On 1/6/2016 5:42 PM, William Donzelli wrote: I think the condition issue applies if the artifact has some collectors value. The museums will document how an artifact gets to them and though they probably don't want bugs crawling out of holes in the item, if it fits their collection at all they'll take it. Also the prior ownership / use might be of interest, so that will mean it probably isn't shrink wrapped. Collectors of comics and books and such as baseball trading cards value the condition but I don't think such as chipped edges, folds, original shrink wrap matters that much. If it was shrink wrapped and in some nice convenient cover or such then I'd want the copy with the cover, but shrink wrapped wouldn't matter much to me. Evan makes the point of checking the artifact too, which you can't do with a shrink wrapped item. The shrink wrap plastic may eventually deteriorate if you have the wrong stuff, so that might be a reason to unwrap it too. Thanks jim