Chuck In Oregon

Nick - Thank you for giving me the privilege of this site.  Dues, donations, whatever I can do to help even a little bit, just ask.

Chris - Thank you for your dedicated efforts in that Godawful event.

Well said, Brian. I was a magpie collector for a long time before it dawned on me that there are other ways to collect. What interests me now are documented and attributed items and groups in certain areas, and individual items in a particular theme, say, like early Russian aviation. I'm starting to thin my collection of many individual items that are not in a particular field of interest for me or don't fit a theme that I'm collecting - even nice things - or, at least in a couple of fortunate cases, have become too valuable to hold onto without hiding them in a safe deposit box. No one in the family wants my collectibles or my guns or even my tools. I don't understand it but there it is. What's the point of collecting if you can't bore people with you new acquisitions? I'll sell some collectibles now and my darlin' wife knows to contact Paul Wood about the remainder when the inevitable comes about. In the meantime, I enjoy the heck out of owning and learning from them and participating on this forum and, I must add, collecting more things but with a more sophisticated eye. Maybe.

I hate to ask such a dumb question, but is it a requirement that we have taken the photos ourselves? For instance, I own two small WW I Russian personal photo albums. Can I submit a photo from one of them? I doubt it, but I'd like to be sure.

Chuck