Tiki Finds - Collecting Tiki

LT LOL Tiki Member San Diegoish Joined: Sep 06, 2007 Posts: 932	LT LOL Tiki Posted posted on Mon, Aug 20, 2012 1:47 PM On 2012-08-20 02:43, atomictonytiki wrote: That scrapbook is a great find but how could someone sell a piece of someone history like that? It likely came from an estate sale; probably no surviving family members to pass it along to. It appears to be mostly intact which, in my view, is the real win. From what I see on eBay the typical fate of these WWII scrapbooks is to be broken up and sold piecemeal. If ever there was a case for the true value of something being worth more than the sum of its parts, these personal artifacts would be it.

On 2012-08-20 02:43, atomictonytiki wrote:
That scrapbook is a great find but how could someone sell a piece of someone history like that?

It likely came from an estate sale; probably no surviving family members to pass it along to. It appears to be mostly intact which, in my view, is the real win. From what I see on eBay the typical fate of these WWII scrapbooks is to be broken up and sold piecemeal. If ever there was a case for the true value of something being worth more than the sum of its parts, these personal artifacts would be it.

Post #648791 by LOL Tiki on Mon, Aug 20, 2012 1:47 PM