You can also choose to purchase collections of puzzles from the Guardian archive - 12 puzzles for £1.49.
In a world before scuba diving, underwater photography or ocean life surveys, the Blaschkas' models proved an invaluable educational resource, with universities worldwide purchasing collections of glass specimens.
Stupidest purchase A collection of ludicrous Vivien Westwood hats – £7,000.
She is also working on a novel, and hoping that a publisher will purchase her collection of short stories.
Oxford and Cambridge are joining forces to purchase a collection of Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts spanning one thousand years of Jewish history.
The local municipalities were able to purchase the collection at a relatively low sum, 600,000 euros (about $815,000), when they agreed to build a museum to house it.
On 1 July 1823 George Agar Ellis, a Whig politician, proposed to the House of Commons that it purchase the collection.
Consider whether you're willing to let someone else use your car, line of credit, shopping bags, whatever, to facilitate the purchase and collection of items.
This all changed in October 2009 when Harvard purchased the collection from the Updike estate, which is managed by Mrs. Updike.
A former Wellesley president, Caroline Hazard, purchased the collection of Browning letters and in 1930 donated them to Wellesley, where they have remained.
"All I can tell you is what Mr. Small told me -- that he purchased the collection from a dealer who represented that she had the proper permits.
