(16 Feb 2011) HEADLINE: Toy Story: Huge collection of rare toys for sale
CAPTION: A collection like no other is going on sale: 35,000 vintage toys and trains assembled by American collector Jerry Green over a period of 50 years. (Feb. 16)
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IT IS A TOY COLLECTION LIKE NO OTHER ... A TINY WORLD ... A VALUABLE WORLD ... FOR THE TAKING.
SOTHEBY'S AUCTION HOUSE IN NEW YORK IS BROKERING THE SALE OF THOUSANDS OF VINTAGE TOYS AND TRAINS ... ALL FROM ONE COLLECTOR ... JERRY GREEN ... TAKING 50 YEARS TO GATHER *THIS*
5-THOUSAND PIECES ON DISPLAY ... SO VAST TAKING UP THE ENTIRE FLOOR AT SOTHEBY'S. IN ALL ... 35-THOUSAND PIECES.
SOT: The only way you can build a collection like this is really over time. With passion, compulsion, and time. And this took about 50 years to put together.
BUT NO AUCTION HERE ... THE HOPE IS SOMEONE WILL BUY THE PIECES, THEN DONATE THEM TO A MUSEUM.
THE COLLECTOR KEPT HIS TREASURE IN FIVE BASEMENT ROOMS OF A SUBURBAN PHILADELPHIA HOME. THE TOYS DATE FROM THE 1850S TO 1940. THERE ARE RARE ... HANDMADE ... HISTORICAL PIECES.
SOT: Our business is selling the best of the best and this is the best of the best. The best you can possible find in the toy world. I can tell you the kinds of people who have been through this exhibition, some of our most important painting collectors, impressionistic paintings, old master painting collectors, have fallen in love with this, they've been in raptured with this collection.
A COLLECTION WITH VALUE ... ESTIMATED IN THE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
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