I remember the Sohochler watermelon saga, just not how to spell it.
Bakers Creek offered them for sale a year or so after I wrote them asking if they had any left from years before, when they were said to have offered it. I guess they got some more in from someone! I bought 20 seeds even though I know that watere4lons could never ripen in our cool summers.
The Russian seed bank (Vasilov Institute?) never came through.