As evidenced by my need for a display cabinet, I have a decent-sized nativity collection.
I didn’t start out to collect nativities, it just sort of happened. While in college, I worked with international students. After one particularly taxing event that we worked on, some of my friends from Palestine gave me this lovely nativity:
The next year, they gave me these:
And when I graduated, they gave me this:
They’re all carved from olive wood. Gorgeous!
Even though I now had four nativities, I didn’t consider myself a collector. After all these were simply lovely gifts from some lovely friends.
And, I suppose, that’s how collections often get started.