[ Jamie Brewer wrote in 160116 MMDigest:

> I have had a number of instances to witness horrible neglect
> given to music boxes on display at historic sites.

I have heard stories about collectors 'liberating' various relics from
alleged museums that were destroying or neglecting them.  I am truly
conflicted about the morality of that.  One person told me of a museum
that had one of the flags surrendered by Lee's army at Appomattox --
it was nothing but cloth confetti in the bottom of a display case.

Larry Mayo