My understanding is that this auction was pretty much one collection. It gives one pause. Someone spends the better part of a lifetime collecting these pieces. When they pass away, you and I come and each take a small part and put it with the others already in our train rooms. When we go, someone we don't know will come and do the same. It's like the law of conservation of matter: we come and go, while these pieces are still there, just rearranged and recombined into different collections. Odd thought.
