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Collecting vs Scripophily - What's the difference?

collecting | scripophily |

As nouns the difference between collecting and scripophily

is that collecting is a hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector while scripophily is the hobby of collecting paper documents, particularly business stock certificates.

As a verb collecting

is .

collecting

English

(wikipedia collecting)

Noun

  • A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
  • * 2009 , Melissa A Hardy, ?Alan Bryman, Handbook of Data Analysis (page 568)
    • The task of data gathering is not a random walk, a sensual search, or the bemused collectings of a beachcomber.

    Verb

    (head)

    • scripophily

    English

    Noun

    (scripophilies)
  • The hobby of collecting paper documents, particularly business stock certificates.

    • Related terms

    * scripophile