[TheForge] Help Save part of the Sorber Collection

[magichammer]

Rick, that all sounds reasonable, but is way beyond my involvement in 
the program.
I coordinated setting up a way for folks to be able to donate. That is done.
click here: http://www.metalmuseum.org/donations.htm
I haven't anything to do with the money or deciding what to bid on.
This in not an ABANA program per say, we are ABANA members.
All of the donated money will go for the bid.
The volunteer that will attend the auction and conduct the business will 
pay their own expenses.
If there are a few bucks left over, they will go to the Museum's general 
fund.

Like anything, there is probably a lot more to the big picture than is 
evident.
The rest of this is what I think, but not "official" in any way.
The auction people are moving over a million dollars worth of thousands 
of pieces in one day.
As far as I know the Sorber family has chosen to auction off the entire 
lot at once.
I don't know if there is any "working" with the family or the auction 
people.
Maybe if the Metals Museum was purchasing 10's of thousands of dollars 
worth they would have more clout.
So far, that is not the case. (donate, donate, donate !)
There will be a catalog issued and the choices will be determine from 
the catalog / projected bid / budget.
They can't set a target yet, because the catalog hasn't been produced 
yet. (this is a huge inventory)
The whole thing boils down to $$$ MONEY $$$
The Museum can't really shop until they know how much money has been 
donated.
$500 won't buy what $5,000 will buy.
You should donate something, even $10 would be great. Then contact
Jim Wallace (Metal Museum Director) wally at metalmuseum.org
and discuss your very reasonable idea with him.
hope this helps,


dave mudge

RICK KORINEK wrote:

>Dave, the other thing about the musuem purchasing a small 
>collection of representative pieces, is that it will be a lot 
>easier to raise funds from individuals and affilliates for 
>something specific, not at the avgaries of how the auction 
>house organizes the "lots".
>-Rick
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>>To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
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>>Dave, Is there any way that the Metal Musuem and ABANA 
>>could "work" with the Sorber Family and the auctioneer ahead 
>>of the auction to put together a representative grouping of 
>>items that the musuem would agree to purchase at a set 
>>price.  Then these items could remain available to the 
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>public.
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>>-Rick
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