Rob, and everyone else,
Yes, stamped and mailed is the best since they have no way to say I faked it.
Ken
On Sunday, April 19, 2015 1:54 PM, Antique Phonograph List
<phono-l@oldcrank.org> wrote:
For me I have a different slant
I was married for 7 years been collecting since 1963
Just got divorced and her lawyer wanted me to give her half my collection
So beware of divorce lawyers
Zono
Rob
Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 19, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Antique Phonograph List <phono-l@oldcrank.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Men- I don't know Ken, but do write here occasionally and value each of you
> when things are discussed. I always find new insight from fellow collectors.
> If Ken could write me / us here, and mention whatever machines he is afraid
> will be confiscated, knowing which ones I could then write a letter stating
> in correspondence that I know he has and owns. It's very unfortunate "The
> System" will use it's leviathan powers to vacuum up anything and everything
> it can to justify it's existence. While we are sleeping they are encroaching
> in areas they shouldn't be- namely confiscating things they have no proof of
> someone owning. If I can help Ken in any way such as this I will. Even if
> these items were his Moms , and they aren't in this case, who is the state to
> be the judge and take everything if Ken is a Son and should get them?
> Something for all of us to ponder regarding our collections ! Charlie.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 6:36 AM PDT Antique Phonograph List wrote:
>>
>> I will certainly write one Ken. As for others on this board who may not
>> know Kenneth, I have known him for probably 10 to 12 years, having met on a
>> phonograph collecting forum in the past. He has had some fine machines and
>> has been collecting for quite some time. He suffers from a serious disease
>> and has faced prejudice for it, even from his own family. I think those if
>> us who know him need to rally to his defense here and help him protect his
>> property from the assisted living facility that cared for his mother. Those
>> places will swoop in and take whatever they can get to recoup their
>> exorbitant fees.I'll mail mine out first thing tomorrow, Ken (I am assuming
>> you'd rather have something on paper, stamped and mailed to you so they can
>> see that the letters are coming from different parts of the country and were
>> not just whipped up on the computer by you).I'm so sorry for the loss of
>> your mother, and if there is anything else I can do, you know
> you can just ask me.John Robles
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, April 19, 2015 3:04 AM, Antique Phonograph List
>><phono-l@oldcrank.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Dear Phono Friends,
>> My heart died last Thursday when the state appointed guardian for my mother
>> came rushing into the house and demanding my brothers phone number and so I
>> gave it to her and ask her what was going on. Her name is Flow Cooper and
>> she is so hateful to me and I have always tried to be as nice to her so that
>> she would work with me to help my mother but she and the judge used my
>> health agents me so that she had total control when I could see my mother
>> and when I could not and mostly it was a not this week you can not. Well she
>> grabbed my phone out of my had and started going through it and then called
>> my brother and told him that she was slipping away and likely not make it
>> through the night. Later I found out that she had died early that morning
>> about 9am. Lori acrossed the street drove me the to ALF where she was.
>> From what I was told I expected her to still be alive but they told me I was
>> to late as I walked up to my mother I could see she was gone
> and I started to cry. I do not know why she just did not tell me when I
> asked what was going on. I asked her what was going on and what should I do.
> She said to me that now I had better prepare to prove what is mine in the
> house such as my phonograph collection and every thing else that was mine and
> if I can not they are going to take and sell it off and keep the money to pay
> the bills for her care and leave me with nothing. Mrs. Cooper even said she
> knew that my father and mother collected the machines and that they were not
> mine. They even want to take my fountain pen collection, oil and kerosene
> lamps too. After than she just walked out and slammed the door behind her.
> Anyone that knows that I collect Phonographs and Graphophones ,I need letters
> saying just that I do and that I also collect antique oil and kerosene lamps
> along with fountain pens. Please write the letters in a formal way with
> return addresses so that it does not look like I
> just made them up. When you go to phonograph shows and buy and sell stuff or
> trade it is normally a cash transaction as you know and there is normally no
> record of it. All this and dealing with my mothers death.... I don't know
> how much more I can take alone with being sick. Please send the letters to
> my address below. I need the letters as soon as possible as I am sure I will
> have to go to court soon over this. I am asking you to please help me by
> doing this so I do not loose the investment I made in them so I could sell
> them off as I needed to help support myself as my disability checks are not
> enough for me to live off of alone.
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Kenneth Keeton123 Lime Road North WestLake Placid, Florida 33852-6867(863)
>> 243-1011
>>
>>
>>
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