[Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] A new high?

[William Donzelli]

> August has collected an enormous stockpile of
> mint WWII radios over the years. Most still new in boxes. He started
> years ago, when collecting WWII radios were not in style yet.

Also, he never collected any junk. Not even average condition gear. 
Always top shelf stuff.

I am sure that most people on this list - certainly me - have decent 
sized collections, maybe bigger than August's. But we tend to have more 
than a few sets that are a bit beaten up, and a pile of embarrassing 
junkers. Not so with him. If you buy something from his collection, no 
doubt the condition will leave you breathless.

> $1400 for a
> rare and mint condition radio of that vintage is not that much to a
> serious collector.

And as we can see, that auction had a fight between several serious 
collectors...

William Donzelli
aw288@osfn.org