High-quality miniature copies of cars fascinate real collectors with their aesthetics. They are so similar to their prototypes: the same shine and smooth lines. But unlike real cars, they can be placed in your home, where they will become a highlight of...
Collections and collectors
Collections and collectors
Rolls-Royce Cullinan - a pearl among scale models
University of Virginia Collection of Ancient Chinese Books
The University of Virginia, one of the largest and best public research universities in the United States, invites its students to work with the original ancient texts that are stored in its library. An important part is made up of ancient Chinese books...
Kolts of Kievan Rus in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the 11th-13th centuries, one of the most common decorations on the territory of Kievan Rus was a metal pendant, known as a kolt. They fastened kolts to headdresses and decorated them in various ways: they covered them with enamel, filigree patterns...
Aurei of Trajan in the collection of Edward Wigan
The 19th-century British numismatist Edward Wigan was a well-known owner of a large collection of coins from the ancient world, from ancient Europe to Bactria. Many specimens have been examined and carefully described, in particular, Frederick William...
Jewelry of Kievan Rus in the collection of the British Museum
In the legendary British Museum, the collections of which we often mention in our articles, among the huge number of artifacts of antiquity and modernity, there are exhibits found on the territory of Ukraine. The jewelry of the 12th century, which we...
Gallic and British staters from the collection of Frederic Weber
The collection of the English dermatologist and numismatist Frederick Weber included coins of different cultures and periods, among which a significant number of copies belong to the ancient world. The British Museum has several gold staters made in...
Collection of dolls of the XIX-XX century in the Worthington Museum
The Doll Museum in the American city of Worthington (Ohio) gives an opportunity to look at how the toys of the past decades looked up to the XIX century. The museum's collection has been formed for more than 50 years, during which more than 1,100...
Space, science fiction and astronomy: how was a collector from Kiev able to combine these areas?
The largest collection of science fiction books, collaboration with Boris Strugatsky and collecting astronomical measuring instruments are topics covered by the host of the Listen to VIOLITY podcast Denis Minin and collector Yuri.
The guest of Denis...
Robert Soden's Collection of Gold Rings
Robert Henry Soden, curator of the Art Library in South Kensington, was born in 1822. He spent his childhood in Scotland, then was educated in Dublin. In 1857, he joined the South Kensington Museum in London. Soden was fond of collecting shells, bought...
Hans von Aulock's Collection of Antique Coins
German banker Hans Sylvius von Aulock collected coins during his life and collected a large collection of antique copies. Born in 1906, he was a Silesian nobleman, first worked at the bank as a deputy manager, after the Second World War he headed the...