That sounds like a good plan.
Isn't there some joke about not being able to beat your fish? No, it's your meat you are not supposed to beat.........
A cute dog never harmed sales. Unless you have a good restorer on tap, reasonably cheap, I'd leave it. And I'd stick it in a decent real auction.
Anything absurd can be made to sound sensible till you think about it. Yesterday I saw on a menu 'Hand Battered Cod'
Messi, after a day or so I feel pressure to supply any answer however nonsensical.
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