specullector
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of speculator + collector.
Noun edit
specullector (plural specullectors)
- (informal, derogatory) A buyer of art that speculates on its rising value.
- 2024 April 17, Charlotte Edwardes, “‘The money is not real – it’s a feckless level of wealth’: the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
- “Specullectors” spread risk by buying shares of a valuable work, with the explicit intention to resell when the market rises.