Janet Baraclough wrote:
>
> The makers Aspreys are a very famous English company, and old pieces
> made by them are very much "investment collector" items here. Toast is
> very much part of Brit breakfast and even quite ordinary old
> silverplate toastracks sell for more than your top offer here in the UK,
> so I think a special old piece like that, by Aspreys, is going to fetch
> far, far more.

I sure hope so. I'll feel so much better about
not winning it. On the other hand, I've seen items
which I thought would go for lots of money which
went for much less than I anticipated. Fortunately,
that hasn't happened very often, and never on anything
really important.