Private Collectors - was [CR]Re: JAPANESE COLLECTOR

(Example: Framebuilders:Alex Singer)

From: <RaleighPro531@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 14:43:27 EST
Subject: Private Collectors - was [CR]Re: JAPANESE COLLECTOR
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 2/23/2003 1:34:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, kendenny66@yahoo.com writes:


> To put in greater perspective, Mr. Amaki is not even considered on the top
> teir of Japanese collectors. The vast majority of them are very private, as
> are many collectors in the US (I can think of at least a dozen top
> collectors who do not participate in Ebay, CR, the popular shows that we
> know of (Lars, CdC, Velo Rendezvous).
> They don't know what they're missing :)

Ken, So how are these folks finding their bikes and parts? Secret society? Friends in the business? I turn up mostly junk! I must be looking in the wrong places.

Pete Geurds
Douglassville, PA