I finally have all my artillery and relics on one property, after all these years and having to move recently.
my question to you all is this; I have hundreds of shells. I am setting up my new relic room and a lot of them are just ' thrown' into my room up on shelves and such, lining the walls and in display cases. Very haphazard, to a purist collector, but in my opinion kinda cool as your eyes scan and find gems here and there as you go shelf to shelf, area to area. A treasure discovery everywhere you look.... so my dilemma is ; should I put them all in 'type' groups, and size increasing ?? I see this as sorta a negative - if someone doesn't care much about say, Hotchkiss or Federal shells at all for instance, than their eyes would flash right past this 'grouping' and onto the Selma's or Reads or something that holds their interest more.
And I realise I will never have one of every shell, nor do I desire to even go that route. I always have acquired what trips my interest.... so chronological grouping doesn't make much desire to me. Plus, I have tons [ literally ] of duplicates. What would I do with them ?? I know some of you are saying, ' sell them, dummy !! Do you really need 50+ Read shells !!"
Just looking for others opinions.... I think I talked myself into ' haphazard' as I typed this out, but...….