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Frank WakefieldI'm all for a Manhattan show, right there in the center of arogance and obnoxiousness. Exactly the types of folks you describe could go, lord only knows if they'd keep their word on anything.
And as for the hedge fund, who would they sell to one day? Seems to me a good way to get some nice items out of the hands of collectors, and into the hands of some entity that could one day only sell to another such group, or maybe to a museum. Museums are nice, IF they're going to display an item. Too many items end up in storage, never seen by the public. I have a few items that might qualify for hedge fund purchase, but I'll never sell them to such a group directly, my items would be on the "world's toughest to buy list" as far as you and your group would be concerned.
Your plan would be an excellent opportunity for some collectors to sell some high end items to the folks you describe, and the fund you propose. It would be good for those sellers.
So you go for it. I'll remain here in the rural, distant, poor, rancorous, unenlightened hills of Kentucky, a place where someone's word is still to be trusted.
Frank.