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Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe
The guy on Pawn stars who runs the Gettysburg Museum is selling stuff all the time from his Museum and acquires stuff constantly as well.
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It is not a museum in the true sense of the word. It is one in name only. It is a person's collection and not a charitable or non/not for profit as we view most museums. It does welcome visitors, but does not accept any type of government funding. That pretty much frees him to buy and sell as he wishes. He also sells on ebay.
I have no problem with that. If he is selling items that are War Between the States, but not Gettysburg related and he is trying to strengthen his Gettysburg collection it would make sense. When I would go there every year during the 1990's for the Civil War collector's shows most of the stores that sold those types of items also had displays of items not for sale.