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Message:: [QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9541115, member: 10944"]Glad someone agrees! Even impressive local collections or historic local estates. I’ll always save at least one thing from a collection I was in awe of or families that were important to the area. I like the link to the home or auction I went to and immersed myself in their things for a day or days. I respect what it took to form these amazing lifelong collections I see and keeping at least one piece from each is like a cheesy way to pay homage to them. The really great collectors and dealers it’s inspiring to have one of their books or one of their pieces. Nice to kind of put yourself in their shoes like you said. I have a couple things that JFK owned that I suspect he may have looked at often. Those are good for inspiring what that must have felt like for him.  Those were also amazingly missed by the auctioneer that sold them. They have giant tags from an important and very well publicized auction of his possessions in the back of them. I even found them in the catalog from that auction. The auction house I got them from just threw them in a lot that I got for relative peanuts. Not another sole saw them either, I got the lot below it’s opening bid if I recall correctly. So J.P. Morgan and JFK into my collection with no one else being the wiser. I’d have never thought it possible if it didn’t happen.[/QUOTE]