Not every collectible asset holds its value. Anyone who ever inherited their parents’ china collection and assumed they might be able to finance a nice vacation in the South of France, only to find the same pieces littering eBay for tens of dollars instead of the thousands they anticipated, is familiar with the way the market for items that were precious to previous generations can fluctuate. But there is fresh evidence that the market for the artifacts of Texas history remains quite robust. On Saturday, Dallas-based Heritage Auctions sold the collection of Texas history enthusiast Ted Lusher. The items in Lusher’s collection ranged from impossibly rare to merely very old. But across the board, nearly all of his more than 165 books, manuscripts, maps, and other…
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