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Hi, My
name is Juan Domingo Ventura, I’m 53, I’m married and I have one
daughter and two sons. I’m Dr. Industrial engineering,
I live in Badalona, a city near Barcelona ( Spain ) and I have to
say that I’m very glad for having been call to talk about
my collection. I
collect tickets of public transport from
the hole world. My
father started the collection in 1953 (1)
by making one including the
100.000 different numbers (2).
He was a doctor and he started collecting tickets when he was studying at
the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, and during this period almost every
student provided him with tickets. He died fifteen years ago, and at that
time he got a collection with 84.000 tickets and lost of repeated ones. I
continued the collection. Nowadays the collection with the 100.000 numbers
is finished, it took me one
year to find the last number that I had missed ( 62.112 ), I found it last
year. I
have extended the collection, first by making different ones of
palindromes (3).
I have 33 collections of this kind of tickets, for instance, I have one
with tickets from Argentina (4)
now finished thanks to the Círculo de Coleccionistas de Capicúas
de Buenos Aires (CCC) collaboration http://www.coleccionistas.4t.com
,
which I belong to. I’m also
making ticket collection
based on different concepts of number or set ( pitys (5),
reiteratives (6),
sets (7)
... ), and one collection with different kinds of tickets from de whole
world (8).
In all, I own more than 600.000 tickets, in tidy and classified
albums. For
me, my collection is not just a big box
plenty with lots of things , I like to have it classified and
documented. If we are talking about numbers or sets, their
classification are quite easy. What I have done to classify tickets
is: divide them by different countries, then cities, then companies or
lines, then printers, fare and antiquity... With the aim to classify just Barcelona tickets
I have been working for four years in the cataloguing of all the tickets
of this city ( that means catalogue 40.000 different tickets from 1872 (9) to nowadays (10) ). Of a result of this work a first volume of this classification has
been published (11).
I hope that in a not very long future I will open a web in which people will be able to consult this work
freely. This is an investigation work due to the fact that nothing else is
written on this matter. Lots of collectors have told me to show my
collection somehow, but I have to say that the only way is visiting me,
coming to my house where I have one room just dedicated to it ( my tickets
and their classification fill 18m2 of shelves ). More than one collector
has spent one evening with my collection and has realized that this time
wasn’t enough. On the other hand I have always handed over my
collection to whom has asked me for it. If you can spend a few days
visiting Barcelona you will find part of my collection exposed in one of
ours railway station in Barcelona, the one called Tarragona during the
first quarter of the 2000. But if you aren’t able to come,
you can also make a virtual visit in Internet ( I recommend you
the web of one friend Portuguese of mine, Álvaro Días
http://www.oocities.org/aldias47/
where you can see an example of my collection together with other
collectors ). One question that many people ask me is where I
found all the material that I need. I have to say that I had a very good
started with the collection my father gave me, then I have spent hours
searching in shops or street markets for tickets or even completed
collections, here in Barcelona ( which is one of the most important places
for collectors in Spain ) or in others cities. Lately, Internet has
been the great source for taking contact with collectors from the
hole world thanks to internet pages like
http://www.acoleccionar.com.ar
and http://www.oocities.org/aldias47/
where
you can find others Internet address thanks to the links
of Álvaro Días. I have also joined different associations
like CCC http://www.coleccionistas.4t.com
which
are related with my hobby. Thanks to all this facts, my collection is
growing day by day, I have made friends from the hole world with whom I
make swapping and my hobby has become a great entertainment without
spending lots of money. I want to give my regards to all the tickets
collectors from my city ( Badalona ), and I want you to know you can get
in touch with me for any question or for swapping. My e-mail address is pro2010@yahoo.es
. Juan Domingo
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