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Old 18th Aug 2017, 9:18 am   #21
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Fortunately my son is quite interested in my collection. I am actually on the lookout for a replacement Cossor 524 as he begged mine off me, but ebay sellers seem to have a very inflated idea of what they are actually worth.
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Well. I stuck my head over the parapet and found I'm not alone. On the subject of wills, you can't make a request or bequest that will cost someone else money. If for instance you wanted your ashes scattered over Cardigan Bay you would have to leave a sum of money for helicopter hire etc.
Not having time to have worked; that's very true, I subscribe to the theory that an individuals perception of time is in proportion to the length of time already lived. A summers afternoon can seem an age to a toddler but is over only too quickly on the bowling green. This is probably why kids have the universal "are we there yet?" syndrome.
The way forward. Structure your time, I climb into the loft every saturday morning after breakfast and select 3 or 4 articles for ebay. (sometimes they don't get listed the same week but I'm working on that.)
Lastly remember whatever you're doing in retirement you're doing it for enjoyment, if you don't like gardening put it to grass or concrete; I don't care what the house sells for when I'm gone and besides, I can't go yet I have too many projects to finish.
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Earlier today I posted here about wills and collections (like other member have). It has either 'not happened' (unlikely) or removed? Admin, why please?
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Old 18th Aug 2017, 12:47 pm   #24
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You posted that in a different thread where it remains for all to see:-

http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/s...d.php?t=139040

http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/s...2&postcount=14
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Old 18th Aug 2017, 1:34 pm   #25
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I have started to sell off some of my collection to concentrate on some more interesting (to me) sets but I have a long way to go.
I spotted a vintage TV and an Arora converter for sale at a bargain price and went for it. "Fortunately" someone had got in before me thus saving me from myself.
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This Will aspect is very pertinent to collections and everything else. The comments so far are spot on but it's all particularly amplified if you have a partner, both in terms of the physical responsibility they will face and the need for legal ownership. There's no such thing as "common law" marriage and Radio 4's Woman's Hour regularly reports distressing stories of partners left with no control or entitlement to anything. My [male as it happens] friends married in January 2016 and one of them was then dead [very unexpectedly] by June.

My advice is always that, legally, partnership is not a trust or philosophical issue.
You are protected either by marriage OR a decent Will [perhaps both] but there MUST be at least one or the other in place to avoid problems

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Be careful what you put in a will. If you specify that items are to be given away HMRC will assume they have value and, if the estate is liable to Inheritance Tax, they will want 40% of that value.

You second point is very valid. I know of unmarried couples living together who don't have their house in joint names and haven't made wills. If the person owning the house dies the survivor can find themselves instantly homeless when intestacy rules are applied.
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Old 4th Oct 2017, 8:32 pm   #28
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I came home last weekend with a Marconi 219 and a Murphy A372. I think perhaps I'm a lost cause and that there is no cure.
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Sorry to butt in but I followed this post with interest, it was Frank's post from Manchester that got me, when he sadly demises his stuff is going to the tip.
I have collected, over the years, some high end Sony gear from the 70's. It's playing at the moment some old reel to reel tapes. It's used daily, I won't part with it but having had five strokes and currently overcoming encephalitis I even struggle to operate it sometimes. My family tell me the same, when the inevitable comes it's going to the tip. ****** peasants. They are not being cruel, we all laugh about it. But to think of their intentions will haunt me for ever. And now I have just been told today by a kind member on here, I've got "tape shed syndrome", is it fatal?
LOL not sure anybody got the punt!!

I once visited the collection of a really nice chap in Brigg near Hull. He was selling everything since he was ill with emphysema, and his son had no interest. I felt like the next custodian.
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Ha! apologies for being smug, but I have already done my radio collection downsizing. Sold the last of my mains domestic sets a couple of years ago to just concentrate on Ever Ready battery sets. I have a collection of WW2 Military manpack sets too which I'm keeping. Even though everything is tucked away I still get grief from 'er indoors'. I keep telling her, she doesn't know how lucky she is!
I'd was doing rather well, until I recently got into repairing Philips reel to reels. I find I've less time as I've got older and having recently moved house, I've now got two bathrooms (amongst many other DIY projects) to fully refurbish from the floor (inclusive) up! Any spare time is taken up by my other interests - going underground and riding horses. Best wishes, Colin.
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I've been a Roberts Radio nut since I was 12, my Grandad whet my appetite for them, I'm 46 now, going on 47.
My Roberts collection, (obsession really) has amassed to 177 completed and restored sets, with maybe another 100 in the loft still to attend to.
I have nearly all that Roberts produced, from my earliest, an M4Q, up to and including Revivals (No DAB, I don't consider them worthy - when I happen across them, I break them for spares, and use the chassis to make Hybrid 'vintage' sets)
I do need to call it a day at some point I know, but I just can't 'let go'.
There are a few I still have to find, one especially, an R77 in decent nick, and I may well just retire when I find it.

