COLLECTING AS A PASTIME

Bronze Statuette for Gas. Circa 1850.

Plate I.

COLLECTING AS A
PASTIME

BY

CHARLES ROWED

With 68 Half-tone Illustrations

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1920

TO THE MEMORY
OF
C. H. R.

RAISON D’ÊTRE

This book is written, and the illustrations prepared, mainly to inspire, inform and amuse Amateur Collectors. In this I trust it will be successful, but I further hope that it may arrest the attention and stimulate the interest of many other readers.

The Author.

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