Don't mess with Texas.
I’ve got Travis’ 8 track tape player. Works great.
I'm sure the Collins collection is more real than that in my hometown museum.
“the Collins collection is not what it’s cracked up to be”
Wow, just like his “music”.
The way this country is heading, the artifacts are worthless and are racist for being used against the Mexican army at the time....
Remember, history that was always taught is wrong....
At least in the minds of people that hate our Country...
God Bless America 🇺🇸
No surprise. The better the item the better the story that comes with it. Caveat emptor. Buying directly from family is best but not fool proof. The problem with the Alamo items is it was so long ago that it makes provenance of privately owned items very difficult to prove.
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my research earlier this week indicated there is a pissing contest going on about the museum funding so thus the smear scandal
My uncle was amazingly well informed on antiques; guns, coins, stamps, furniture, you name it. His research book collection ran well over a thousand and he knew every word. He was fascinating to walk around a show with. He knew not just what something was, but the political or industrial background context in which it was made. Occasionally, he’d point out a fake antique that was well over 100 years old. The Romans had fakes from Egypt, Greece and the other empires long gone. For as long as people have collected stuff, other people created fakes. Now, some of those fakes are collector items themselves.
And, 100 years from now, most people will never know the difference. Heck, the vast majority of people don’t know the difference now.
Gosh, I love people who are so into something that they know it backwards and forwards and they can make a good tale out of what they know. Of course, it might be challenging with a topic like, say, the history of rubber bands...
A pop star could be a moronic dupe?
Who knew?
They are saying it’s all been a pack of lies?
I just had a mental image of Jan Hooks saying “Tortillas!”
Meh, those “professionals” always get mad when a private guy kicks their ass. Same with all the tomb exploration in Egypt. A private guy found Troy.
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.