to sell these golly badges?

[JammyGem]

My DDad collected them when he was younger. He has a lot of them and knows I'm a bit hard up for money at the moment.

He gave me a massive box of them and said he didn't know why he'd kept them, but it had come up in conversation with a friend the other day and apparently some of them are worth a lot of money now. He gave me a box of them and said he wanted me to have them, to sell them on and get a bit of money for myself.

WIBU to sell them? I'm very grateful to my DDad but I'm aware of their racist symbolism and would feel a little uncomfortable profiting from it. I also wouldn't even know where to sell them anyway, eBay have banned them. It just makes me uncomfortable but to be honest I really do need the money at the moment.

I think there is only a warning if you are the first person to post on it after it's become a zombie thread.

We have a copy of mein Kampf, it was DHs grandmother's she was a history teacher, she gave it to me before she passed as I'm the only person she knew who speaks German and studied history. I won't be selling it and I don't display it (it's in a cupboard in a spare bedroom), but it is an incredible piece of history.

FFS so many zombie thread today

Is it just me, or are there a dispproportionate number of golly owners on MN compared to the rest of the population? I do not know any people with gollies IRL, although I think my mum had one as a child in the 50s

OP, I would sell them as you neeed the money or do as Laurie suggested and give to a black culture museum or a museum with an exhibition or department of black culture. Or you could try the Jim Crow museum of racist memorobilia in the US, but shipping costs would be high.

I always wanted one of those badges when I was a child, never got one though as my mother used to soak the labels off the jars and re-use them for jam making. In those days they were just tiny replicas of the cuddly toy I had but hated because his head was crooked.

I am aware of the hatred for them now, and the reason, however I look at them with nostalgia because they were part of my childhood, and also part of history.

Part of me will always want a Robertsons badge because they were from days when my life was simple (not especially happy but simple) and just cute little things.

I also think that they should serve to remind people in the future of what they stood for rather than hide the issue, an important issue.

I remember this thread the first time round but didn't comment, wonder what the OP did in the end....