"It's a very small world," says Stewart Reid, a longtime collector in the San Diego area.

At the flea market or on Ebay, longtime collectors like myself are asking, "What can I collect that everyone else doesn't?"

Bruno Newman is a longtime collector, mostly of packaging and ordinary objects.

Museums often accept money from longtime collectors to mount exhibitions of their holdings.

Louis Mushro, the owner of Historical Hair, is a longtime collector of autographs and manuscripts.

A considerable part of the on-line auction crowd is made up of longtime collectors who buy and sell off line as well.

Dr. Kahn was a longtime collector of 20th century art.

It's a good time to sell, especially for longtime collectors who bought years ago.

He had been a longtime collector of the works of Robert Burns.