[Milsurplus] Saving stuff

[J. Forster]

Absolutely, Consider August Link. He had a huge amount of NOS/NIP stuff.

-John

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> Actually, there is some value to just saving things, as long as it's not
> really "rotting";  as long as it's being preserved across time. I recall
> the estate sale of one blessed packrat in Seattle, William Zinn. He
> somehow derived enjoyment from preserving stuff that no doubt
> had seen a nadir in its value many years ago. No doubt people
> shook their heads at his saving old radio manuals, seagoing
> radio operator logs, ITU Berne station lists, silent film era
> movie magazines, and so on and so on, Alaska Steamship
> Company colorful matches and ashtrays, all kinds of neat trivia.
> I'd say the world is a little richer for his having set the stuff
> aside.
> You know, the 2 RAT receivers I traded to Tony Grogan
> in the 1980s ? - those came from a guy who stored them, in
> their original boxes, and did NOT "convert" them. He only
> took them out once in a while, to look at them. So did he do
> wrong?
> -Hue Miller
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