[ARC5] Re: [Milsurplus] (no subject)

[Gordon White]

      The problem of  what happens to historically important objects or 
records/data, etc. spans all interests. Really important stuff has been 
discarded when someone died, either out of spite in some cases when the 
survivor was always unhappy the guy spent more time with his things than 
with (her) or for other reasons. A collector of aircraft had patterns 
made for the Rolls Royce Merlin engine crankshaft, a pretty pricey 
project, and the estate decided it would be a liability problem even to 
give them away, so destroyed them!

    We should be grateful that E-Bay has to a degree replaced the 
dumpster. I have bought a couple of bottles off E-Bay that my great 
grandfather  sold his bourbon whiskey in, over 100 years ago; bottles 
with his name on them. Without E-Bay I'd never have found them.

    In fact I may lighten up my ARC-5 collection via E-Bay one of these 
days.

- Gordon White