[Milsurplus] Museums!

[Peter Gottlieb]

Nobody seems interested in any of this. Just a sample here or there. If convenient. 

I’d love to be at a sale at the electronics museum in Maryland and pick up some beautiful radar set. I’m still interested. 


Peter

> On May 26, 2018, at 9:04 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 26 May 2018 at 23:16, Glenn Little WB4UIV wrote:
>> 
>> I have a Type 97 sniper rifle that my father brought back from Japan at the end of WWII.
>> It is an unusual rifle as it has a mismatched part that was used to originally build the rifle. It was, 
>> by serial number, one of the last of these rifles produced in WWII.
>> All of the serial numbers match on the rifle.
>> The inspector was in a hurry and was right handed.
>> I tried to donate the rifle to the NRA museum and they will not take it under my terms.
>> My terms were the rifle is not to be sold, but, to be displayed or stored for later display.
>> The rifle is worth too much to be a 'wall hanger'  in a private home.
>> I tried to donate the rifle to a local museum under the same conditions.
>> They will not even talk about.
>> I find out it is written in the organization of museums that artifacts will be sold or traded to 
>> maintain the museum.
>> The rifle and scope (with a non matching serial number) was appraised at over $5000.00
>> 
>> What does one do with a piece of history like this?
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> I own a set of bagpipes which I got through my brother from an old soldier who died some 
> time ago in Butte, Montana.
> 
> He picked them up off a battle-field in WWI, probably in France..
> 
> The pipes have been authenticated and the story is true.
> 
> One of the projecting mounts has been, very obviously, "cut" by a bullet, probably the bullet 
> that injured or killed the piper.
> 
> They are "mounted" in real elephant ivory and are made of ebony. They are over 100 years 
> old and they sound wonderful. Their tone is spectacular.
> 
> According to an expert on them, they are worth well over $5000.00....yet, in the United 
> States, I can't sell them, and am in danger of getting in trouble by even transporting them. I 
> dare not transport them into Canada, as the U.S. Border folks will confiscate them at the 
> border, just as they did not too long ago to a set of ivory-mounted bagpipes some young 
> piper wanted to bring into the U.S. from Canada to a highland games and piping contest.
> 
> Since I got rheumatoid arthritis after a bad car accident in 1996, I can no longer play the 
> bagpipes as the RA has destroyed my fingers and hands....and a lot of the rest of my body 
> too for that matter.
> 
> So, what do I do with them? None of my kids want to bother with them, no museum would 
> want them, they are much too precious to be simply burnt. I can no longer play them. 
> 
> The elephant ivory on them is from an elephant which died at LEAST 100 years ago, yet the 
> damned liberal hippy sons-a-bitches who are presently in charge of the world would want to 
> burn it, and the real ivory on the keys of my wife's ancient grand piano too while they are at 
> it.
> 
> They can all go straight to hell.
> 
> I guess I'll have the pipes put into my coffin when they plant me, which won't be too far in 
> the future.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
> 
> 
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