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Collectors: Examining the Priority of our Passion

Most serious antiquities collectors I know exhibit a passion that rivals addiction, haunting museums mentally unlocking secrets of objects on display, scouring rarely visited archaeology sections of second-hand bookstores searching for long out-of-print volumes by past generations of scholars. They are devoted to assembling pieces of an unsolvable intellectual puzzle.

So how relevant is this obsession in light of a new world reality? Does our passion still have a role when faced with daily concerns about safety and security?

The tragic events of September 11 remind us that history is not the stuff of dusty books or of primary school memories. Every day, each of us contributes to an indelible imprint on the world from which future generations will draw their theories, reflections and postulations. We are not a spectator of history, we are an inescapable participant in it.

Perhaps it is this thought that enables all of us who admire the ancient world to feel ever closer to it now. When we reflect upon those rare "golden periods" of relative global peace, we do so with a perspective that can only be gained through living, not simply learning.

Our passions as collectors are more relevant now than ever. Our individual performances on history's stage are brief, but our role as temporary custodians of a shared past is crucial to how we collectively shape and build our society's future. Our sensitivity to the beauty and awe-inspiring perpetuity of the objects we so passionately study, admire, and collect, can only help to strengthen our resolve as individuals to make our homes, communities, countries, and world a more peaceful place for all.

John Ambrose
Director
Fragments of Time, Inc.