What are the types of collectibles?
The scientific classification of collectibles is very important to the development of collectors' studies. Generally, there are many classifications:
1. Cultural relics: including historical relics, physical materials of ancient buildings, sculptures, inscriptions, utensils, folk works of art, stationery, recreational supplies, props of operas, arts and crafts, revolutionary cultural relics, etc.
The utensils include gold and silver wares, tin and lead wares, lacquerware, utensils, furniture, fabrics, carpets, clocks, hookahs, fans, etc.
Arts and crafts include feeder, enamel, purple sand, wood carving, rattan and bamboo ware, etc.
2. Calligraphy and painting: including calligraphy, rubbings, rubbings, traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, watercolor painting, gouache painting, lacquer painting and comic books.
3. Ceramics: including pottery, porcelain and purple sand pottery.
4. Jade articles: including jade ritual vessels, jade seals, jade utensils and jade furnishings.
5. Jewelry, famous stones and ornamental stones: including carved jade jewelry, as well as all kinds of inkstones, Yin Shi, strange stones and ornamental stones that are naturally formed without artificial carving.
6. Coins: including ancient coins of past dynasties, currencies of modern countries and RMB that has stopped circulating.
7. Stamp category: including stamps from all over the world and related stamp collections issued by China Post Company.
8. Literature: including books, newspapers, archives, photos, movie and drama instructions, posters and other written materials.
9. Tickets: including tax stamps, lotteries, door tickets, commodity tickets, traffic tickets, monthly tickets, ancient food stamps, etc.
1. Model category: including trains, cars, airplanes, spaceships, warships, tanks, etc., and exquisite models made in proportion to the real objects.
11. Badges: including commemorative badges, medals, badges and other badges and commemorative badges.
12. Trademarks: including sparks, cigarette labels, wine labels and candy paper.
13. Specimens: including animal specimens, plant specimens and mineral specimens.
14. Other categories
Collectibles that are popular in the auction market and sought after by Tibetan friends mainly include calligraphy and painting collectibles, ceramics collectibles, jade articles, jewelry collectibles, famous stones, watches and other collectibles, which are also commonly called large-scale collections by Tibetan friends. Other collections are usually called miscellaneous items by Tibetan friends.
Collections are divided into four categories: natural history, artistic history, humanistic history and popular science history.
Natural history includes insect specimens, marine life and specimens, rain flower stones, strange stones and wing paintings, that is, all kinds of natural objects are the main ones;
Art history includes cigarette labels, smoking sets, sparks, micro-carvings, tea sets, porcelain carvings, arts and crafts, calligraphy and painting, etc.
humanities and history: mainly books, newspapers, materials, folk customs and other items;
Popular science history includes calculators, clocks and watches, keys, and wine storage.
this classification has some merits because of its greater inclusiveness, but it is only limited to private collections, not to collections.
2. Market classification of common collectibles in China
1. Stall trading market
Stall trading market is a collection market formed spontaneously or organized, and most of them trade on fixed dates, such as weekends, but it is usually relatively deserted. Most vendors are highly mobile in the market, so it is often difficult to establish long-term trading relations with collectors, and they often buy and sell with one hammer. In addition, due to the great mobility, there are many counterfeits in this market, mainly imitations, covering bronzes, jades, ceramics, calligraphy and painting, ivory carving, coins, Four Treasures of the Study and so on.
2. Store trading market
In the store trading market, collectible stores all belong to fixed business premises, and the number of fakes is relatively small compared with the stall trading market. Generally speaking, the owner of a collectible store often likes and delves into a certain kind or several kinds of collections, and is not necessarily familiar with other kinds of collections. Therefore, there is a certain chance for collectors to buy the collections that the owner is not familiar with. However, in this kind of market, buyers and sellers are often prone to deadlock in bargaining, depending on personal communication skills.
3. Mail-order trading market
Mail-order trading market belongs to store-free sales. Buyers and sellers don't meet each other directly. Information is transmitted by the media and goods are transmitted through postal networks. Generally, advertisements are published in newspapers and magazines of collectibles or mail-order catalogues of collectibles are distributed by themselves to convey information to collectors. Because it is impossible to identify the spot, this kind of mail order transaction method is prone to fraud and other risks, which must be highly valued by collectors.
4. Auction market
This is a kind of market that people are familiar with. Article 3 of the Auction Law of the People's Republic of China clearly stipulates that auction refers to the way of buying and selling specific goods or property rights to the highest bidder in the form of public bidding. This form is conducive to fully mobilizing the buyer's enthusiasm for shopping, and can better adapt to the market form dominated by the buyer's market in the world today.
China Auction House Since 24, the total turnover of Beijing auction house has surpassed that of Hong Kong, and Beijing has increasingly become the auction center of China art with the largest turnover, especially in ceramics, jade, China paintings and calligraphy, stamps and rare books of ancient books.
5. Online trading market
With the development of science and technology, the online display and trading of collectibles can be realized by means of computer network technology and fund settlement technology. In this kind of market, buyers can't see the real objects of the collectibles, but only the relevant information of the collectibles. By adopting this trading method, collectors are not limited by time and space, and the collection display is not limited by space, and the information can be more detailed, saving a lot of transaction costs.
Many online companies and auction companies in China have been trying to expand the online trading market of collectibles. Although this kind of market has convenience advantages, it also has great fraud risks. It can be predicted that with the technological innovation and system improvement of trading mode, the development prospect of this trading market is very considerable.