Said Abd El Gawad

The first lot I won at the LOST auction was #167, Jin's handcuffs. Prior to the auction I prepared a spreadsheet to help guide my bidding. Basically, I gave each item a "desirability" grade and also noted down the number of advance bids it had garnered. My strategy was to target items which had both high desirability and a relatively small number of advance bids. I gave this lot a B+ and noted that it had only 3 advance bids, so it was on my bid list. First off we have the intact metal cuffs, which I'll label Cuff-M1. (It turns out that the collection consists of ten cuffs, so I needed to label them to keep track!) These are the cuffs with which Sawyer secured Jin to the Oceanic 815 wreckage following Jin's assault on Michael. There are no engravings on these cuffs other than a "Taiwan" label. Cuff R-1. These are "comfort" cuffs, made from a light rubber. The cuffs can be opened and closed by removing and inserting a metal pin. Here ar...