{O/C} In our final story tonight, let's take a look at why a Jackie Robinson bust and magazines in a vast collection of African-American artefacts and ephemera are due to go on the block in New York.
The collector says she feels the artefacts are valuable because they have been left arcane for so long, their presence has been all but disrespected and shrouded in secrecy.
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{Soundbite} ELIZABETH MEADERS, Collector: So, Jackie was the beginning. He was like the plug that pushed me. But once I got into the collecting field and found out how magnificent and how unappreciated these African-American artifacts and ephemera were, I was just overpowered because I switched from sports to military. I am obsessed by African American history and it was worth my time, worth my emotional investment because here is a history of a noble people that is completely unknown, disrespected, unacknowledged unembraced.
{Soundbite} ARLAN ETTINGER, President of the Guernsey's Auction House: To amassing a collection that really has no equal. People far more knowledgeable than I, very qualified museum directors and historians, have described the Meaders collection as likely the best of its type in the world.
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