My absentee bid package, that I won at the MJD Avoca auction arrived today and I'm pleased, to say the least. I bid on a group that included a MF Buck Rogers drill I wanted, and the condition is better than shown on the auction site, with my price under my bid cap.
The other group was for a Norton Multistone and a batch of other stones. My winning bid was quite a bit less than a new basic Multistone and this one again looks better than the auction pictures. The stones are a fine india and a couple of crytalon. The crystalon will be replaced. But what really put icing on the cake were the group of other stones: 4 stones in wooden carved boxes. 3 are washita's without a doubt. The final is a Norton Behr wooden case (factory made) with metal turning insert. One side is a soft arkansas and the other is a hard black arkansas. Both stones show little use. Also, I got nearly two dozen loose stones, are various types, both natural and manmade. All are oilstones. With this haul, I may quit buying stones for a bit. To get through playing with each of these will take me until next year~