**When reading, there is a sentence which i'm not sure about its meaning,
since I'm new at JP. Appreciates if someone can correct my understanding if it
was wrong o/**

**古物収集が趣味で色々と集めてるとは思ってたけど。** **(my guess : "I've been thinking that his hobby
is collecting antiques, since he's been collecting a lots of them." ? but i'm
not sure )**

Context: MC found an old bronze mirror inside his uncle's warehouse/ storage
room. And this sentence is describing his thought about his uncle.

MC「これ、なんだろ？鏡？でもガラスもはまってないし……あ、銅鏡ってやつかな」

辛うじて顔が映ってるような……そんな具合に小汚い銅鏡を手にとってみる。​

MC「伯父さんも趣味人だねぇ。これ、いくらしたんだろ」

**古物収集が趣味で色々と集めてるとは思ってたけど。​**
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grammar meaning japanese-to-english video-games
What does this means in this context ?古物収集が趣味で色々と集めてるとは思ってたけど。 (MC found an old bronze mirror inside his uncle's warehouse/ storage room)
The けど is the same as

  * [けど in the end of sentence](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/36037/45489)
  * [What does this けど at the end of the sentence mean?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/34195/45489)

Generally it is omitting something like _I'm not sure/I don't know_.

The sentence is 「(伯父さんは)古物収集が趣味でいろいろと集めてる」とは思ってたけど. So literally it means _I
thought that his hobby is collecting antiques and he was collecting a variety
of them, but.._. In this case, you can just consider there is omitting _I
don't know_ , or it connects to the preceding これいくらしたんだろ: _... he was
collecting a lot of things, but I wonder how much all these cost_.
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