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04-16-2007, 06:28 PM
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Orchid Auction
http://www.geocities.com/vicorchids/may_auction.pdf
Scroll past all the no name Phals'.......apparently one of the best orchid collections you'll ever see be auctioned off.
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04-16-2007, 06:59 PM
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Wow! That's an awesome list!!!
Are you going to participate? I could pick 50 without even thinking about it...if I lived in Australia
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04-16-2007, 08:11 PM
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WOW! That's some list!
I keep wondering though...
Is this what happens to us orchid addicts when we die? Our collections get auctioned off to people? Seems kinda sad!
I better go make a will lol.
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04-16-2007, 08:17 PM
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Wow, thats a big list. But they seem lacking in the Catt department. But I saw Dyakia hendersonianum.
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04-17-2007, 03:00 AM
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Amazing list! More than thousand orchids should go! I hope, nobody has died.
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04-17-2007, 04:43 AM
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Ah.........I think they might have died but I'm not 100% sure on that one. Either that or they're too frail to look after them.
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04-17-2007, 09:35 AM
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Over the 14 years I've been in business, I have acquired several collections from individuals. The reasons for the sell-offs vary: - Moving to Arizona; grows mostly phrags.
- Divorced and both moving to small apartments.
- Retired and relocating the residence to an RV.
- Retired and relocating the residence to a yacht. (Jealousy, anyone?)
- Collection too much for old person to care for.
- Yep, death.
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04-17-2007, 10:25 AM
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I guess I won't move, if I have to sell my beloved plants. And I don't exchange them for the residence on yacht either.
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