REA is open

[Rhotchkiss]

Great auction (hate the hard stop, all lots at midnight, ebay-style auction though - see below).

Aside from the D303 Lajoie, I got totally blown out. The E107 Lajoie went for crazy money and I finally backed off the T206 Willetts Brown Lenox once it pushed past $16k. Crazy prices on these. I also thought may of the rare-back T206s did well, especially the Wajo and Young Hindus, and the Speaker BL 350. I would have bid on several of these and others, but the hard stop at midnight scared me and I just backed off everything.

In my opinion, the steal of the auction was the E107 Plank for under $10k.

All-in-all, I expect consignors are happy.

On a different note, I have grown to very much dislike the every lot closing at midnight thing. Its basically like Ebay now. I had no idea how much I would be in for, or how much of my max bids would be used, so it was very difficult to estimate the parameters of my potential liability. As a result, i just gave up. I strongly prefer the close at 3am or the lot-by-lot closing. Having an Ebay-type closing in an auction of this size and magnitude is really tough in my opinion.