Sharing Hobby Interest With A Monster

I believe that the late actor, Raymond Burr, also was a collector.

Huh? I don't understand the asides...about other collectors. The implication is that Raymond Burr, John Lennon and Ayn Rand were monsters.

I don't think it was meant that way nor do I personally take it that way. By citing some obvious non-monsters, I think the point was to list some other prominent collectors who might shed a better light on the collecting community.

One needs to be careful with "guilt by association", for lack of a better term here, as it can easily be taken too far. Hitler and Stalin breathed air; I also breathe air. Does that make me equal to Hitler and Stalin? All of us share something in common with the worst examples humanity has ever produced. That doesn't make us share in their guilt for their atrocious acts.

In honor of it being October, it's worth mentioning that Count Dracula himself, the late, great Bela Lugosi from Lugos, Hungary (at least now it's Hungary) was an avid collector of his home nation's stamps. Many a picture of him on the Universal backlot in the mid-30's when he was working with Boris Karloff on movies like THE BLACK CAT and THE RAVEN where he's going through his albums.. He kept up his collection up to his later days, but his son Bela Jr. has no idea what happened to it. He might have sold them in the early 50's when he was going through his dark days of drug addiction (a result of a hospital stay that hooked him on Opium), but it's not really known. His widow Hope doesn't know much about them, but then she married him in the late 40's.