Re: Major Collections
Most major collections are auctioned. This usually results in more money for the owner of the collection, and also relieves the owner of the task of selling the collection a gun at the time. Very few people would want the responsibility of having to dispose of a large collection a piece at a time, and an auction gives everyone a chance to purchase that weapon he just can't live without.
It sounds nice to go the museum route, but as noted by Hakan the pieces more than likely will end up locked away where no one can see them. Several years ago I was in Richmond, Virginia and dropped by the Museum of the Confederacy. I knew that they had one of only 4 or 5 known Arkansas belt plates from the Civil War. As this is a $10,000 dollar belt buckle I wanted to at least see one. When I inquired about it's location in the museum I was told that it was lock away in their vault.
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