The past few weeks I've been swamped to say the 
least, and had very little time to do more than 
glance at this forum.  I admit that I haven't had 
time to read this whole thread, from what I have 
has been interesting.

From some of the comments here, I wanted to 
propose a "trap" I fell into with cel collecting 
over the past few years, and share my experience 
so hopefully no else makes the mistake.

I started my cel collecting almost 10 years ago. 
As I was able to get more money I was able to 
more and more (and better) cels.  This was great 
till I reached a plateau.  I already had many 
cels that I was quite happy with, and a sizeable 
collection.  

The mistake that I made was I started buying cels 
for the sake of a "collection".  This cel would 
look good with the other ones from this series, 
or this one would complement the other nicely.  
The problem here was a lot of these cels I had 
only meager interest in.  For example, at one 
time I had about 30 Tenchi cels, when all the 
chips were down I've ended up keeping 5 of them 
that I really really like, all the rest were for 
the sake of a "collection" that looked good in a 
cel book.  Not necessarily cels that I had a 
particular fondness to when looked at singlely.

Someone asked the question,"What makes a good 
collection?".  To that I've got 2 answers, 1.Who 
cares what anyone else thinks and 2.It only 
matters what you think and that you are happy.  
Collecting cels for 'collecting' purposes (like 
you want to collect cels of the Dragon Ball 
Villians for example) is great and fun, just 
collect them for yourself and not for anyone 
elses sake.  

Cheers,
Brian