How large is a typical sword collection?

I'm not sure one can define what a "typical" sword collection is, but I am just wondering roughly how many swords the members here have collected over the years. I have friends who own many hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of pocket watches, but swords take up a lot more room than watches. (My own watch collection was never that large, as I have focused on quality and I have chosen to specialize on particular scarce kinds of watches. It is fewer than 60 pieces today.) I inherited six swords from a late friend last year and have added seven since then, so I am now up to thirteen. But do most of the folks here count their collections in dozens, scores, or hundreds?
My "collection" totals ONE. It is an artillery short sword.
 
Did he have a specialty or a theme?
He had posted his cavalry swords, as a presentation and he seemed to be most focused on early federal swords, with single panels of a dozen swords of one variant that most might only encounter one piece. I'm abstracting but early cavalry and lots of them.

His posts, and that video on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1872584539698569/user/100004800812737/?

Other panels of belts, rigs and knots

 
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I'm not sure one can define what a "typical" sword collection is, but I am just wondering roughly how many swords the members here have collected over the years. I have friends who own many hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of pocket watches, but swords take up a lot more room than watches. (My own watch collection was never that large, as I have focused on quality and I have chosen to specialize on particular scarce kinds of watches. It is fewer than 60 pieces today.) I inherited six swords from a late friend last year and have added seven since then, so I am now up to thirteen. But do most of the folks here count their collections in dozens, scores, or hundreds?
Hard to answer but it's the ones you have the ones you want the I can't pass it up for the price the never saw that before the it was calling me from across the room comparing it my wife's shoes xE=mc2 should give you an approximate number
 

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