Re: building a campfire - sometimes it's just not right

"But owning 200 stoves probably has no practical use, even for non-novice poseurs, and are only valuabble for general education, as in museum pieces or an academic record."

That's true of collecting nearly anything. My stove collection is perhaps 50 or so, some of these I'll never have the time to light. In some cases I've collected speficif stoves simply because it's fun. With a number of sepcific stoves I could make a tidy profit by selling them on ebay and I doubt these will go down in value over time.