spent 50 years acquiring rare and one-
of-a-kind pieces
of American history, including books, photographs, paintings and ephemera. An assessment of five of the pieces puts their total value somewhere between $592,000 and $940,000. His goal was to turn it into a museum. Now that it is out of his possession, he just wants to see his life's work remain intact.
Years ago Montague and his wife of 56 years, Rose Casalan, began taking out loans to archive and prepare the collection for sale.