Heritage Auctions - Boston Garters

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Originally Posted by molenick

I don't have a solution but I am just curious. Do we (mostly) think the set is the winner because it closed first? What if all the individual lots had closed first but the set was still open? And the individual lots were higher than the set when they all closed, but then the set bidding went over the individual total? Then we would have had multiple people going to sleep thinking they had won, only to be told the next day they had lost because the set topped them.

I think if all the individual lots had closed first, and total value was higher than the full set lot price at the time, we'd have the same issue here but in reverse. And then those lot winners would be in the right. But obviously that's not what happened here.