Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
> "Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I was thinking about bidding on this, but it's so small
>> and not particularly fine or attractive. When it was
>> at $9.99, I thought about it. When it passed $30,
>> I knew I wasn't going to bid. The silver has cutouts,
>> but it's not engraved or anything.
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=310042750319
>>
>> $128.50? I don't understand that at all.
>
> Evidently others fell differently. 120 years old, sterling, ebony
> handle, good condition. Did you really thing $9.99 would grab it?
>
You never know on eBay. Depending on what the minimum bid was set to, if
the seller was only offered $9.99 they may well have had to sell it for
that.

Jill