Miniatures - Collecting

Your best starting point for collecting miniatures is a toy shop, the toy department of a department store, or any five-and-ten-cent store. A dollar can purchase several items. However, it is not advisable to rush in and buy everything in sight. In other words, don't buy it just because it's small; buy it because you like it and because it's small.

Your collecting can cover a broad area and include anything at all small enough to be classified as a miniature. The chances are, however, that you will decide to specialize after you have been collecting for a time. This speciality need not be restricted to just one category. It may include two or even more, such as dolls and dolls' furniture, or china, glassware, and flatware.

Other sources of miniatures are antique shops, crafts shops, and mail order dealers. You will find "Miniatures for Sale" ads in Hobbies, the Chicago monthly that serves as a never-failing source of inspiration and information for collectors; and every once in a while they will turn up in the classified ad sections of your local newspapers. Miniatures of one sort or another—little wooden monkeys, mermaids, tiny towers, smaller seals, miniscule bear cubs—can be found on souvenir counters all over the world. And if there is another hobbyist in your family, you may have yet another source of supply; one of the most fascinating of "production" hobbies is making miniature models.

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