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Missouri and in his upcoming book. What's more he is the only collector alive who spent more than a year traveling around the world, from continent to continent, collecting and documenting his finds. If history teaches any lessons at all, Bert will be remembered as the one individual in our time who preserved treasures of the past, which would have otherwise been completely lost or forgotten. I am confident future generations will realize the value of his work even more than today
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from 1928-1933. While attending Pomona
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