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Not really being modest. It probably took 15 years to collect 10 globes!

It sounds like maybe you want to focus on restoring pumps. Maybe you could buy and sell pumps and even part some pumps out to help fund your collection.

Topics like this remind me of a good friend and fellow oldgasser that built a very nice globe collection with a limited budget of twenty-some dollars a week. He bought, sold and traded globes to better his position.

If you need a new car would you say poor me and do without? Or would you devise a plan to make the new car purchase a reality? It's no different than wanting a rare pump. If you want it badly enough, you can make it happen!