Because They Were So Darned Cheap

Terry Mawhorter loves it when I go to his auctions.  It's not that I'm a big spender that will drive the price of a $2,000 pen up to $5,000 or anything, it's because usually, assisted by a couple of drinks, I'm bidding on stuff when nobody else is just because I think something's going a little too cheap.

But at the Raleigh show, I had to make a special effort not to indulge in liquid encouragement before auction time, since Terry had asked me to help out auction and I was not sure what level of sobriety would be required for the job.  I assumed that my newfound lucidity would dampen my enthusiasm and keep my hand from flying up in Pavlovian response to the words "Lot Number . . ."

I was wrong.  Well, ok, I didn't buy a bunch of things that are completely unrelated to my collection (I'm still wondering what I was thinking at the Ohio Show's auction last November), but I did bid on some things that I wouldn't normally go for, like these . . .

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