[Milsurplus] Re:Radio Estates

[pete williams]

A down under view--- antipodean if you will.
A quasi philosophical view  could be taken that the collection only had value to the 
collector.... he/she derived pleasure from it, -buying ,
 selling  and doing the rejuvenation.  Even sitting  back  admiring the  hardware  and 
brushing off the  dust.--- but  noone  else in the family has  any interest.
To the rest of the  family it  was a hobby- perhaps encouraged, more often  derided.. The 
collector operated responsibly and kids didn't go hungry or barefoot because of it one 
must  assume. Deviants  there  are but let's not  get involved with the  specials . He 
got his  jollies at his  cost and minimal cost to his dependents .
 A hobbiest/amateur  painter craftsman may spend a lifetime on materials and  effort - not 
producing anything of  value and nothing to pass on ; yet he  ejoyed himself and at  some 
cost.- how  does noe  collect on that investment?
In real terms then, a radio collection is  worthless to anyone else with out interest.. 
values are realised  by what other collectors  are willing to pay based on the  criteria 
of rarety or  features or plain ordinary avariciousness.
Practically, the  widow/dependants should show no remorse at any  suggestion of putting it 
all to land fill.--- the costs of the  pleasures well and truly  expended ove the 
departed ones life experiences..... it's  adone  deal.
However the instincts involved  of getting  a return on the  relationship is  another 
question . The list has envoked a sentimentality  to the  benefit of the  widow or 
whomever, but one might  ask, how  and by what means did the  now deceased  collector 
aquire  his collection? The  applicability of  ethics has  two sides.

Pete




Pete D..Williams
METUNG, 3904
AUSTRALIA
jupete at bigpond.net.au