Green LED HP 45 revisited

[Martin Pinckney]

Ended much less than I would have guessed, at $1275.

[Mark Hardman]

I hope someone captures the Seller's story and images and posts them to the Memories or Artcles forums. It would be a shame to lose this small gem of history.

[Michael de Estrada]

There was only one serious bidder. It takes at least two to get the price up. For all we know, the winning bidder offered much more. Last year there was a very clean an complete HP 81 up for auction on TAS. They are very rare and it's one of the very few vintage calcs missing in my collection. Still, I am not willing to pay a lot for a business model and already own an HP 46, so my bid was modest, as were all the competing bids. Late in the auction with only seconds to go a bid came in from Europe, and it sold for a little over $300. No doubt the actual bid was much higher, but we'll never know. OTOH, the next time a complete non-fake HP 35 Red Dot shows up on TAS, I think we'll see a lot higher price, becasue there are more people willing to pay for such an item.

[Martin Pinckney]

I did email Dave Hicks about the auction, and would not be surprised if other forum members did the same.

I also publicly (via the forum) asked the seller to send pictures to the museum.

No reply in either case, though.

[Matthias Wehrli]

Sorry, didn't get a mail ;)
Please let's wait untill the unit has reached it's new owner.

[Ignazio Cara (Italy)]

I know the name of the winning bidder! He's an european collector, perhaps the bigger. Stop.

Ignazio

[Martin Pinckney]

Quote:

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...it's new owner.

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You, I assume?

[Namir]

Congratulation Matthias. Gives me a reason to visit you next time I am in your country!

:-)

Namir

[Matthias Wehrli]

You're welcome

[Matthias Wehrli]

Surprised?

[Matthias Wehrli]

I call it like Homer Simpson: "I'm not BIG, I'm just a bit to small for my weight"

[Marcus von Cube, Germany]

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Matthias!

You'll tell us more about your new gem as soon as it has arrived, wont you?

Marcus