I never thought of Wind Point as an ugly duckling, either. In fact, I can't figure out why this piece doesn't move faster on it's own merit (seems this was a chatroom topic last week or so).

I like the idea of the time-limited retirement also. The 10,000 edition size combined with time-limited retirement gives Y&A some flexibility to let the winners run while cutting losses. Seems a good combination, imho.

Regarding "last call," I'm not so sure I like that. I think it will increase the lag time between retirement and appreciation, for those concerned with such things. I could be completely wrong; such a "last call" might put a piece on a collector's radar screen that wouldn't be there otherwise, and thereby accelerate dissemination into the hands of collectors. In any case, "last call" gives HL some additional press release material. More frequent press releases are a good thing. There's no such thing as bad publicity, is there?

Sitting comfortably on the fence,

-Art