I would tend to agree-
[QUOTE=Robert Delk;15175]Osthaus in the trash? I think I'm going to be ill.....Osthaus, Tate, Rousseau and others. I bought a Osthaus print of Sports Peerless Pride from a used book dealer going out of business about 12 years ago, older gilt style frame. So many great writers and artists of a gentler time, now gone.
I once read, possibly GBE, about a wealthy bachelor sportsman who had a vast library of the classics we so eagerly seek today. Upon his passing his executors were ordered to burn them all to ashes, as he didn't want sharks and speculators hawking his former collection for a profit.
A former fly-fishing friend who passed now 10 years donated his cane rods and books (mainly Sparse G. Hackle and Ernie Schweibert) to the FFF museum in West yellowstone with the stipulation they may never be sold.
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