[Rockhounds] Disposing of collections

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Conserving a collection includes the responsibility to dispose of it 
after your death. My Will instructs my heirs to take what they want 
from my collection, and how to dispose of the rest.

As a systematic collector, with a fondness for Type Locality specimens, 
I think my collection has both scientific and monetary value. I hope I 
can leave a legacy to future collectors and researchers, and some cash 
for my heirs.

Planning for the disposition of my collection only adds to the joy it 
gives me. Any significant collection is an investment in time and 
resources. Any investment should have a plan for capturing a profit. My 
plan is to pass the profit on to the future.

Kreigh




On Thursday, Jan 15, 2009, at 01:40 America/Detroit, tango juli wrote:

> Axel commented on those who will have to dispose of our collections 
> (children usually, fire dept in other cases) in our wake. Recently out 
> in the desert somewhere, friends and I discovered a dump pile in the 
> middle of nowhere onprivate land to be developed soon. Someone just 
> opened up the tailgate and pressed eject. We totally enjoyed it, but 
> it was like an archaeological dig, and we learned a lot about the 
> former owner. My friends were thrilled to dig thru the historic bottle 
> collection dating back to the 1890s and found slabs with cab outlines 
> someone once planned to cut, jade, and other locality peices my 
> friends recognized with breathless excitement. We found beautiful 
> geodes and hunks of vivid chrysocolla that were dumped along with the 
> detritus of a garage--wheel ramps, an old push sweeper, a 70s bicycle, 
> a broom, old oil cans, etc. I found a collection of tabasco bottles, 
> and very old pop bottle collection. I found what turned out to be a 
> nice
>  hunk of turquoise. The 1950s coleman lamp and 1970s olive oil can are 
> now part of my historic junk collection.
> The tin cooking utensils were mended by someone practically minded, 
> but the assemblage was a reminder that someday someone will see much 
> of our uncatelogued boxes and crates of unlabelled rocks and minerals 
> as junk to be disposed of (with the exception of Kreigh :). My fiance 
> has a list of a couple people to call in case of my demise to dispose 
> of my collection. Hopefully they will remember where I've been, 
> because I've been lazy in the last year or two of labelling stuff. 
> (smile)
> And instead of reading email, playing with topo maps and planning my 
> next trip, maybe I need to be out cleaning out my garage which is now 
> a shrine to collecting....
> ...tina
>
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