Pat found a really nice McLaughlin sleigh tag on a rotten piece of wood laying in the woods, which obviously had been part of a sleigh at one time. She hung onto it for a year then one evening she wondered what it would sell for on ebay. So she listed it without wanting to sell the tag with a $250.00 reserve.
Within hours of the auction being posted some guy comes along and bids this thing up $5.00 a pop until he reaches the reserve the tag sat there at this price until the end when another guy snipped the tag.
You just never know with an auction how its going to end., but then I've been selling since June of 98 and have plenty of weird and interesting ebay endings - stories.
Here;s a similar tag to the McLaughlin.
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