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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
With the Wagner you'd be depriving someone of life-changing money and IMO the disparity between purchase price and value is unconscionable. Here, you just got a very good deal on a piece in the scheme of things not that big.
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I would think of it more from the perspective of the Wagner being well known even to people who don't collect.
I only get by in hobbies by knowing what something is or isn't. That someone else can't or won't make the connection or notice a detail is important.
Most of my "good" pieces are buys like this one, a better item that a seller just didn't know something about it.
Some are just too obscure for a dealer to bother with. The one time I did mention it was a dealer I consider more of a friend after almost 40 years.
I mentioned one of his dollar postcards was probably a bit special and should be more. He told me that I should just buy it if I thought it was better. So I did, and looking a couple things up it turns out I was right. (Not a super expensive item, but cool)