11.   Now the question is whether the new collectors will seek out unknown design talents of the period and create a new group of must-have modernist trophies.

12.   Push new collectors to educate themselves about memorabilia.

13.   They cultivated important new collectors like Barbra Streisand and Robert Bass, and continued to pay top dollar for important pieces.

14.   While longtime buyers were active everywhere last month during the winter antiques season in New York, it was the new collectors who reinvigorated the market for Americana.