One Collector's Rabid Obsession
“Sharing a passion is what it is all about; it is both joyful and rewarding. It can be as simple as finding something new that is thrilling and exciting, introducing something unimagined, overlooked, or misunderstood.” — Dominic Strickland, 2021
People collect all sorts of things.
And as I mentioned in the essay for paid subscribers this week, the best collectors are also curators. What do curators do? They sort and group, give context, and tell stories.
Take Anthony Moss, for example. He’s a rabologist.
Oh, you don’t know what a rabologist is? Well, neither did I before I came across his book.
Rabologists collect canes and walking sticks, and as Joint Chairman of the Antique Walking Cane Society (London) and a member of the International Society of Cane Collectors (USA), Moss is an authority on the subject.
His expertise comes from his decades of collecting, which has resulted in a collection of some 2,500 walking sticks …
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