Posted on 05/22/2021 1:37:39 PM PDT by bgill
The $450 million Alamo revitalization effort remains very real, its centerpiece a new museum to be built around the collection of artifacts and documents that rock star Phil Collins donated to the state in 2014. Everyone involved — George P. Bush, the General Land Office, the city of San Antonio, and the Alamo itself — has a lot riding on this. Finally, they promise, the Alamo will be a “world-class destination.”
There’s just one problem. According to a dozen prominent antiquities dealers, collectors, and archaeologists, not to mention the Alamo’s longtime official historian, the Collins collection is not what it’s cracked up to be. The historian, Bruce Winders, who was the first to review the collection and its authentication papers in 2014, tells us its documentation is so sketchy he repeatedly warned his superiors about it. Asked about his level of concern, Winders replies, “There’s enough to make you think that there is some deception going on here.”
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My college roommate was the stepson of a fellow who had written some very well known books about a particular old west legend. He was
Considered something of an expert and hired to consult on movies and things like that. In his old age he bragged that he could go down to an antique store, but an old razor for $1 and write a certificate that it had belonged to the legend and it would sell for hundreds.
Caveat emptor.
Making fun of P ? Urine trouble, buddy !
Am I the only one who automatically rejects anything written by a “journalist”? Especially one with a career with AP.
“There must be some misunderstanding
There must be some kind of mistake”
——————Winner, winner, chucken dinner, “Funnest” post of the day.
That’s nothing. I have Davy Crockett’s M1 Garand.
Piss on Collins all you want, but it says alot that an English man showed more interest and invested more money attempting to preserve and collect history on the most important historical event in Texas history, that Texans, (for all their bloaviating) didn’t seem to give a crap about. I’ll lay money the Smithsonian has a bunch stuff with no chain of custody or papers with authenticity either.
He was a moon around Peter Gabriel's planet. When Gabriel left Genesis, it was over for Collins in his twee overalls.
Banks was the sun.
I cannot stand Phil Collins, if I ever want to get a headache all I gotta do is listen to his crap for a few minutes and I’m there, especially that moronic beer commercial he does “In the air tonight”. The military should do away with waterboarding and replace it with that song. 2 minutes listening to that crap any terrorist will talk
Obviously he’s another white supremacist. /jk
This piano intro of his brings back wonderful memories...
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They are props from the movie “The Alamo”.
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