Five months after the Propstore catalogue went live, Vanderheyden places the winning bid on Lot — the Amek mixing console that Prince used to track demos for Dirty Mind at his North-Arm-of-Lake-Minnetonka home studio in 1980. Estimate had been $37,500–$75,000; final price kept private. The desk doesn’t physically reach Belgium for another eight months while the Prince Estate completes its review of the sale.
Vanderheyden first asked Dr. Fink to sell him the console in 2003, while staying at Fink’s house during the Paisley Park sessions. The answer that year was no.