You are right about that. I have visited a number of times, have met the owners and gotten a little behind the scenes peek. There is not much that you haven’t already seen in a museum or an antiques shop, but this stuff is in large quantities and because of its burial in the mud, is in pristine condition. It was brand new when it was lost and still looks that way.
There are more of them out there on the flood plain, at the highest point in th$ countym we are in a steamboat free zone.