OUCH! Painful damage to a purchase while in transit

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by dell webb

I know your pain. I took me years of searching to find a nice circa 1909 Brunswick Balke Collender billiard experts of the world poster at a reasonable price. ...

There are just TOO many of these stories

I also collect billiard items, so I understand how you must have felt - that is a tough piece to pick up affordably. I've never owned it - had to settle for Harpers woodcuts instead

I also collect Edward Curtis items. I picked up a gorgeous large photogravure called 'In the Badlands' for about $300 on ebay, and figured for that price I would be getting a copy. Instead, the postman handed me a miserably small package - a piece of cardboard wrapped around the framed piece and taped, and the 'clinking glass' sound was unmistakeable. I did not know a single piece of glass could end up in so many shards. It was real, and a piece of history was totally destroyed The glass shards had completely defaced the gravure - unrepairable.