What will happen to your collection when you go to that final tomb?

[MDG]

I have three friends who are all very savvy on comics, original art, collectibles, etc, as well as eBay and comic show selling experience. The agreement is that when one of us goes, the others can pick something out for ourselves (if we want), then help the family get the best value for anything they don't want to keep.

[ramsey37]

Who says I'm going?
George

[Crazy1van]

My girlfriend will get the DVDs, to divvy out as she deems fit; I know she won't want all of it.  My son gets the rest of the collectibles, which he will be free to sell if he decides they're no longer his thing.

I would kind of like to be buried with my silver-wolfs-head cane, but I won't be upset if someone wants it.  In fact, I won't be upset if they opt to cremate me.  Heck, maybe I'll include a proviso in my will that anyone who gets anything from my estate has to carry a portion of my ashes with them for a year, so I get the opportunity to haunt them at my leisure.

[mike c]

Even if I dropped this very minute, my things will be divided between four of my youngest family members. They are all monster fans due in very large part to my direct (and diabolical) influence during their formative years, hehe!

And it's not like it's terribly valuable to anyone BUT the family of a monster freak, especially when they are also monster freaks themselves, right?

In the end it's just stuff. LOVELY, joyful, inspiring, but 'stuff' nonetheless.

Mike C.

[toysoldierman2001]

When I go my Wife will get all my stuff to sell.If she goes before me or we go together then my Grandsons who are already in to monsters will get everything

[Cinemacabre]

I've left mine to the Legeon Of Squirrels. (Hey, they asked first!)

[Anton Phibes]

Mine's going to one or both of my sons.  With a stipulation that if they ever divorce it reverts to my youngest brother.  The only stuff I wanna make sure they keep is the stuff I painted and built. But its best to keep it all up for them. Not that its a great legacy or anything, I've jsut spent so much time collecting it, I would hate it if it wound up in a landfill or divided and dolled out to strangers.

[James Lurgio]

Well, this is a very unique question. First of all, I fully intend on living another 50 years or so as I'm only 31 but so much can change in that amount of time and if I don't have that kind of time.. WHO KNOWS!!?? Ideally, I'd like to run the museum for the rest of my life and expand when funds allow. By the time I'm ready to go I hope that I have children who would want to carry on the museum and my dream. Hopefully I will have taught them for years about how to do this strange thing that I do. If I don't have children, I would want my nephews to take it over and hopefully I will have done the same with them. If none of that happens, I suppose my relations will sell the museum piece by piece or as a museum. I just hope I don't somehow fail with the museum and am forced to close as so many of these things have to do at one time or another. I myself, have some pieces from collectors who have been forced to do just that. I also hope these things actually last that long! These are mere latex, or resin or silicone after all. Sadly, I'm sure quite a bit of it won't last that long. Interesting topic! THEN I want to be in one of those HUGE victorian mausoleums. You know, the kind in the Haunted Mansion movie? Great resting place to spend eternity.

James Lurgio
Nightmare Productions

[Universal Steve]

A question I have discussed many times. I asked my son to take over the empire. He has told me that he could not care for a collection that large as  well as I could. My daughter has no interest what so ever. I asked my son that he keep a couple of items that he could remember me by. Probably the Sideshow Dracula bust or the Bride Premuim format figure. I was hoping he would take the whole thing but that is not going to happen. I told the rest of the family to sell it off then and hopefully to another Universal Monster collector. I want someone to have it that it will give as much pleasure to as I got from it. Since my "death" from my heart attack a lot of questions like this came up. It was a reality check for me. I survived and have no plans to go yet. I am 52 years old and I am hoping for another 52. Aw what the heck, I am going to take it with me.

[kklloo]

My son. If he wants to, he can sell it. Whatever he sees fit. Right now he is only 4, so hopefully I have a long ways to go, but I always figured I can pass it on to him. He can do whatever he sees fit, as long as it benefits him.

[Hepcat]

Unfortunately for my wife, if there isn't some sort of collection deaccession, she'll be shoveling this crap into a dumpster. 

That's the scenario I dread when it comes to anybody's collections.

 

[judd]

I don't have an answer.  It's a difficult question.  I have my grandfather's coin collection.  I have no siblings or children.  I've never been married.  I just don't know what will become of the things I've collected over the years. 

The DVD's probably won't be playable in the upcoming decades.  We don't know what the collector's market will be in the future.  My grandfather's Jim beam bottle collection wasn't worth much of anything when we sold it. 

It's an unknown as to what will happen this my possessions when it's my time.

[John Pertwee]

I have left a few letters detailing the high dollar items but doubt that they will bother doing much research.

[Mrs Frankenstein]

I collect a bunch of things and most of it is old and many would say kit has historical value of some sort. For the most part, I couldn't care less what happens when I'm gone, as long as my letters, diaries etc. are burned.
However I have a collection for a film project that is collected as an archive and that will be donated to The Library of Congress.
I would probably advice collectors who sit on something that is truly unique and of interest to many to do the research and find a good archive or museum to take that collection or piece.
They will give you credit for your donation, not that it really matters, but it's always nice with respect.
 

[Mike Scott]

For the most part, I couldn't care less what happens when I'm gone

I know nobody will want to mess around with all of my stuff, so I'm going to wait till the last minute and sell it all to dealers for whatever they want to give me for it.