[BCMA] Question re high value Donation

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv]

Dear Tammy et al
Not directly answering your questions at all.  But raising an interesting
situation with your objects being tin and me being a conservator
 particularly of metal.

If you had an emergency in winter and your gallery/ store got to minus 13
 the tin objects would change to their allotrope of beta tin  and not be
the nice metallic tin but become  tin dust

Allotropes are same element different form , a few elements can do this

We call this tin pest
Some believe Napoleon invasion of Russia one problem was the tin buttons
changed to dust
Cheers Paul Harrison  in Burnaby


On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 at 17:04, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv <
listserv at lists.museum.bc.ca> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I work in a tiny museum in a remote area. We don’t typically receive large
> donations of artifacts so I need some advice.
>
> A couple of years ago, I had a significant donation of artifacts from a
> tin collector. He supplied a signed appraisal and requested a tax receipt.
> We were excited to add the items to the collection but we noticed the
> valuation of items was quite high and often considerably high compared to
> other items we could find online.
>
> This year he contacted us again to offer more items. The valuation is over
> $25,000. It has the required appraisal. My new Board of Directors is
> concerned about accepting the donation because of the need to write a tax
> receipt for that amount.
>
> Is there need for their concern? I have been asked to find out if writing
> a tax receipt for that amount impacts the organization in any way.
>
> Thank you in advance for your help with this matter. You can email
> jbfletcherstore at gmail.com if you have any insight to share.
>
> Tammy
>
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