I did really well wit some blanks at auction last fall. I could tell from looking at them that they were good quality thin shell and after I purchased them a board member contacted me giving me the back story on them. Turns out all the wood was at least 20 years dry and the wood came from an estate. The kind member here mentioned to me that one unmarked blank was Tessier, he knew because he was the original purchaser and traded it to the former owner. I found one more Tessier blank in the batch as well. I sold off three blanks and ended up with four really nice blanks in that batch that I kept for myself.
