On Jun 24, 7:59 pm, Wayne de Geere III <[email protected]> wrote: > This story is breaking my heart. For that sort of breakage, it would have > made sense to fly out there and pack them up yourselves. I have to admit, the > mea culpas i carry with me would make grown men cry, I know how this feels.
At the time they were pretty cheap - I live in the UK, it would never have made sense to go there personally. I did try to get him to pack them properly, but he never did - just chucked another few in to cover the losses. The newspaper in the photo is all the "packing" they had - it the very same paper they were wrapped in when originally stored in the 1970s and were still in when he discovered the cache in, I believe, a New York warehouse. ISTR there were a fewf thousand of them. When shipping them to us they came in just that sheet of 1970s newspaper - that's all. As far as we know he was the only person to have commercial quantities of these tube - they were all used, and no one has yet seen a genuine NOS 7971 - lots that claim to be, but none verified. SO this cache seems to have been the mother lode. Main problem was that he wasn't a tube guy - he dealt in old coins and really really didn't want the hassle of wrapping them individually and shipping them properly. Several of us tried to reason with him, but to no avail. Ah. Well. Its done now... Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
