17 Oct
2010
17 Oct
'10
6:14 p.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
You have had different experiences to I, then. I've seen it many a time with
vintage computers - items that people have paid good money for, then quickly
grown bored of them once they've satisfied a long-term desire to "own one of
those", at which point they've relegated the item to storage. When it's
"found" again a few years later, they decide that it's too much effort to
find
a new home for it and, as it doesn't seem important to them, they just dump it.
That's not to say that there aren't people with deep pockets who'll do right
by an item - of course there are; it's just that an ability to earn money (or
be blessed with it) doesn't automatically equate to an ability to look after
things :-)
cheers
Jules
<rolls eyes
back> I don't think that I claimed that it wasn't. My point was
that it often has a downside when it comes to getting items to people who
are best capable of preserving them for future generations.
I assume this is the recurring "deep pocket collectors are not the
best caretakers" issue.
What evidence do you have?
I have been knees deep in the antiques trade for quite a few years
now, and this is simply not what I see.