The irony is that compared to past generations of people in their prime earning years, many young people of today are not big collectors of historic artifacts at all. They are not likely to pay very much for the purchase, display and storage such things. In the past, almost every family home had a China Cabinet. Not as common today.
No, the irony is that NPR publishes this crap on our dime-—rather on our trillion dollar debt. Why do we need this agency that lives on the taxpayer’s teet? Why?