The collector bought it in 1991, but won't say for how much.

Collectors were buying not just art but a vision of America.

Today most collectors buy weights made in the mid-19th century.

You have the race up the studio stairs to see which collector can buy new work first.

Serious collectors, he said, buy wine and never drink it.

Ms. Beach said serious collectors should buy the best of a certain period or style.

Predictions are that private collectors will be buying as they did last spring.

The collector buys the clothes and maybe just keeps them.

Some collectors, usually those new to the game, buy them to be able to say they own them.

Collectors for the last 20 years have been buying not to sell, but to hold.