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Some museums aren't as bad as others but there's plenty of one of a kind stuff that hasn't been on display in my lifetime sitting in museum storage that the public can't even see in a YouTube video.
If private collectors are the only ones making an effort to preserve this stuff then they deserve to have it. There's plenty of museums that could have done the research and leg work to find and save it and beat him to it, but they didn't, and if preserving it were left to them that set would definitely hit e-waste already. May still end up in a museum eventually....One either contacts him and offers him a big wad of cash, or years down the road he gets tired of it, looses storage space or something and donates it to one...Hell if he sells it someday a museum may end up the high bidder.
I stand by the gist of my statement that a party that appreciates it for what it is and is willing to put money into it's preservation and maintenance is better than it hitting E-waste.
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