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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 8402352, member: 24314"]<i>I think you covered it pretty good. </i><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>baseball21, posted: "The quickest way to make sure something is never seen again is to donate to a museum. And yes if they went out of business they would have to sell everything and return everything on loan to the owners, other than that <b><span style="color: #ff0000">no they really dont sell anything they just stick it in a building somewhere to collect dust</span></b>?</p><p><br /></p><p><i>EXCEPT when they <span style="color: #0059b3"><b>do sell</b></span> parts of the collection. </i></p><p><br /></p><p>baseball21, posted: "<span style="color: #0059b3"><b>It's basically duplicates and stuff they just dont want. </b></span> They arent selling any major pieces or really anything of note. It's all low/lower value stuff people donated that they just dont want to keep finding space to store in boxes somewhere. At least some percentage of the stuff was likely donated with the intention of them selling it as a way of making a donation and killing two birds with one stone."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 8402352, member: 24314"][I]I think you covered it pretty good. [/I];) baseball21, posted: "The quickest way to make sure something is never seen again is to donate to a museum. And yes if they went out of business they would have to sell everything and return everything on loan to the owners, other than that [B][COLOR=#ff0000]no they really dont sell anything they just stick it in a building somewhere to collect dust[/COLOR][/B]? [I]EXCEPT when they [COLOR=#0059b3][B]do sell[/B][/COLOR] parts of the collection. [/I] baseball21, posted: "[COLOR=#0059b3][B]It's basically duplicates and stuff they just dont want. [/B][/COLOR] They arent selling any major pieces or really anything of note. It's all low/lower value stuff people donated that they just dont want to keep finding space to store in boxes somewhere. At least some percentage of the stuff was likely donated with the intention of them selling it as a way of making a donation and killing two birds with one stone."[/QUOTE]
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