02-26-2008, 08:55 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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Originally Posted by Odin
to keep the cars running, it's a problem, each Museum has to deal with.
I Think the good thing of the ex Kauss Collection was, that you could directly compare different cars, side by side, that people could find out, which cars where competitors, in the same period. In a Museum, one can learn a lot.
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In 2003 Kauss brought the Periscopio car and the Targe Florio to the European Concours in Schwetzingen....and he regularly showed other cars on the Ring as well.
In defense of Mr. Louwman it has to be said that he has a very explicit taste, and many of the cars already sold off were not at all interesting to him. I also never heard that Mr. Kauss made it a condition of sale that the collection should stay together. I think after Frankfurt had turned him down, he was so fed up with everything that he could not care less about his cars.
It is not so that Kidston and Bonhams are working closely together, but it could well be that he was assigned with selling the Alfas as a collection, supposing that the collection would bring more than the sum of the individual cars. Only time will tell whether this strategy has been correct.
best
Pieter
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