Well he did say it was a co worker and her
so I'd say whatever it takes to get the deal done
You just gotta make sure you can get that one into your collection. I know if one of my co workers had it, it would be a by any means necessary situation. I'd be loosing sleep no doubt.
Which reminds me of a similar situation that happened to me many years ago. My old boss maybe 40 years ago had a relative who had served as a US Marine officer in WWI. He had his chest with uniform,Helmet,Gun, documents, The most beautiful German Camo helm as well as a broom handle Mauser in almost perfect condition in it. I almost and probably did drool while handling the items.
I was on him just about daily for years trying to buy it but he just couldn't bring himself to sell it due to sentimental reasons.
This story has a terrible ending, his son later on turned out to be addicted to drugs and when Tom was at work one day broke into his house and stole it all as well as his hunting items and sold them in order to buy more drugs. We were both devastated, I will never forget Toms face. It was horrible to see what he went through with his son who eventually passed from an overdose years later.
A little off the helmet subject , but a similar even about a collection .
I was until not long ago also a collector of items that belonged to Confederate Veterans
Via a story in a family book I tracked down the Granddaughter of a veteran
She lived sort of close to me .
I went to visit her , I had seen a photo of the veteran wearing his reunion medals .
I asked her what happened to them .
She told me that she still had them all , and I got to see them
The daughter of the veteran , James N. Shivers had gone to every reunion with her father
and had saved all of his metals and photos
To make it sweet , J.N. Shivers served in the same regiment as my Great Grandfather
The 7th Tenn. Cavalry CSA under the Command of General N B Forrest
I said to her that I know these are family item , but if for any reason you should
want to sell them , I would be a buyer
I gave her a vale on the group
Time when by and nothing
years later she called me
she was getting older
she had 1 daughter and her daughter was in a relationship with a guy on drugs
she feared the guy on drugs would sell the collection and sell it
so it was time to let it go
I told her that I would keep it together
which I have done
this group was saved
photo of J N Shivers Forrest Cavalry Corp
and his medals
you can see the ones that he is wearing in the dispaly case
Steve
