Who might want my collections (but not yet!)?

True enough, and I don't expect them to be. On the other hand perhaps they should be prepared to sell on the more ocmmon items from a donated colelction in order to keep the rare ones(and, indeed, to get the money form the deceased owner's estate). I don;t know how the law waorks in other countries, but in the UK if you mention a specific object iin a will, then it's that object, and that object only that is passed on. Not a similar object. So if I said that I leave my Philips P850 to $museum and then by the time I die I have traded the P850 for a P855, tyhe msueum gets nothing and the P855 does nto get preserved. Quite honestly I can;'t update my will every time I change the contents of my colelciton. Findign a collector is the obvious solution, and indeed I ahve done that. But (again, this is the UK,m other countriess mmay be differnet), if said colelctor dies before me ten the will ahs no meaning. Of course if he dies years before me and I am still of sound mind I can make a new will. If not, then again the stuff is not presereved. That is what I want to avoid. -tony