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Re: Topps company apparently selling its archives



Gosh, I could have made a great offer on about 3,000 cu/ft of Texas medical
history recently. Cheap, too! Well, okay, so you would have needed to dry it
out a little...but they weren't DUSTY!

Dennis "My Head's Above Water, if Only `Cause of My Height" Moser

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Nancy L Boothe wrote:
> Don't laugh, folks, this may be the wave of the future. A new way for
> archives to remain solvent, with only a little discreet deaccessioning.
> After all, if NASA decides to fund its space program with tourists, maybe
> we archivists can pay OUR way by auctioning off dusty old documents that
> hardly anybody ever looks at. (I can start the bidding with some Sam
> Houston letters and a Texas land grant.)
> 
> Nancy Boothe
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Michael Rhode wrote:
> 
> > Tuesday June 26, 2001 10:39 am Eastern Time
> >
> > Press Release
> >
> > FEATURE/Topps to Launch Auction Program Featuring Its Archived Items
> > of Americana
> >
> > Historic Company Teams With the World's Online Marketplace to Offer
> > One-of-a-Kind Items
>-- 
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