Re: What to do with my collection
One thing to bear in mind about disposal routes that place items on the open market, is that some types of item realise the highest price when dismantled. This affects part of my own collection, which if sold at auction, would be bought exclusively by people intending to break the items up, export the valuable parts and scrap the remainder. Therefore, if I want the items to survive they need to be protected e.g. by being accessioned items within a museum with a proper disposals policy.
A few decades hence, the same might be true of vintage radios and TVs generally, as there might be commercial pressure to gut them indiscriminately and fit modern innards or steampunk them. I don't think we can reliably predict the trends, such as interior design or retro media fads, that might have an impact on the economics of survival.
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