[Phono-L] Young collectors? - A SURVEY!

[George Glastris]

In my professional experience, family members only show interest when the 
owner has died or decides to sell the collection.

More times than I care to remember family members who've NEVER shown an 
interest in the collection all of a sudden want to keep one or more items, 
and more often than not, they are the best and/or the most expensive items.

One time I was auctioning a fine collection of scientific instruments for a 
gentleman.  His kids were told to say what they wanted.  Well, the daughter 
had put her name on ALL the best pieces.  Thankfully his wife walked around 
the house with me and wasn't happy and kept taking her name off the pieces 
saying "She can't have that.  She can't have that one either!"

Another time a family of a late musical box collector who always regretted 
the fact that they would not share in his hobby started taking everything 
they could once it was decided to sell.  They kept coming back for more even 
as the collection was being packed.  And of course they had to take things 
for the grandchildren too.

What's even funnier is how quickly family members know what are the best 
pieces in a collection when they've never spent any time with it!!!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Melvin" <dan at old-phonographs.com>
To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Young collectors? - A SURVEY!


> Personally, I don't think too many collectors have other family members 
> that are interested. I would say in my experience it is not normally the 
> case to have interested family member. Perhaps tolerant, but rarely 
> interested. That doesn't mean there are not new collectors out there. 
> Having kids to turn a collection over to isn't necessary for the hobbly to 
> succeed. Consider your personal situation when you got interested 
> collecting phonographs. It's rather unusual for it to have involved a 
> family member directly. But of course that happens too.
>
> I have a lot of good collector friends and a few of them are young enough 
> they will take up the torch when I'm dust. I'm not worried at all.
>
> Dan
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "gregory caringi" <drgregc at msn.com>
> To: "phono-l" <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 4:48 AM
> Subject: RE: [Phono-L] Young collectors? - A SURVEY!
>
>
>
> I have two daughters, 23 & 25.  They share many of the same interests as 
> myself - music, photography - but never have shown any interest in the 
> phonograph collection.  They admit to being embarrassed when I give guests 
> "the tour."  I like to play the machines during the holidays when they are 
> home.  They usually object.  Their only interest is preserving one machine 
> each in my demise - the younger wants my VV-XVII since she helped clean it 
> up, and the older wants my Columbia BD because the big nickel horn is 
> "pretty."  The hobby is in trouble!
>
>
>
> Greg Caringi
>
>> From: Srsells1 at aol.com
>> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:06:00 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Young collectors? - A SURVEY!
>> To: phono-l at oldcrank.org
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/24/2009 3:40:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> wilenzick at bellsouth.net writes:
>>
>> That's all very nice, and it's good to be optimistic about the future of
>> the
>> hobby. It would be interesting if someone or group would take a poll of:
>> 1. How many phonograph collectors have children?, and
>> 2. How many of these children are interested in the collections?
>>
>>
>> In answer to Ray's question, I posted a quick survey at the URL below. If
>> everyone will answer it (it's confidential), I'll be happy to share the
>> results.
>>
>> Steve Ramm
>>
>> _http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB229CUDJ4UWX_
>> (http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB229CUDJ4UWX)
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