Re: What to do with my collection?
A museum does need diligent trustees. The Marconi Museum at Baddow was only saved from being sold at auction because one of the trustees delved into the records and showed that the bulk of the most valuable items (including the "Titanic" memorabila) had been the personal property of Marconi himself, not the Marconi company, and so were not the company's to sell.
An engineer who had worked at the old GEC Osram factory at Hammersmith told me that after manufacture of lamps ended, its large collection of historical lamps was simply dumped.
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