The scientific classification of collections is crucial to the development of collection science. Collection friends’ homes often say that the classification is as follows:
1. Cultural relics: including historical cultural relics and ancient buildings Physical materials, sculptures, inscriptions, utensils, folk art, stationery, entertainment supplies, opera props, arts and crafts, revolutionary cultural relics, etc. The utensils include gold and silver ware, tin-lead ware, lacquer ware, ritual utensils, furniture, fabrics, carpets, clocks, tobacco bottles, fans, etc.; the arts and crafts include material utensils, enamel, purple sand, wood carvings, rattan and bamboo utensils, etc. 2. Calligraphy and painting: including calligraphy, inscriptions, rubbings, traditional Chinese painting, oil painting, watercolor painting, gouache painting, lacquer painting, comic strips, etc. 3. Ceramics: including pottery, porcelain, purple clay pottery, etc.
4. Jade items: including jade ritual items, jade weapons, jade utensils, and jade furnishing items. 5. Jewelry, famous stones and ornamental stones: including carved jadeite for jewelry, as well as various naturally formed inkstones, seal stones, strange stones and ornamental stones that have not been artificially carved, such as China's four major strange stones: "Dongpo Meat Shape" "Stone", "Years", "Chinese Condor", "Chicken Out of the Shell".
6. Coins: including ancient coins of all ages and currencies of various countries in the modern world. 7. Stamps: including stamps from all over the world and other collections related to philately. 8. Literature: including books, newspapers, archives, photos, movie and drama manuals, posters and other written materials.
9. Ticket category: including tax stamps, lottery tickets, tickets, commodity tickets, transportation tickets, and monthly tickets.
10. Model category: including trains, cars, airplanes, spaceships, warships, tanks, etc., exquisite models made in proportion to the real objects.
11. Badge category: including commemorative medals, medals, badges and other various badges. 12. Trademark categories: including sparklers, cigarette labels, wine labels, and candy wrappers. 13. Specimens: including animal specimens, plant specimens, mineral specimens, etc. Collectible categories that are relatively popular in the auction market and sought after by collectors include calligraphy and painting, ceramics, jades, jewelry, famous stones, watches, etc. These are also commonly referred to as large collections by collectors. Some other collections are usually called miscellaneous items by collectors. The collection is divided into four categories: natural history, art history, human history and popular science history.
Natural history includes insect specimens, marine life and specimens, rain flower stones, strange stones and wing paintings, which are mainly various objects in nature;
Art history includes cigarette labels and smoking utensils , sparklers, miniature sculptures, tea sets, porcelain carvings, arts and crafts, calligraphy and painting, etc.;
Humanities and history: mainly books, newspapers, materials, folklore and other items;
Popular science history Categories include calculation tools, clocks, keys, wine collection, etc.
This classification method has certain merits because of its greater inclusiveness, but it is limited to private collections and is not a classification for collections. .