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davidcyclebackI used the definition to disqualify all or most of Bruce's potential candidates ("Sorry, not a collector." "Sorry, not a collector"). It was merely a rhetorical ploy. Notice, I never actually said I subscribed to the definition.
There was an old time, traditional definition of collecting that said a collector couldn't sell anything he collected, and if you sold something you weren't a collector. They had dealers and auctioneers and resellers back them, and if you sold your items you were be one of those. They didn't say you couldn't sell anything, but that you couldn't do it and call yourself a collector.
In the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movie 'Dressed to Kill,' there is a music box collector who expresses this collecting credo. A woman offers to buy a rare music box from him. He tells her he's a collector so can't sell it no matter what the offer. The only downer is she takes out a gun, kills him and takes the box.