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Dear Brad:  you said:
"I actually DO have an MHR-1 (German Version of the Bygrave).  Get ready to 
hear the collectors moaning, I USE it, without gloves."

without gloves ....ahhhhrrrgh! Hope you wash your hands. All that acid... 
(Sorry to be a nanny, but they are very rare I believe). Museum archivists 
would have a blue fit at what you said.

I have fondly thought for over thirty years or more that I might be lucky and 
find one in a 'car boot sale', or antique shop or something like that! 
Nothing doing of course.

E-Bay does at least make things like this available now when they crop-up, but 
it is still amazing to think that hundreds were made but now all gone ... 
where? one wonders?

I suspect that like so many things they just get thrown away as the person 
throwing away never considers for a moment that anyone could possibly want 
the object as it is rubbish; and before EBay there was no market place for 
unusual objects.  EBay probably is going to be a great influence in 
preserving a good many objects around today that would definitely not be 
around in another ten years because of the "rubbish" throwaway syndrome.

I have been scouring second-hand bookshops since my teens and the same can be 
said of scientific books. It is very rare to find say, a nineteenth century 
scientific book by one of the great scientists of the time. I am lucky to 
have found one or two: 'Sound' by Tyndall;  'Mechanical Subjects' by Joseph 
Whitworth;  and Skerryvore Lighthous and Illumination Optics' by Stephenson 
for example.

Today there are very few second-hand bookshops at all, and those that survive 
simply do not have any science books (or very few of 'modern' ones) - partly 
because they are not available anyway for the reason above (they have been 
thrown away) or, as I was told by more than one bookshop owner when I queried 
why no science books? - "they don't sell as no one is interested in them !

Douglas Denny.
Chichester. England.


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