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I recently bought a piece of a deck chair that was on the Lusitania. While it was a relatively unimportant historical artifact as far as its use to historians goes, it still had to be destroyed to make the collectibles that were sold. How do professional historians feel about this trend?

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I recently bought a piece of a deck chair that was on the Lusitania. While it was a relatively unimportant historical artifact as far as its use to historians goes, it still had to be destroyed to make the collectibles that were sold. How do professional historians feel about this trend?	1