there comes a time, for a few, when they decide it's time to quit collecting and sell off the museum full of stuff they've spent a life time acquiring. Of course, others are "going to restore it someday". Here's a museum in the Netherlands that was just auctioned off

 

Sure, there's a lot of the usual stuff... but I'm bored of looking at the usual normal stuff. So here's some of the interesting stuff instead:

a Briggs and Stratton made to power an outboard! 

A ship's whistle! Hand crank on the other side

https://onlineveilingmeester.nl/nl/veilingen/4011/kavels?fbclid=IwAR2jlR8Wyg46kHjAgEJ3Q4AgLkHPXoh5YY7171Miuki4rAd-89rYBJR7ogA&status=gesloten&page=2