There are 2 different people on this site than years ago. Collectors and "pickers or resellers"
Both will have different opinions. I have passed stuff to other collectors many many times. I have sold stuff for less than its worth because it was another collector that I know would keep it for his collection.
Some are in this to make every penny they can... Doesn't matter who it is.
I collected for many years. Then I had two strokes and sold off most of my collection. Now I guess I am one of those "PICKERS".
What I don't understand, is why "pickers or resellers" are the bottom of the food chain?
I had a lady contact me a couple of years ago who was liquidating her fathers old farm in California. They had an old gas pump standing there with a globe on it. She said they were going to "HAUL IT TO THE SALVAGE YARD AND JUNK IT", but thought someone might like it like her father did.
It turned out the globe was a previously UNDISCOVERED Wilshire globe. I didn't buy it, but hooked her up with someone in California who did. Now it is in someone's collection in California.
I have found quite a few items over the years that were one of a kind and may have been on the way to the garbage because people didn't know what to do with it.
So John, if I called you with a never before discovered globe, you would turn me down because I am now a "PICKER" and not a collector.
Do you go to swap meets and auctions? Ohio, Iowa, PA etc.? Do you ask the people you buy from if they are "PICKERS" or collectors before you will buy from them?
Believe me, at my age I don't do it for the money, people who know me know I don't need the money. At 70 years old it is a hobby. I meet some great people and enjoy traveling. I too have given things to people who I thought appreciated it.
Have you ever purchased globes from ANYONE who is NOT a 100% collector?
I think if "collectors" only bought from "collectors" there would not be a hobby. You don't find much at garage sales or estate sales or "family auctions" these days.
