 2008 23:01:42 GMT -5
I agree that Selwyn has the weirdest collection, but it's not for the reason you gave, John. Really, what collector would let anyone read their books. Books, like people, should be kept in the dark, as sunlight is not beneficial to either of them. Back to the question at hand. Selwyn is trying to collect every printing of the Macmillan Alice. Why would anyone want to do that? They're all the same except for a comma here and a double quote there. You might as well try to list all those changes... oh yeah, he has. Understand this comment comes from someone with 1,800 Alice/Carroll related books, some in languages he can't even read. Each to his own. I'm sure Selwyn has more books than I do, but he once said that I must have the best collection of Alice ceramics, and just maybe he is right. It's not that there is a competitive aspect to collecting - yeah sure.
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Post by bettyboop on Apr 8, 2008 4:57:32 GMT -5
I've heard of Selwyn Goodacre. Is he the bibliographic expert? And Joel - you run the LCSNA website?
Lovely company!
I have a friend who collects biscuit tin lids. Not Carroll-weird, but certainly odd!
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Post by joelbirenbaum on Apr 8, 2008 6:19:55 GMT -5
Biscuit tins are a fine item to collect, but just the lids? It must be difficult to hold the biscuits. This sounds like one of the White Knights own inventions. We all know that Carroll went bonkers when he learned that the Looking-Glass biscuit tin that he authorized was to be sold with biscuits! He was upset that people would assume that he endorsed the biscuits. As he didn't seem to eat much, I'm not sure what the weight of such an endorsement would be. At any rate the original tin is quite scarce. There have been several tins since (not all biscuit tins) that are a bit easier to find and make very nice collectibles. You should come to the LCSNA meeting on April 25 and meet Selwyn and me in person. I understand there will be a copy of Antiquarian Book Review from July 2002 in the auction, which contains articles on collecting Carroll/Alice by those two infamous collectors. We will also be viewing 3 members' personal collections and meeting at the Library of Congress. I wouldn't miss it, if I were you. See you there.
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Post by frockmaker on Apr 8, 2008 21:54:35 GMT -5
Weird collections - once worked with a guy who had a wall of his house covered in old tic-tac boxes. He was insane.
Weird Carroll stuff - A friend of mine tells me about a guy who has four foot high models of the Tenniel images in his living room. Not sure if it's weird (or even true), but it does seem highly extreeeeme.
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Post by Jules on Apr 9, 2008 4:59:19 GMT -5
Did he put things in the tic-tac boxes?
I think the four-foot high Tenniel models sound cool! Where did he get them?
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Post by mikeindex on Apr 9, 2008 9:38:01 GMT -5
Weird Carroll stuff - A friend of mine tells me about a guy who has four foot high models of the Tenniel images in his living room. Not sure if it's weird (or even true), but it does seem highly extreeeeme.If we are talking about the same man - yes it's perfectly true. And extreme. And weird. I visited the guy's house once - very M.R. James. (Going off at a tangent, wouldn't CLD have loved M.R. James?) Mike
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Post by pleasance1 on Apr 12, 2008 9:52:25 GMT -5
There is a TV program in Australia that features collectors and their collections. It's appropriately called "The Collectors"; it is something like "Antique Roadshow" but is not limited to collecting old items. The collections range from the typical (model trains) to the beautiful (Art deco jewellery) to the downright bizare (teeth, real and false). The one unifying factor with all the collectors is the "good sort of madness" which seems to differ in degree rather than kind.
Charles Dodgson seems to have been something of a collector too; he seems to have had an interest in the mechanical and technological wizardry of his day.
So far no Alice collections have featured but it's only a matter of time.
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Post by bettyboop on Apr 13, 2008 4:06:52 GMT -5
Hey Joel - might just do that! I never join things as a rule, don't know why, apathy probably!
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Post by joelbirenbaum on Apr 13, 2008 10:19:02 GMT -5
bettyboop, if you wait long enough to join, then procrastination will far outweigh your apathy. Are you a fan of Betty Boop in Wonderland?
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