Sir Kill Alot wrote in MicroCosmos:How far did you eventually get with this proposal?

They weren't interested.

The seller indicates it was acquired as part of a huge Dungeons & Dragons collection and states that "The original owner worked at the company that made D&D stuff".  Since this copy belonged to Keith Francis Strohm, it's likely this came from his collection, at least originally.

I purchased quite a few items off of Keith in the mid-2000's through Sue Cook.  She was helping him sell off items from his collection.  I did not know if this item was sold at that time, since it wasn't discussed.

ExTSR wrote in MicroCosmos:fwiw, whoever stole and/or sold that (from WotC files) had no right to do so.

This is an interesting point. Does the current owner have a right to sell this? ExTsr's quote here is quite damning but perhaps the seller has a perfect right to sell it. eBay take a dim view on listing stolen items of course but this item may be legally owned.
Interesting stuff in any case

gyg wrote in MicroCosmos:This is an interesting point. Does the current owner have a right to sell this? ExTsr's quote here is quite damning but perhaps the seller has a perfect right to sell it. eBay take a dim view on listing stolen items of course but this item may be legally owned.
Interesting stuff in any case

Given the year of production i would not worry too much... This could be a crisp case of usucapion.