Found all four of the original Blackwing Volumes (725, 211, 1138, 24). Keep the boxes together or make sets?
I was a Volumes subscriber from the start and just pulled the first four out of storage: 725 (Dylan at Newport), 211 (John Muir), 1138 (Melies and A Trip to the Moon), and 24 (Steinbeck).
None of the boxes are complete anymore. I have at least six pencils of each, and a pencil or two in some boxes got sharpened once and are still close to full length. I have the sealed archive tubes for 211, 1138, and 24. If 725 came with one, it didn't survive my last move. I still have the boxes and sleeves for all four.
I'm thinking about passing these on to people who will use or appreciate them, and I can't decide how. Since the boxes are already short, part of me thinks one pencil of each volume as a set makes more sense than four partial boxes. Another part of me thinks the boxes should stay together.
For those of you who collect Volumes:
- Would you rather have a set of all four, or a partial box of one volume?
- Do the archive tubes matter much to you?
- Does a pencil that was sharpened once lose most of its appeal, or is it just a user at that point?
I'm not selling anything in this thread. I just want opinions from people who know these better than I do.