In my opinion, whether you intend to keep your collection until the day you die or not, everyone should at least have the collection inventoried, all items identified, cataloged, photographed, etc, so that at such time as the collection has to be sold, you, your wife, children or whoever will have a chance of getting fair value for it. You might be in a pinch financially and not able to do all that at the last minute,(due to health or other reasons) so doing it ahead of time is very prudent. Just my 2 cents, fwiw. Joe S
