I vividly remember seeing an earlier version of the Farnsworth Museum, probably about fifteen years ago, when it was housed in an antique mall in Fort Wayne. What's more, I'm helping to direct a community theatre production of The Farnsworth Invention, a play by Aaron Sorkin about the development of television, later this fall. Wouldn't it be cool to have some authentic props?
I'm a little surprised, seeing how some of the lots have been broken up, that the TV Guide collection is being sold as one piece. Even accounting for post-Ebay deflation of collectible prices, a collection like that is probably worth thousands of dollars, whereas some of the board game lots they've compiled are practically worthless. They probably could earn more money by selling the TV Guides in lots of a hundred or so, maybe in sets by year or something, in order to open the auction up to the vast majority of collectiors without pockets deep enough to bid on the whole thing.