I live near Worcester and I'd never heard of this guy before now, but what a fascinating life he led -- up to and including the way he died:

"Green died violently at the age of 83, cut down by an assassin's bullet in a case of mistaken identity."

He left so much stuff that it's going to take four days to auction it all off:

Link to Auction Catalog (new window)

/Subby

I'm desperately clicking on my online bank account, hoping some more money will magically show up so I can go to the auction.

/Sigh. Nothing there yet. I'll keep trying.

Woman never even bothers to opens boxes of great-great-granduncle's things stored in attic, possibly due to the fact that the stuff belonged to her great-great-granduncle . Nephew inherits it all, decides money outweighs sentiment. Auction expected to fetch in the millions.

FTFY

Old_Chief_Scott: tototototo: FTFY

Dude, did you even look at the list of stuff? Who has room to keep all of that in their house?

Who hocks several generations worth of family heirlooms?

tototototo: Woman never even bothers to opens boxes of great-great-granduncle's things stored in attic, possibly due to the fact that the stuff belonged to her great-great-granduncle . Nephew inherits it all, decides money outweighs sentiment. Auction expected to fetch in the millions.

FTFY

Sounds like the naked truth. She was respectful. Nephew... not so much. It's different if the nephew was the only living relative, including having no descendents of his own. If he didn't know the great great granduncle personally, there's no sentimental value. Still, he really wanted nothing that belonged to the old man to prove the old man existed and has a connection to him?

tototototo: Who hocks several generations worth of family heirlooms?

people who keep heirlooms are afraid of death.

tototototo: Old_Chief_Scott: tototototo: FTFY

Dude, did you even look at the list of stuff? Who has room to keep all of that in their house?

Who hocks several generations worth of family heirlooms?

The family didn't even know they had it. To them it had no sentimental value. I doubt it did when they finally decided to see what was in there.

George Washington's will is not the same thing as my great-great grandmothers wedding ring or my great-great grandfathers watch repair kit that he made a living from.

tototototo: Old_Chief_Scott: tototototo: FTFY

Dude, did you even look at the list of stuff? Who has room to keep all of that in their house?

Who hocks several generations worth of family heirlooms?

If they were worth millions and sitting about in the attic?

This guy.

haddie: tototototo: Old_Chief_Scott: tototototo: FTFY

Dude, did you even look at the list of stuff? Who has room to keep all of that in their house?

Who hocks several generations worth of family heirlooms?

If they were worth millions and sitting about in the attic?

This guy.

Same here. I'd keep anything that was particularly cool or meaningful, but who the hell is selfish enough to keep a bunch of junk when others want it so bad to pay you millions of dollars?

Lucky stiff.

Barakku:
Same here. I'd keep anything that was particularly cool or meaningful, but who the hell is selfish enough to keep a bunch of junk when others want it so bad to pay you millions of dollars?

Especially when they mostly amount to little more than collectibles of a relative you'd never even met.

Sure, keep some family stuff as a conversation piece, but stuff is just stuff.

tototototo: Old_Chief_Scott: tototototo: FTFY

Dude, did you even look at the list of stuff? Who has room to keep all of that in their house?

Who hocks several generations worth of family heirlooms?


At those prices?

Who doesn't? Sentimental value can shove it, I got pictures from that. If I came across something from my great-great grandpa I never knew,and it would give me enough money to be set for life, I'd sell it pretty fast.

Jebus, can we just change the headline to "This is the tototototo thread, comment below" and leave it at that? You guys love to feed trolls. Worst thread ever.

haddie: This guy.

Made me think of:


/hot

A) Who's to say the guy didn't keep any number of pieces for sentimental reasons?

B) I wouldn't keep a lot of crap around from my aunt's father's uncle that I never knew either.

C) Maybe he's just not the sentimental type, and what's wrong with that? Why do we need material things to remember people?

The toys were absolutely fantastic.

skinink: Jebus, can we just change the headline to "This is the tototototo thread, comment below" and leave it at that? You guys love to feed trolls. Worst thread ever.

Iron Chef Scottish: Lucky stiff.

Amen. I wish the multiple generations of white trash that led to me had had anything worth a damn to leave behind.

tototototo: Old_Chief_Scott: tototototo: FTFY

Dude, did you even look at the list of stuff? Who has room to keep all of that in their house?

Who hocks several generations worth of family heirlooms?

People who like money and not old stuff.

My dead family members would think I'm an idiot if I decided to hoard all their crap when it could be sold for a million bucks.

DarthBrooks: Wait - did you catch this part from TFA?

Julia, a museum professional whose employers included Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, neither married nor had children. Taking custody of the Green collection, she never seemed curious about its contents, either, according to her nephew John Green


What a dumbass - and she worked in a museum?

I didn't catch that--that's ridiculous. How could you possibly not be curious? I wish I were related to someone so fascinating.

i81icu812: My dead family members would think I'm an idiot if I decided to hoard all their crap when it could be sold for a million bucks.

