: If you really want a item...from a collectors
: viewpoint, just bid a irrational price on
: it. It sure will be yours...and sometimes
: its more important that your collections
: gets the very last puzzle piece than the
: price: eg.

(Too late, too hot, too tired to do HTML)

Absolutely... Want to be sure you'll win that Steve McQueen Monaco? Bid $30k for it. You'll get it, Unless a sniper follows you over the cliff!

: with my 70's colection I'm still after a
: olivetti valentine in green: these
: typewriters are mainly made in red...some in
: white (I own 5)...a few in blue (I own one)
: and only for the south africa market in
: green ...I would pay nearly any price to get
: one of them....have only seen one in my
: life...but the front lip was missing: 1800
: usd...

: So Chuck if you find one either by sniping or
: with your warm body..... let me know!

Green Valentine Olivetti [Check] not that I search for Olivetti's very often... But I'll keep my eyes open...

C