Day Four, Pack Up, Wrap Up and a good nights sleep. riend

[Sorry for the delay in updates. I switched from the hotel I was in (Comfort Inn, where I had Comedy Central and free wireless) to the Westin (a "nicer" hotel...without Com. Cent. and non-free wireless). I just haven't had time since the last update. In brief: 7 hours of show, move out not finished until 11pm or so and Tuesday spent running amok in DC.]

Day four started out

 *painfully* slowly.

 Traffic did pickup as the day went on. I had a few more friends/clients stop by and I did manage to sell a few things. It was, however, a *very* long

 day. I did manage to buy

 an interesting item, an FBI memo to banks listing every serial number from the Lindberg ransom for "banks to compare against currency on hand". 

The best part of the day is that Suzanne arrived around 2pm or so. She caught up with dealer/friends and looked about as some of the freakishly cool things kicking about the fair.

Of particular note was an absolutely remarkable carved tusk (mastodon?!?). The detail (and overall size) was just stunning. I've included some images of the details (they blow up if you click on them).

The show closed at 6pm. We were packed up by about 9pm...but we were not able to get the van in the hall until about 1030 and did not get to the hotel until about 1130 or so. Mind you, we had thought things were going to go a bit quicker...so we had not eaten. Urgh. It was a *very* long night.

Overall, numerous annoying bits notwithstanding, it was a good show and we are very pleased we did it and plan on doing it again next year. Credit were it is due, the promoters are better than most at getting people in the door...usually serious collectors...woohoo. The logistics of a show of this scale is really amazing. Tuesday will be our "bang around DC" day...very exciting.