35,000 vintage toys and trains assembled by a Philadelphia collector are to be auctioned by Sotheby'saccording to the Associated Press.
5,000 pieces alone fill the entire floor of Sotheby's auction house in New York, where they are on display until the end of the month.
The collector, Jerry Greene, has kept the collection in five basement rooms of his suburban Philadelphia home, Sotheby's said. He says it's now time to part with it and wants to share it with the world, but wants to find a buyer who will acquire all of it.
Known as the Jerni Collection, it is considered the largest and most comprehensive toy collection in the world, valued in the tens of millions of dollars, said Sotheby's, which is brokering the sale for Greene. It will not be auctioned.
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