I understand completely. I used to routinely ship internationally, with poor results. I'm limiting my international sales to CCGTCC members. I usually put that disclaimer in my auctions, but I forgot this time. In any case, you're now permanently exempted from any restrictions on my auctions. It's always nice to welcome another collector to the club, and the Chip Board.

I read you're a Horseshoe collector. That, too, is one of my preferred collecting interests. I hope to next year start on a web site as a neverending project on the history of the Apache Hotel and all its casinos and annexations, which would include the Horseshoe, Eldorado, SS Rex, Apache Casino, The Mint, and the Boulder Club. That block has a rich and vivid history, although now it's degenerated into just another piece of plastic corporate America.