[VOA]

Now, having spent months going through enough boxes to fill 25 40ft-long lorries
when he moved the archive to a more secure warehouse

For us 'Muricans...that's TWENTY-SIX SEMI TRAILERS full of
memorabilia.

This was covered on CNBC's "On The Money" Show a while back.
IIRC, Sagan bought the collection from Clear Channel Comm. (the radio guys).
Apparently the collection was so voluminous that the Clear Channel guys
didn't even know that the valuable old recordings were in the collection.

[sushiman]

More power to Sagan . A $5 mill investment probably worth over $ 100 million . The radio guys must be ready to jump out a window . Idjits !