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Re: New member - Question about Collections

From: Monica Erdahl Drake <erdahl~at~idirect.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 15:59:49 -0600
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

I want to thank everyone who sent me information and/or suggestions. As it
has turned out, my father has several books worth in the thousands and by
the time they were less then a quarter way through evaluating his entire
collection.. the insurance adjuster just gave up and will be cutting him a
cheque for the maximum his insurance allows. So my father will be able to
take his time replacing just the books he wishes to re-obtain.

Thank you again everyone and now I am off to begin on his record collection
{sigh}.

Monica

>
> I am a new but brief member to this list. A few months ago, my parents
condo
> bldg burned down and among the lost is my father's Jules Verne Collection.
> Most of the books were neither old enough to be all that valuable (as
> concerns his insurance company) or recent enough to be easily replaceable.
> The books were mainly purchased in the 1950's and 60's and the vast
majority
> were paperback. I am been trying to help him track down values and
> availability which is proving difficult because some are available in
recent
> reprints (which he doesn't want) and some are not available at all except
> through auctions. If he goes the auction route, he will need to actually
bid
> on each book and only after purchasing can he submit a claim. Could take a
> decade. >
>
Received on Mon 16 Sep 2002 - 00:59:14 IDT

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