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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 6271820, member: 110350"]Unfortunately, he was recently diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, so at best I'm afraid he has no more than a year or so left. But I try not to think about it. After all, he doesn't know, and as long as he's happy I'll try to be happy. I'm a bit amused by your New York apartment question. After all, not all New York apartments are that tiny!  Most lie somewhere in between the palatial duplex penthouse type and Ralph and Alice Kramden's Flatbush apartment from 1951. Besides, the antiquities don't really take up all that much space. In addition to the one living room bookcase shelf I posted, there's one other shelf directly to the left: [ATTACH=full]1248349[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1248351[/ATTACH] Plus a flat surface in my front hall with a bell jar containing my three Attic black-figure lekythoi (here photographed with the "bell" removed): [ATTACH=full]1248355[/ATTACH] Plus, hanging on the wall to the bell jar's left, a small vitrine containing small amulets and other artifacts (it's mirrored in back, which makes the objects a bit difficult to photograph): [ATTACH=full]1248357[/ATTACH] And that's it, folks!  Only about 50 artifacts in all, accumulated over the last 40 years. Sometimes I wonder what my ancient coin collection might be like if I had devoted my time and money to it all those years instead of antiquities. But I'm really quite happy with the choices I made. Besides, my son really loves them, which is important to me. In short, even in my 1 1/2 bedroom apartment (a "Junior 4," in realtors' lingo), I still have space left over for a few thousand books and other things (including one marble table for my five ancient coin trays and one coin & medal display case) after making space for the antiquities![/QUOTE]

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