[Milsurplus] August J.Link archive ???????

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

John, Ben, et al,

August has been collecting mil sets probably as long as I have (40+ years), 
and I've known him pretty well for at least half that time.  Although the only 
face to face meeting we ever had was about a decade ago when we flew to PA 
together to spend a couple of days sifting through a surplus cache and ended up 
spending a week.

The reason that the quality of the items he's selling is pretty uniformly 
high is that his collecting practice was almost always different from the way 
most of us approach it.  I and probably a lot of the rest of you will, after 
deciding we are interested in a set (or sometimes after stumbling across the first 
piece of it), pick up the first piece that shows up above whatever our 
personal cull level is, and over time "trade up" in condition.  Sometimes keeping 
the next best one for parts, etc., and sometimes selling it to someone else who 
started later.  August mostly only bought NOS or NOSB items.  Once in a while, 
usually if it was a particularly hard to find piece and he had most of the 
rest of a set, he'd buy a less than nice item.  But not very often.  I 
overhauled a GN-35 in that category for him once.


In a message dated 6/10/2004 4:23:06 PM Central Daylight Time, jfor at quik.com 
writes: 
> >Just who or what is this "August J.Link archive" thats being disposed off?
> >anyone know.
> >
> >His expected prices seem quite high.. or are they ?
> >
> >Ben G4BXD
> 
> I don't know, but he must have been a fairly wide ranging collector for 
> years.
> His stuff is priced high, but in very good ++ shape. He also has stuff I've
> never seen elsewhere, untouched by ham hands. IMO, he's thinning out stuff 
> not
> in the core of his collection and duplicates.
> 

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