I sent a very
polite email to the appropriate contact at Christies. I cc'd Dag Spicer (a curator at
the CHM) and Sellam. I explained the going rates for an Apple 1 like this, and I inquired
how they priced it so high.
You have no clue about the people you are dealing with.
Real money here, not
dot.com money. Christies and Sothebys are different universes.
PS - I forgot that Will is the 19th son of an English lord, and that he
lives on a manor estate, so clearly HE knows better than the rest of us.