Parochial to be sure. But it demonstrates Chuck Schmidt's point perfectly. The US is the biggest market in the world (although the unified EU may soon overtake us), US buyers still predominate on eBay, and an all-chrome Schwinn Paramount is THE bike that millions of aging US baby boomers remember lusting after but being unable to afford In The Day. Note that the buyer is indeed from the US. So the Hetchins may be more rare, but the Paramount is familiar to far more buyers than the Hetchins, and that translates into much more demand and therefore much higher price.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX
wrote: Personally, I find the idea of Naiman's pre-war British Hetchins a lot more exciting than any American Schwinn. The whole thing about Paramounts strikes me as rather parochial.
Emanuel Lowi
Montreal, Quebec