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Originally Posted by Exhibitman
I forgot to bid the first night--too many other irons in the fire. Missed a couple of items I'd have gone after for a lot more. Their multiple-closing, multiple-format, many-rules set up has gotten out of hand but seemed to work to my advantage yesterday as I picked up a lot at its opening bid during the live session [my placeholder bid held], which I really did not expect. A pair of Wood imperial sized cabinets from 1897 of Fitzsimmons and Corbett:
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The good news on these is that the crud on the top and bottom of the Corbett cabinet was the remnants of an old mat, not chunks out of the cabinet itself, and it fell off when I pulled the card out of the holder. It actually looks a lot better. I will need to send it to a paper conservation expert to have it de-acidified and buffered for the long term I think.