What should I do with my collection

[clementrj]

Can anyone make a suggestion as to what I should do with my vacuum cleaner collection? Is there a museum that I can donate to? It's time to downsize and move and can't bring them with me. I will probably keep 3 or 4 but no more.
Thanks for your input.

Richard

 

[electrolux137]

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If you have time, list the best ones on eBay a few at a time. If you list them all as one lot, or list too many at once, you probably won't do very well with them.

Museums generally are not interested in old vacuum cleaners.

If you are just looking to get rid of them, you can always give them away to other collectors. The down-side of that is that it can become a HUGE hassle, with some people pestering you to death and others accusing you of playing favorites. There most likely will be a lot of hard feelings when it's all said and done.

And unless you have a number of collectors nearby, you'll have deal with the tremendous amount of work involved in packing and shipping them (and making sure the recipients pay for the shipping charge before you send them out).

There really is no easy way to do it, sorry to say.

 

[kirbyloverdan]

Tacony Museum

In St. James Missouri has many OLD vacuums contact them to donate your vacuums .

Dan

 

[thevacuumguy96]

Or if you have a Sanitaire or Bison I'll buy them off you.

 

[electrolux137]

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Yes, the Tacony Museum would be a good destination for them. See link.

I don't know what, if any, provision they would be willing to make in terms of the shipping costs. You'd have to discuss that with them.


http://vacuummuseum.com

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Is it possible to post pics?

There's also "Stark's" in Oregon. Another great huge museum of classic vacs.

 

[sries]

I've been to Stark's

It was cool to see some vacuums in person that I had never seen in person before but whoever was running the shop that day didn't really care about anybody that didn't want to buy anything. I asked him how they got all of there vacuums for there ," museum" and he said in a grumpy voice that they mostly get them from trade-ins or they find them in the back of the store. But he said they're running out of room and they're starting to throw them out. I asked them if they had any they were throwing out that I could take but the guy said that they were at their wear house across town and that since I wasn't even going to buy anything that he wasn't even going to think about asking someone to save one for me. Other than that the small ,"museum" part was cool they had lots of rare vacuums there and they weren't all behind ropes and glass cases were you could only see the front of them so you could actually see them. So I don't know if I would donate any to them just because they might throw them out.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Good point!

When we were there, they couldn't have been nicer to us. Some of us did buy, but, not all of us. It was impressive to see so many different, rare machines. Some of our members went nuts when they say some of that stuff.
Even though a lot of it wasn't "my thing", I couldn't help but be impressed and happy for the others.

 

[kirbyloverdan]

Well Tom Gasko

At the HUGE Tacony museum is one of the nicest people you would want to meet . He is very knowledgeable knows a ton about all vacuums and won't throw out vacuums donated . Plus its not a small vacuum shop displaying trade ins this is a 'True Real Vacuum Museum" .

Tom Gasko would be the safest bet a true vacuum enthusiest who isn't interested if you buy something or not he gives his all to all vacuum collectors .

Dan [this post was last edited: 12/16/2014-18:21]

 

[luxlife]

Dan, you're so right about Tom!

His ego isn't in any of this at all. He's more interested that the machines be seen and appreciated by everyone. Clementrj, I'd be sure and let him know exactly which machines you have. Even if there is not a place in the museum for them, Tom will probably know of someone who who might want your machines.