In a message dated 4/16/2007 10:20:20 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jeffryy at prevea.com writes: I was at the auction. There was a lot of "auction fever" going on. There were a few bidding wars. Thanks for report Jeff. It's the only posted on any of the newsgroups so far. How many folks would you say were there? REcognize any other bidders? It would be fun to hear about this one as it had both machines and Nipper material. Thanks for sharing. It's great to get good deals at auctions like this but with such wide advertising there's always competition. Often it's "he who has the most toys wins" which - of course ends up as a auction of the estate of the "guy" (USUALLY, but not always) with the most toys - when his family only wants the money - and the room all this stuff took up back. <g> Steve ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.