What will you do with your collection...
 

when you pass away?

I've long been think about this, though I'm young I hope it doesn't happen anytime soon, not nearly complete with my collecting goals :)

But when you do go, what do you plan on doing with your collection? Selling it for relatives or kids, hopefully offspring will keep the collection going, donate it, sell to a friend, etc.

Me personally, I view my collection as 'art' more or less. I made a site to show the beauty of these cards and for it to be seen, and to show some of the great penmanship and personalities that 'show' with how that person signed.

I hope I can do enough in my career where I won't have to sell these off to help my family or having get them and not knowing what to do next, but when I pass I do plan on donating them to the Baseball Hall of Fame, or some other type of museum that would enjoy and appreciate these as much as I do and hopefully the public as well.

Curious to see what others viewed on this as well.

Cheers,

Brent

I plan on selling them and using that money to help my wife and I go on humanitarian service missions for our church. IMHO, no sense in going to the grave with them as you can't take them with you and you will have the opportunity to do something useful with the funds. I would never, ever donate them to a museum though. The Baseball Hall of Fame is full of well intended collections that are packed up and will never see the light of day. I would ONLY give them to my children if they developed an interest in baseball history. So far, they could care less.

Was hoping to pass them down to my son, but two daughters later I'm hoping for a grandson someday.... :D

T

Well, I've sold almost half of it already. The rest, and whatever else I accumulate, will be my wife's problem. :p

p.s. Apparently she's ok with it! Not sure if she's ok with selling my cards or me dying. :confused:

At 62 and with one child, my 29yo daughter or her offspring, (if she has children) will inherit my collection. As of late I have been selling off much that I have accumulated over the years. Firearms, guitars, comics,etc, and whittling down my massive collection of cards to a manageable collection of a few thousand. I am now converting many of my "raw" cards to graded for the ease of my heirs to sell, in the event of my untimely demise:D. Dave.

I am Young, (31 years old) but probably my son will have my hockey card, baseball card and firearm collection.

I am only 32 years old and will be 33 this year so I hope I can live to at least 65 years old....after that age I will be ready to go (I am not one that wants to live much past 65...I know we do not chose but from what I have seen 70 is more than enough). Pass the whole thing down to my unique niece...I will never have kids and do not want any (never have wanted any and will NEVER get married either) so she can do as she pleases whatever makes here happy...that is ALL that matters to me.

And if everyone dies before me I would sell the whole thing off and donate ALL the money to help animals in any way possible or buy a nice Vila beside the ocean so I can just die in peace....then have the money donated to a cause that helps animals once I pass away in my nice Vila.

Post # 1

I plan on not dying.

My cards are going to be with me when I drive off a cliff the day after my 80th birthday. My last words will be see you in Hell and I'll be talking to my cards and the hitchhiker I picked up five minutes earlier

z28jd

Hahahahahaha now that sir was funny!!!!:D

Post # 2

Honest answer.....my one and only son will get my collection of cards and he'll also score my Omega and Jaeger LeCoultre watch collection as well.....lucky little shit, lol. Not sure if I'm keeping my one and only Patek or not, but if I do, it's his too ;)

Well, it's worked so far. :D

Between this and Tony's movie plot in the zone farewell thread, it's the most morning laughter I've had in a while!

Hilarious

The kid gets it all.
I have one son and he is into collecting so he will get it.
Oh, for those that don't want to live past a certain age, just wait and get a little closer to it and lets see if you still have the same attitude.

My wife has Leon's Phone Number
 

he will be the 1st person to call with a respected dealer as the 2nd person to call

R

I hope I never get that call Rich, but if I did D would have no worries. See ya at 1230 at Furrs. If you aren't there I will be starting without you :). (great thing about buffets)

This much I can agree with completely. Museums are where collections go to die. A collection is only fun if it's being enjoyed by the owners. When that joy leaves for whatever reason -- death or disinterest -- time for the cards to find another collector who can enjoy them. We're all just holding our collections for the next generation of collectors.

I have three boys, so perhaps one (or more) of them will eventually take a serious interest. We'll have to see.

Count me in on this. Museum = warehouse. My stuff goes to my son, who has a strong interest in baseball even though there is no particular interest in collecting, yet.

My wife is to sell it through a reputable auction house. Except for the 1940 Playball Shoeless. He gets put in my suit jacket pocket.

See you at 12:30
 

That's onne way to confirm our lunch appointment -- save me an email :p

Everythng goes to my son.

Currently in the process of selling my entire collection. It's not as easy as one thinks :)

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=168208

Nothing I will be dead, there is nothing I can do at that point... whoever is left behind will do as they please with the cards and I really don't care what it is.

When I die we will finally have the answer to the age-old question "how many cards can be stuffed in a casket!"

Seriously, what James said is pretty much spot on, no museums. I will probably let each of my children pick an item that represents their father to them, my father is a big-time Lionel/American Flyer train collector and he gave me a really beautiful Standard Gauge Lionel 381E with all the cars that I will own till the day I die because it just represents "him" in my eyes. The rest will be sold eventually to help fund my retirement, travels to visit family, etc. in my waning years.

Damnit, stole my answer...

The only thing I have planned posthumously is the music at my memorial.

