On Apr 26, 8:09*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> 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.

I think it's a decent price for it. It's antique; it's silver; those
silver tea strainers have LOTS of collectors who vie for the best
pieces. I collected them for a while, but lost interest and gave them
over to an auctioneer.

N.