Though interest rates have dropped, I'm still fairly confident that if I had a million dollars I'd never have to work another day in my life. So for me, easy decision: Own a whole bunch of stuff that's been in boxes for decades and work to pay for storage of unseen/unused stuff, or sell the stuff and never have to work again (most likely, anyway).

Sadly my relatives are unlikely to have even one box of cool stuff anywhere, and if they do they probably won't leave it to me.

Wikipedia on Andrew H Green Link (new window)

Julia, a museum professional whose employers included Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, neither married nor had children. Taking custody of the Green collection, she never seemed curious about its contents, either, according to her nephew John Green

What a dumbass - and she worked in a museum?

Maybe she just wanted to preserve and archive it, and valued it for it's age, not what it was. Opening it to poke through it could damage it. Leaving it alone is not something I could do, but I can see someone of the right mindset doing it, especially if they thought opening it would cause damage.

i81icu812: My dead family members would think I'm an idiot if I decided to hoard all their crap when it could be sold for a million bucks.

My family members are just lucky I don't take their stuff and sell it while they're alive.

DarthBrooks: Wait - did you catch this part from TFA?

Julia, a museum professional whose employers included Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, neither married nor had children. Taking custody of the Green collection, she never seemed curious about its contents, either, according to her nephew John Green


What a dumbass - and she worked in a museum?

farquette: I didn't catch that--that's ridiculous. How could you possibly not be curious? I wish I were related to someone so fascinating.



But you WORK in a museum!
No, I work in a shiatty museum.

FTA: "John Green anticipates a total sale of $1 million or more."

He's joking right?
RIGHT?

A bit pessimistic I'd wager....

But, alas, we may never know.

I found out a few of my grandfather's old shirts have a little value. It has very little to do with this article, but I had no idea shirts could gain value from being old.

/i kept them
//they're comfortable

tototototo: Old_Chief_Scott: tototototo: FTFY

Dude, did you even look at the list of stuff? Who has room to keep all of that in their house?

Who hocks several generations worth of family heirlooms?

He's the 5th generation of a family that didn't care much for them either. Some grandparents will lovingly display every knicknack and have an hours-long story about each one... mostly for the purpose of entertaining/torturing young grandchildren, so when the grandparents and their children die off, the grandkids will KNOW what all of that stuff is, know its history, and have sentimental attachment to it.

This stuff, however, was boxed up in an attic for most of the last century, and it's likely that even if the prior owners had an idea of what was in there, they didn't really know the significance. So while a 5th generation nephew understands the historical significance, there really is no family attachment.
So, since he doesn't care much about the stuff, he can either continue the legacy and keep it boxed up in the attic, or he can share it with the world in whatever way he sees fit. At least now you know the stuff won't be hidden away.

That is all.

No one buy his Bible.

Lot 8F. Andrew Green's Personal Bible The New Testament, leather bound. A penciled note in the Bible was made by Mr. Green: "Finished Nov. 13, 1903" - he died on this date.

Kill the mentally ill: No one buy his Bible.

Lot 8F. Andrew Green's Personal Bible The New Testament, leather bound. A penciled note in the Bible was made by Mr. Green: "Finished Nov. 13, 1903" - he died on this date.

Or just keep reading it until you want to die.

I think the guys from pawn stars would give him at least $4500 american.

Sentimental value? Well, first of all, there's nothing that says the nephew didn't hang on to a couple of things. Second, look at the sheer *amount* of stuff that's up for sale - hanging on to all of that out of sentiment would be insane - there's enough there to fill three houses. Reverence for family aside, even one of those lots would be a lot of work to take care of, and they're not connected to anyone he would have had even a passing acquaintance with, it's too long ago. I loved looking at the lots, especially the Victorian toys and clothing, but if I suddenly had all of that dumped on me I'd be looking to sell it or donate it to a museum that could care for it properly. One 200-year-old family dress is nice, 40 of them is a headache.

I wonder where his 'squeeze whistle' is located?

tototototo: Old_Chief_Scott: tototototo: FTFY

Dude, did you even look at the list of stuff? Who has room to keep all of that in their house?

Who hocks several generations worth of family heirlooms?


Anyone with a brain.
Intrinsic value is just that.
Sentiment means nothing to investors.
When relatives are gone they don't need or want this stuff.
If you over look this you are a crybaby loser.

Seen rushing to the scene.

atomic-age: Iron Chef Scottish: Lucky stiff.

Amen. I wish the multiple generations of white trash that led to me had had anything worth a damn to leave behind.

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The descendants of the working stiffs don't fare much better. Paternal grandfather was an Episcopal minister in Wyoming. Died penniless. Maternal grandfather was a Montana coal miner who lost the family homestead in a poker game.

Did end up with a complete 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica set though. The newest articles were written one or two years before going to print, so it has some pretty hilarious things to say about how awesome the stock market is and how buying on margin is the key to wealth and prosperity.

Outside of that, I'm mostly bootstrappiness.