Monday, July 23, 2012

Retired postal employee leaves art collection worth hundreds of millions of dollars

Great American Art Collector Herbert Vogel Dies

Laumede #16 Gregory Amenoff

"...Slowly, deliberately, but with the eyes of true connoisseurs, the Vogels built up their collection, which some estimate at about 5000 pieces, all on the combined modest salaries of a librarian (Dorothy) and postal worker (Herbert). That collection is now worth incalculable amounts: hundreds of millions of dollars, and climbing,..."    
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