Transcriber’s Note In the following transcription, italic text is denoted by _underscores_ while bold text is denoted by =equal signs=. Small capitals in the original text have been transcribed as ALL CAPITALS. See end of this document for details of corrections and other changes. —————————————— Start of Book —————————————— [Illustration: REAR VIEW OF THE STATUE OF PROFESSOR KILGALLEN IN FLORAL PARK CITY, FLORIDA Note the manner in which the sculptress denotes motion and vibration by the addition of the stump, which expresses with one bold stroke the action of the subject in rising from meditation. Visitors to Floral Park City are advised to walk all around the statue in order to get these different expressions of mood. ] THE COLLECTOR’S WHATNOT _A Compendium, Manual, and Syllabus of Information and Advice on all Subjects Appertaining to the Collection of Antiques, both Ancient and not so Ancient_ Compiled by CORNELIUS OBENCHAIN VAN LOOT, MILTON KILGALLEN AND MURGATROYD ELPHINSTONE [Illustration] Boston and New York _Houghton Mifflin Company_ The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The First Edition of _The Collector’s Whatnot_ consists of 3127 copies, as follows: Twenty-seven on choicest domestic leaf, bound in teakwood, with leather hinges, numbered A to &, with the Authors’ thumb-prints in red ink in each copy. Three thousand one hundred copies on American antique wove, bound in manila boards. The Second Edition consists of one thousand pure and pink copies, bound to sell. The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. _To_ The Resigned Husbands and Wives of All True Collectors This Book is most feelingly DEDICATED [Illustration] PREFACE The American Academy for the Popularization of Antiquities was formed on February 14, 1911, by Eben S. Twitchett, B.B.S., Cornelius Obenchain Van Loot, D.A., C.O.J., Raymond L. Pry, A.B., A.M., S.I.W., and Professor Milton Kilgallen, F.R.S., of Balliol College. The present volume is largely made up of the papers delivered by these distinguished pedants before their equally distinguished society.