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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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  • See also https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/xjov56/comment/ipc0p17/ . – Yusuke Matsubara Sep 22 '22 at 00:07
  • This has the "video-games" tag. Does that mean the quote is from a game? What is the title? Mentioning the title could provide additional context, and it's generally nice to give credits when quoting an extended amount of text from a creative work. – Yusuke Matsubara Sep 22 '22 at 00:08

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The けど is the same as

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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