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Message:: [QUOTE="42Skeezix, post: 22600, member: 40"]Hope y'all don't mind. That reminded me of another time. Not an estate sale but an estate purchase. We had this estate awhile back. Great stuff, a little at a time, over the course of a couple of weeks or so. We could buy pretty much anything but the matron of the family would occasionally want to approve of the stuff before we could drag it off. Well, we had found a trove of red line Hotwheels, the FIRST ISSUE type. EARLY stuff. And again in MINT condition. Probably 40-50 or so. We carefully wrapped each one in paper towels and bagged em. a nearly full grocery bag. On this day grandma was curious about what we were carting off. The Chad Valley dolls? (four of 'em, including a perfect complete piper boy, in the box.) Fine, have 'em. The 1826 sampler? Take it..... "What's in that bag?""Hotwheels.""Hot wheels? What are they?""Toy cars. Like Match Box cars.""Toy cars? My grandson likes toy cars. They can't be worth too much. I think I'd like to keep those for my grandson.""......but.......but........""No, my grandson will like these"That was that.Sic transit gloria mundi. We got fabulous stuff from that estate, from the afore mentioned sampler to gold watches and jewelry, but my memory is always drawn to that bag of EARLY Hotwheels that got away.[/QUOTE]