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Originally Posted by Victrix
I think the Victorian collections bordered on the obsessive. o
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When you have that much money, more is better.
The arrays look impressive from a distance in the halls of those palatial mansions, or in old-style museum displays, but the serious collector wanting to focus on a particular thing hanging 15+ feet up on a wall needs binoculars and often has to deal with poor lighting (as is the case with the Stibbert, the Pitt-Rivers, and others).