I agree it's disappointing on many levels that the collection is being broken up, but the guy handling the auction seems, if he can be believed, to have both had Arneson's blessing to handle his stuff and tried his darndest to contact the family about it.

So with that in mind, I'm going to do my part to preserve some of that history. Whatever I get from the auction will be labelled, stored properly and made available to a museum/Uni collection down the track.