[Jewelry making - Article 01168] - Re: [Orchid] Legacy...

[MillsGem]

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Dear Kay,

    I like your common sense approach to legacy. I think that the
    fundamental approach to the problem should be the one of avoiding
    the all too common disaster of allowing a collection of tools,
    equipment, supplies and books and records to be hauled to the dump
    after trying to blow them off at a garage sale. The key to value is
    marketing. The stuff needs to be exposed to those wouho would most
    benefit by them. 

    I am inclined to think that one ought to make a big effort to find
    an auctioneering firm that has highly reputed and senstive to your
    needs and estate. If you have enough "stuff" and can properly
    identify and organize it, you would be amazed at how valuable it can
    be to those that appreciate what it is. I have seen craft oriented
    auctions bring prices that average at or above replacement ! From a
    legacy standpoint one might say that this is truly the highest and
    best disposition of things inasmuch as they are dispensed to those
    who place a high value on them....in other words, they really
    appreciate them and will probably put them to good use.The key to
    such an auction is proper advertising and promotion...you have to
    inform those who would most likely want the goods. 

    In my own case ( I'm becoming actuarilly improbable) I am attempting
    to organize my tons of "stuff" into a form that can best produce
    comfort for my wife should I  predecease her. Once this has been
    accomplished I will make a line of succession for the beneficiaries.
    For those of us who can afford it, it might be time to give some
    consideration to leaving something behind for Ganoksin.....a bit of
    money OR, maybe, some jewelry "stuff" that could be auctioned off on
    Orchid.......now that is a hell of an idea...what better legacy than
    that ! 

Ron Mills, Mills Gem Co. 
Los Osos, Ca.

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