You are right sir, the auction was going to be made by a german auctionneer but has been canceled.
Maybe for several reasons, importation of a such large collection from USA is submitted to custom dues, must be around 20 % of the declared value so it makes a huge amount to pay.
I also heard about that collection, from two well known european train sellers, one in France and the other one in Germany that, as this collection is so large and impressive that the market prices for high grade pieces could tend to go too much low in regard to comon prices here. Too many pieces at the same time for not so many collectors who can afford this kind of high quality pieces.
But as you say in USA, that's just my two cents....
Very best,
Daniel
FRANCE
