More than a few collectors admire only the decorative decoys, which include the miniatures, carved and painted to stand on a shelf.

Not all collectors and curators admire the look of this Maori treasure.

On the other hand, while other American collectors of the period admired Corot, the Havemeyers bucked fashion by eschewing his landscapes in favor of figure studies.

He rose and stood gazing at her for a moment, the way a collector admires the bright new butterfly he has just pinned to the board.

Some collectors simply admire certain guns.

What collectors admire, he said, are their pitted surfaces, resulting from a century or more of use, and their rich coloring - a mix of black, gray and brown.

Marcia Simon Weisman, a collector admired for her discerning taste in postwar American art and as a benefactor who helped found the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, died on Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

In the West, a collector of, say, beautiful pictures could only admire them hanging on a wall.