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To: unclewest who wrote (93558)	1/4/2005 12:56:37 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 793718

I now wonder just how much money and time Americans spend on the cool factor. My little collections are cool too, (and some expensive), but I can use just so many 50s Ovenserve yellow serving dishes, antique crystal water/wine goblets, crystal candle sticks, cartoon lunch pails or Hintermeister or R. Atkinson Fox prints and calendars. I've found myself pursuing more mundane endeavors like spending time organizing all this stuff in preparation for the time I neither want or need them any longer. But the Peter R. Anderson prints and originals are coming with me if I move. ;) M

To: unclewest who wrote (93558)	1/4/2005 4:09:10 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 793718

<<A few years ago, I decide to unload most of my gun collection and did. >> At one time I had 23 guns I've started to sell one here and there and not bought anymore. I have a Valmet premium trap o/u that I'll probably be buried with. Wood to metal fit, grain in the wood and the balance and action are super. The cut checkering sticks to my hand like a leech. I never shot much trap but nailed some 25 straight in skeet with that gun. One year we were goose hunting and wandered into Missouri after hunting and went into a gun shop. First room had new guns and trade ins. Free to wander there. The next room, the owner wasn't busy and took us in there. Guns from $1,000 to $20,000 and this was back around 1970. Look, don't touch. Then he took us to his good gun room. No prices on these. Some made as gifts for the Shaw of Iran. I remember a side by side with 5 sets of barrels, engraved and gold inlayed like you wouldn't believe. No matter which barrels were on the gun the engraving matched the receiver perfectly. The case that was made to hold the set cost more than most homes at that time.