My Uncle had a lot of first edition comics, read them once and stored them in box and left them at home.40 years later he asked his mother about them, my Grandmother, hoping for a big windfall. “Well” she said, “there were some cold winters back in the sixties and we burnt everything in the house”. Then a few years later my Uncle came back for old gilded picture frames, there were a lot of paintings in the house. They were now worth a lot, my Grandmother… “Well it was cold in the ….”
My Uncle had a lot of first edition comics, read them once and stored them in box and left them at home.40 years later he asked his mother about them, my Grandmother, hoping for a big windfall. “Well” she said, “there were some cold winters back in the sixties and we burnt everything in the house”. Then a few years later my Uncle came back for old gilded picture frames, there were a lot of paintings in the house. They were now worth a lot, my Grandmother… “Well it was cold in the ….”