Mastro - I know I paid too much...

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Posted By: julie

had no idea of the price! I sold an expensive card that I felt I could live without (the T206 Plank, g/vg; I actually prefer the American Caramel profile)), and prayed that it would go closer to $1000 than $35000. I was prepared, though, to spend ALL the money on the Walker photo if I had to (and for that not to be enough!). The bidding went it fits and starts: for instance, $550 showed when i first called to bid--but I had to bid $1900 to be high bidder. "Boy, someone sure does wnat this photo," said the guy at Mastro, (That makes 2 of us, I thought). Then nobody bid for two weeks; the day before the auction closed, there was another flurry of bidding, but on the last day, nothing! $3834 Thursday; $3834 Friday! So I had some left over to bid on something
else I wanted, which I'd put in a low bid for early. I won it about midnight, Friday--so there was some point to staying up late.

That's the first time i ever saw the actual end of a Mastro auction. All the items suddenly say, in red, "bidding closed."

My thanks to Kevin Struss for taking the dumb matting off the photo, and for FINALLY saying "it's an albumen print from the '80s." Apparently, nobody else at Mastro knew that!65 autograph experts and 1 photo expert--cheech.