Ah, but, it was (after being rolled up) "dutifully stored in a basement" since the sixties which should easily offset the depreciation from the tack holes. Somehow, a basement just doesn't ring consistent with how one would store a top-shelf collectible that they thought to be worth a relative fortune. Imagine saying, "Yes, yes, yes!!! That's worth a quarter million dollars at least!! Quickly, roll it up and stash it in the basement!"
If the thing is worth the great fortune so rumored, I think he should, at this point, become a very generous philanthropist, donate it to whatever museum it was that [supposedly] wanted it, and take the $5,000,000.00 or whatever tax benefit. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Fraser Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:16 AM To: Antique Phonograph List Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Why hasn't anyone bid? i was preparing to bid, had sold off some of my properties to raise the capital, and was doing some last minute spot-financing when i also noticed the thumbtacks. so i'll not be bidding, after all. On May 17, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Andrew Baron wrote: > This truly annoyed me as well. The same flattening of the artifact > for the photo could have easily been accomplished without puncture > wounds by trapping the top under the edge of the thumb tacks, with > two thumbtacks to retain it at the top and one or two at the > bottom, and no holes required. > > You have to wonder about someone who thinks he has something so > valuable, an amazing survivor of a century's time, having come > along all those years intact, and he puts two holes in it. > > Woof. > > Andy Baron > > > On May 17, 2007, at 8:36 AM, Jeffry Young, D.O. wrote: > >> By the way, has anyone noticed that the seller used thumb tacks to >> support his priceless decal in order to photograph it!!!! Each of >> those >> holes should knock the value down at least a couple thousand >> dollars per >> hole!!!!! ;-) >> >> Jeff >> Wisconsin > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.1/807 - Release Date: 5/16/2007 6:05 PM