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Despite two decent sized and well insulated sheds I've nearly reached capacity point with displaying well over 60 sets many of which are large Murphys.
I dont really know what the future holds as I enjoy collecting and restoring old valve sets so much. One thing I do know I'd never have them piled up in front of each other so they can't be seen or used. I think when it gets to that stage it's gone too far!
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The size of your collection can seriously curtail your enjoyment of it, as I've found out myself over the years.
It becomes too unwieldy and the lack of space stops you from displaying/reparing etc etc due to the sheer number of items in the collection.
My Videogames/hardware collection would fill a church hall if I wanted to display it properly, so as a result most of it is packed away in boxes and stored in 4 or 5 locations including relatives' houses.
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I'll happily admit that some of my hoard is on borrowed time, destined at some indeterminate time to complete it's original journey to the great recycling facility in the sky.
I've very little of any great importance in the scheme of things, so I just enjoy it whilst I can. When I'm gone it can regroup in new pastures.
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WOW ! What a timely discussion.

Only today my 'sister' and I were discussing the recent issues that currently prevent me from making a will and linked to that, what to do about my very large collection, the largest group being vintage Radios, R2R tape Recorders, Cassette Recorders, Walkie Talkies, Intercoms, Microphones, Vinyl Records etc, etc. but the largest asset being my bungalow. Oh, I nearly forgot, some 300 Cameras (from my previous business & collection) !

I won't go into details but it involves the legality of my legal name & registration and the recent revelations that I have another half family (only discovered in my late Mother's hidden documents) and those sent to me, unredacted, that were held by the MOD & my past restrictions covered under the Official Secrets Act. From which I am now released.

Now, only 1 week away from my 70th birthday it's rocked my world and left me confused as to who I actually am. It's now going to take up a great deal of my time, to even grasp & understand the above.

Until I get all this sorted out and it's likely to cost money, time & certain government departments involvement to get the matter resolved. The "Collections" will have to wait and I hope I don't run out of time, let alone to decide what to do with the collection when I pass.

Oh well, on a positive note, all of the above has certainly stopped me in my tracks and they're be no more spending on items for my collection !! THAT'S FOR SURE !!
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I agree, as your collection gets larger it can become less enjoyable. Rather than being able to look at my sets proudly displayed, they are turned sideways to fit them in. Room to store and display is such a problem now. As soon as I make and fit a new 6 foot shelf, it is filled with sets that I had hidden away, requiring another shelf to be made, it seems endless.
Transistor sets can be fun though, you can fit in a lot of transistor radios in the volume a large woody takes up.
I had to get rid of a lot of sets that were not KB in order to make room for the KB collection.
I think the decision to have a theme to my collection and specialise was a good idea, but I never realised how many I would still end up collecting.
But I still get that excited feeling when a new KB radio turns up that I dont already have in the collection.
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The size of your collection can seriously curtail your enjoyment of it, as I've found out myself over the years.
It becomes too unwieldy and the lack of space stops you from displaying/reparing etc etc due to the sheer number of items in the collection.
My Videogames/hardware collection would fill a church hall if I wanted to display it properly, so as a result most of it is packed away in boxes and stored in 4 or 5 locations including relatives' houses.
I think you've hit the nail on the head there! Before I thinned the collection out and decided to specialize I was acquiring sets willy nilly and actually got up to the dizzy total of around 40! I know this is small beer to many, but even this number was beginning to represent a vast amount of work to be done. I'm definitely a bit of an OCD sufferer and I like all my electronic work to look neat and well executed - no bodges or shortcuts allowed in anything I do! Problem is, everything takes a long time to get finished so keeping the collection small had definite advantages for me.
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A problem I find is that I like doing the electrical restoration but I find the cases a bit tedious so I have several working sets with poor cases.
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This thread has given me pause for thought. I'm planning to downsize to a much smaller house, and inevitably there won't be room for my collection of radios etc.

Sadly it seems that 1930/40s woodies, even restored and working, have little or no monetary value and precious little desirability, so I can see me having to take them down to the tip myself

I've managed to give a few away to friends but the bulk of the collection will have to go.
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Sadly it seems that 1930/40s woodies, even restored and working, have little or no monetary value and precious little desirability, so I can see me having to take them down to the tip myself
Please offer them FOC on here before doing that !!
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