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Here's a pile of pre-war and WWII flight helmets laid out on my dinning room table. All Army Air Corps. There really rare ones in this pile. It was like Christmas day going through them all.
That's one hell of a collection! And that's hoarding, if ever I saw it: the Wiktionary explains that as "to amass, usually for one's personal collection."