Consolation
Unless it's was one of kind handcrafted piece, probabilities are in your favor it will again light the sparkles in your eyes.
I have lost many a battles thinking I'll never have the same opportunity. Later, discovering opportunities are plentiful. Least we not forget, much of MCM was mass produced...a fact I sometimes lose sight of or get irritated by. Desire is powerful, reasoning...empowering.
Reason grasshopper....Reason (sound of gongs resonates in the background)
*repeat after me*
*repeat after me*
*There'll be another along soon..and probably cheaper *
*There'll be another along soon..and probably cheaper *
*There'll be another along soon..and probably cheaper *
*There'll be another along soon..and probably cheaper *
*There'll be another along soon..and probably cheaper *
😉
From the
image you posted i would guess that a reasonable-sized print of that image could be made on your home printer. Okay, it wouldn't be full size -- but the design is the important thing, and that you have. Why pine for a real Picasso, when the world is full of excellent reproductions of so much of his work ?
The design, the idea, the work is what we honor and value -- not the paper it's printed on. . .
In fact, without too much trouble you could reproduce the design, at any scale you like, by making a collage of the disc image, and hand-copying the typography, on a piece of appropriate stock. It would be fun, it would be instructive, and it would really be "yours." For a lot less than the cost of the poster, you could even make a slide of your download of the image, project it on your wall at night with an old slide projector, and have a dramatic art highlight in your room.
Good advice
It would be easy to recreate. There is something appealing about owning a tangible thing from 1957 advertising an exhibit about design, but essentially what I like is the design, itself, and that I can either recreate or I may be able to find a print.
Thanks everyone for talking me down. I'll live to bid another day.
general advice
Someone said to bid your maximum. That means the price you're willing to pay, not the price you hope to pay. If you lost and you have regrets, you should have bid higher!
Never, ever bid until the last ten seconds. Use a snipe program if you can't be at your computer when the thing ends. (I have used auctionstealer.com for years with great results.)
The reasoning behind bidding at the last second is so that no one else has a chance to outbid you after seeing your bid entered. Sure, others will have proxy bids entered and many people use snipe programs, and some of these people might have already put in higher bids than you plan to enter. That's ok, as long as you bid what you're willing to pay. The people you want to sneak past are those who see an early bid and get all proprietary about the item and start bidding repeatedly until they beat your amount. If you're stupid, you come back and do the same to them. We sellers love it, though---you are driving the price up for us!
I like snipe bids just as much as bidding wars, though. It's all part of the game.
And yeah, there'll be another one of those along eventually. Probably something better, too, for less money. Happens to me all the time.
I lose all of the time, but I win enough to make it worthwhile
On eBay, I bid on lots of stuff I either don't win, or the bidding has gotten too high and I stop bidding and therefore lose.
For the most part, it works out to my advantage because I learn so much about what's out there and what things are going for.
Take clocks. I bid on and lose a bunch of Umanoff (sorry bout misspelling) later heavy wood clocks and i won this one (obviously much earlier and much rarer......)
This one's gonna need some work, but I don't have it in my database....
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