That's enough for me. Bob Hansing (and his heirs) can take every bit of his inventory to the grave before I'll spend a nickel for it.
Joe
At 08:35 PM 2/26/01 -0800, Jim Cunningham wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard M Sachs [mailto:richardsachs@juno.com]
>Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 3:43 PM
>To: cyclartist@home.com
>Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: Re: [CR]The rest of the Medici story
>
>
>On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:57:49 -0800 "Jim Cunningham" <cyclartist@home.com>
>writes:
>After Mario's death, his bereaved newlywed wife sold off
>his tools and inventory to an unscrupulous buyer for $800.
>___________________________________________________________
>who was the buyer?
>why was he unscrupulous?
>e-RICHIE
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Cunningham [mailto:cyclartist@home.com]
>Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 10:19 PM
>To: Richard M Sachs
>Subject: RE: [CR]The rest of the Medici story
>
>Richard,
>
>Bob Hansing of Euro Asia. He took advantage of a distraught widow. I had
>been there on a Thursday and taken an inventory, I was trying to raise the
>money for a decent offer. Word leaked to Hansing, (via Kirkbride) who
>swooped in the following Sunday. Wholesale value of the tools (3 complete
>Campagnolo tool chests, extensive set of files, torches, hand tools, frame
>fixtures etc., on the inventory list I took was nearly $20,000.) I wanted
>to offer at least $5,000, more if I could get it.
>I could never lowball by that much and would certainly not have done so when
>I knew that someone was trying to raise a fair price for the widow.
>JFC