1. Cultural relics: including historical relics, physical objects of ancient buildings, sculptures, inscriptions, utensils, folk works of art, stationery, entertainment supplies, theatrical props, arts and crafts, revolutionary cultural relics, etc. Among them, utensils include gold and silver wares, tin and lead wares, lacquerware, utensils, furniture, fabrics, carpets, clocks, hookahs, fans and so on. Crafts include utensils, enamel, purple sand, wood carving, rattan and bamboo. 2. Calligraphy and painting: including calligraphy, rubbings, traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, watercolor painting, gouache painting, lacquer painting and comics. 3. Ceramics: including pottery, porcelain, purple sand pottery, etc.
4. Jade articles: including jade ritual vessels, jade weapons, jade vessels and jade furnishings. 5. Jewelry, famous stones and ornamental stones: including carved jade jewelry, as well as various natural inkstones, Yin Shi, strange stones and ornamental stones that have not been artificially carved, such as the four famous stones in China: Dongpo special-shaped stone, time-honored sculpture and egg shell.
6. Coins: including ancient coins of past dynasties and currencies of countries in the modern world. 7. Stamp category: including stamps from all over the world and other philatelic collections. 8. Literature: including books, newspapers, archives, photos, film and drama manuals, posters and other written materials.
9. Vouchers: including tax stamps, lottery tickets, door tickets, commodity tickets, transportation tickets and monthly tickets.
10, model class: including trains, cars, planes, spaceships, warships, tanks, etc. , and exquisite models made according to the physical scale.
1 1. Badge: including commemorative badges, medals, badges and other badges. 12. Trademarks: including sparks, cigarette labels, wine labels and candy paper. 13. Specimens: including animal specimens, plant specimens and mineral specimens. The collections sought after by Tibetan friends in the auction market mainly include calligraphy and painting, ceramics, jade, jewelry, famous stones and watches, which are commonly known as large collections by Tibetan friends. Other collections are usually called miscellaneous by Tibetan friends. The collection is divided into four categories: natural history, art history, humanities history and popular science history.
Natural history includes insect specimens, marine life and specimens, rain flower stones, strange stones and wing paintings, that is, all kinds of objects in nature are the main ones;
Art history includes cigarette labels, smoking utensils, sparks, micro-sculptures, tea sets, porcelain sculptures, arts and crafts, calligraphy and painting, etc.
Humanities and history: mainly books, newspapers, materials, folk customs and other items;
The history of popular science includes computing tools, clocks, keys, wine containers and so on.
This classification has some merits because of its inclusiveness, but it is limited to private collections rather than collections. .