Taste DNA
Discover Your Collecting DNA
Thirty objects. Two choices. A new way to discover what you love.
Every object is from an Abell catalogue. Press Love or Pass — or swipe right or left on a phone. At the end you get a collecting profile and lots in our auctions picked to match it.
What’s your Abell?
Your Collecting Profile
A playful guide to your taste, worked out from what you loved, passed on and saved — not a scientific assessment, and not a valuation.
How this is worked out
Each object carries tags taken from its own catalogue entry — its category, and words the cataloguer used for its style, material, maker or date. Nothing is guessed from a photograph.
A saved lot counts most (2×), a Love counts once, and a Pass counts a little against (¼) — more only if you pass on the same kind of thing again and again. Recent choices count more, but nothing fades below 40%, so lasting interests stay. Broad categories are discounted so the profile can say something more particular. The five strongest are shown as shares of 100.
What it reflects
Untick anything you do not want guiding your picks or alerts.
Review your choices
Change any answer. Your latest sixty are here.
Objects at Abell selected for you
From the auctions on bid.abell.com now, still open for bidding.