Well.
I think we must expect our treasures to be less interesting for the world, once we are no more.
What we can do, is to enjoy them for a long time, and if we put a substantial part of our life savings into them, sell them before we become unable to do it ourself.
My family has solemnly promised me, they will get a large container and trash everything. They cannot be expected to be interested, but they don´t even care for a sale.
That is my alternative to one day start selling out.
I heard about a stamp collector, who had built up a major exhibition grade collection here in Copenhagen. A month after his death, his stamp collector friends approached the widow, to inquire, if she needed help with selling.
Her answer: I hated every bit of that collection, and it was burned the day after the funeral. She knew the value, but simply wanted it out of the way.
That is one way to loose $ 100.000.-
Oh, and a comment on 11C´s remark regarding 1945 production.
I think, Zeiss made quite a lot of binoculars in 1945. But, due to air attacks, the distribution may have been halted. Resulting in stores that never hit the frontline. Like many of the rln marked items.
I once saw the production report statistics for the StG 44 automatic rifle, and it was still in production in april 45, with more than 2 millions made!
Only, the ammo for it was in short supply even in 1944, and never caught up on the rifle productions. (no-one dared to stop an ammo plant to retool to the short 8 mm. Hence no ammo)
So, if it can be compared, production in 1945 can be substantial, for any military item. It was almost a third of a year.
I think we must expect our treasures to be less interesting for the world, once we are no more.
What we can do, is to enjoy them for a long time, and if we put a substantial part of our life savings into them, sell them before we become unable to do it ourself.
My family has solemnly promised me, they will get a large container and trash everything. They cannot be expected to be interested, but they don´t even care for a sale.
That is my alternative to one day start selling out.
I heard about a stamp collector, who had built up a major exhibition grade collection here in Copenhagen. A month after his death, his stamp collector friends approached the widow, to inquire, if she needed help with selling.
Her answer: I hated every bit of that collection, and it was burned the day after the funeral. She knew the value, but simply wanted it out of the way.
That is one way to loose $ 100.000.-
Oh, and a comment on 11C´s remark regarding 1945 production.
I think, Zeiss made quite a lot of binoculars in 1945. But, due to air attacks, the distribution may have been halted. Resulting in stores that never hit the frontline. Like many of the rln marked items.
I once saw the production report statistics for the StG 44 automatic rifle, and it was still in production in april 45, with more than 2 millions made!
Only, the ammo for it was in short supply even in 1944, and never caught up on the rifle productions. (no-one dared to stop an ammo plant to retool to the short 8 mm. Hence no ammo)
So, if it can be compared, production in 1945 can be substantial, for any military item. It was almost a third of a year.
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