Monty Python's Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life during:

For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin
Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow.

So always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath

Life's a piece of s**t
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

And always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the right side of life...
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the bright side of life...
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life...
(I mean - what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life...

and AC/DC's Highway to Hell as everyone leaves:

Livin' easy
Lovin' free
Season ticket on a one way ride
Askin' nothin'
Leave me be
Takin' everythin' in my stride
Don't need reason
Don't need rhyme
Ain't nothin' that I'd rather do
Goin' down
Party time
My friends are gonna be there too

Well, this is kinda depressing.:(

Don't have any children yet. If something were to happen I would have my cards shredded, liquified and inserted into my bloodstream.

May none of us have to worry about this for many, many years to come.:)

I recently liquidated everything from 1948 to 1970. It was a hectic month. My Pre-War stuff may be going soon too. I am just collecting T n' E cards. When the time comes you guys here will most likely wind up with them.....:)

Good question. I have no kids, and have no idea. If my wife is alive, she gets them and she can sell them, if my wife is gone, i guess its whoever i leave everything to, either my brother-in-law or a friend. Unfortunetely my best collecting friend has terminal cancer right now or else he would have been perfect to leave my cards to. Guess i should come up with a better plan than i have now. :(

I'm sorry to hear about your friend. Let me say that if I KNEW a museum or whatever would display some of my cards, then I would donate. But I agree I wouldn't want them to sit in storage.

I have two daughters - one will get my Shooty Babitt master collection and the other will get my Larry White master collection. I may throw in an OJ Greenwood each.

Do you have a Shooty Babitt game used bat? Because I know someone who does, this guy right here :)

It's all getting sold off. My main filing cabinet has a paper on top of the top drawer with instructions--where everything is (including the computer files with images and records), who to contact, even the text of an e-mail to send. She doesn't know anything about cards or memorabilia, but I made sure she knows where that paper is.

Bill

Very smart, have thought about that

The binder will go to my son
 

with several pages of instructions. Everything I've found out about Howe and his life (which really isn't much) and then the choice...

keep it, and occasionally check eBay to see if any more show up, and if he can afford it at the time, try and add them to the collection. Don't keep it just because it was my idea, but if he want to carry on the idea of reassembling the group, keep it.

or

sell it off, but only as a complete lot. I've left instructions of who I think should handle the sale, along with giving them the information I've found out, in hopes that at auction, it might generate a bid of interest in getting a set with a fair sized number of cards all in one lot.

He may just discover that nobody but me would be interested.

There are variations to my answer, but in the end they would go to my son. He's 21 right now but if I die suddenly tomorrow it would be some years before they would be passed to him by the executor of my trust. If I die suddenly some years from now, I will have likely explained to him where to find them, how to get access to them, and how to sell them if he so chooses. If I die many years from now as an ailing senior (death bed type thing), I will likely pass them off to him myself.

i have posted this before, but I would NOT give it to my kids. They could each take an item or two they would like to remember me by.

The glory of this hobby is not owing something like a T206 or a 1975 set for that matter but the joy you get from the hunt and the privilege of the people you meet along the way. I would have never met Ted Z, Leon, William Chappel, Dave at Baggers and many others without the process of acquiring cards. Assuming he gets interested in cards, why would I take that from him?

If life is kind, at some point, I will begin liquidating some of my cards...which I may invest in bigger cards... and hopefully be down to marketable clumps by the end.

Right now my business is busy so it's not priority. I hope not to get hit by a bus tomorrow, but honesty, if I do, my insurance is pretty good and should take care of the family quite nicely. They can use the cards as a distraction in that case.

Mine will be sold off (hopefully before I go..:)) Maybe go on a nice trip before we're to old..:D My wife and I have no kids, my wife is an only child & I have a younger sister whom also doesn't want kids so at this point we have no one to give them too.

Collection
 

To my 2 boys. My 4 yr old loves them already.

The cards will be bequeathed to my wife, who doesn't know Willie Mays from Bryce Harper. I have advised Bill Huggins that if he's ever approached at a show by an attractive, silver-haired woman with his business card in one hand and a Tip-Top Dreyfuss in the other, she'll be my widow.

Mark

I don't know and I don't care. I'll be dead. Hopefully my heirs can come up with somehing.

I'm getting older by the minute. I have no children & no wife. No cousins & no nephrews. I'm considering auctioning off my cards & using the money for my funeral.

good lord! you are a nice guy! i hope that was a joke!!!!

1989 donruss
 

First net54 member that Pm's me gets my 89 Donruss set when I die. (I'm only 40 so you might have to wait a while.)

I'm fixing on hoodwinking Adrian and blowing the whole mess on hookers and blow.

Kids will get my cards and guns unless they have no interest. If the later, I will sell them off in my golden years.

lmao

its already in my will to give to my son....he can sell them if he wants or keep them...but they go to him :D

Damn I love that kid!

Leaving the Collection
 

I asked my son "When all of this becomes yours, what will you do with it?"....without hesitation he replied "sell it"......the hell with him, I'm selling it before I die and the wife and I are going on one long extravagant vacation!

John:

I'll be damned now if I leave you the Old Judge Corcoran in my will! :D

Kevin

I've already discussed it with your wife, that's the only one she promised not the shred