congrats Andy on the great score! I too had a lengthy search for my 245 Mira 25th that finally ended last April (third time's the charm, I guess), and I've been very happy with mine this past year... I agree with you; these guitars are special, and I love those cases... I'm not giving up my other Mira though (you can't make me! besides, I feel as NASA does; redundancy is GOOD)
Here's a bad phone pic of mine...