Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Who Collects What?

As soon as someone starts to collect something a word is invented  to describe the collector. Most end in- ist, which means a person who does something (as a motorist is someone who drives a car or a
violinist someone who plays a violin). Another ending is-phile or philist, which means a lover of something.

        Collectable                           Collector
  1. airmail stamps                     aerophilatelist
  2. autographs                            philographist
  3. badges and patches              scutelliphilist
  4. banknotes                             notaphilist
  5. beer bottle labels                 labeorphilist
  6. beer mats                             tegestologist or tegetologist
  7. books                                   bibliophile or bibliophilist
  8. butterflies and moths            lepidopterist
  9. cameos                                 cameist
  10. cheese labels                        laclabphilist
  11. cigar bands                           brandophilist/ cigrinophilist
  12. cigarette cards                      cartophilist
  13. coins, money, medals            numismatist
  14. corkscrews                            helixophile
  15. dolls                                      plangonologist
  16. eggs                                       oologist
  17. egg-cups                                pocillovist
  18. fags and banners                    vexillologist
  19. gramophone records              discophiilist
  20. keyrings                                 copoclephilist
  21. match books                           phillumenist
  22. matchboxes                            cumyxaphilist
  23. money boxes                          argyrothecologist
  24. postcards                               deltiologist
  25. prints and book illustrations   iconophilist
  26. shells                                      conchologist
  27. stamps                                    philatelist
  28. sugar packets                         sucrologist
  29. teddy bears                            arctophilist
  30. telephone cards                     fusilatelist
  31. arctophile                             -one who collects bear figures
  32. audiophile                            -an audio enthusiast (by extension: one who collects audio equipment
  33. discophile                             -one who collects phonograph records, now also includes CDs.
  34. errinophilist                          -one who collects revenue or tax stamps (NOT postage stamps).
  35. ex-librist                               -one who collects bookplates
  36. exonumist                              -one who collects numismatic items other than coins & paper money.
  37. heortologist                           -one who studies religious calendars (by extension: and collects).
  38. iconophile                             -one who collects prints, engravings, etc
  39. phonophile                             -one who collects phonograph records
  40. pyrographer                           -one who burns designs on wood or leather with hot instruments
  41. telegery                                  -one who collects telephone calling cards
  42. vecturist                                 -one who collects transportation tokens/tickets
  43. xylographer                            -one who makes woodcuts or engravings.

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