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Permalink Reply by DB on May 19, 2011 at 3:14pm

Bravo Bob, Bravo ~ the Peanut Gallery...  but it was important to point this out and have a civil conversation as we have had and not deginerate into the abyss that others, typically not here on this site, seem to have.

 

& besides; "And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules" Capt'n Barbossa.

 

and Mr. Bill you keep chiming in on these blogs  as regardless of your interest in Spock your opinion, whether some agree or not, is always appreciated my cannoli cuisine cousin.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by DB on May 20, 2011 at 6:24am

looks like the hammer price was $3553... with some of the top selling items....  over on the 2011 show I predicted $36K for Taylor's letters... Not a bad guess ~  Yonkers here we come.

 

Item #537 Motion Picture Relief Fund Auction Closed Final Bid: $49969 Document archive	Item #645 Elizabeth Taylor Auction Closed Final Bid: $39710 Collection of Love Letters	Item #637 Wizard of Oz: Judy Garland Auction Closed Final Bid: $21175 SP	Item #440 Marilyn Monroe Auction Closed Final Bid: $12650 SP
Item #447 Bela Lugosi Auction Closed Final Bid: $8784 SP	Item #600 Marx Brothers Auction Closed Final Bid: $8250 DS	Item #638 Wizard of Oz: Bert Lahr Auction Closed Final Bid: $7526 SP	Item #630 Walt Disney: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Auction Closed Final Bid: $7398 Signature and cels
Item #621 Walt Disney Auction Closed Final Bid: $7259 DS	Item #602 Marilyn Monroe Auction Closed Final Bid: $6134 DS	Item #619 Walt Disney Auction Closed Final Bid: $5999 TLS	Item #620 Walt Disney Auction Closed Final Bid: $5999 Social Security card
Item #444 Colin Clive Auction Closed Final Bid: $5849 SP	Item #631 Wizard of Oz Auction Closed Final Bid: $5576 Lobby card	Item #629 Walt Disney Auction Closed Final Bid: $5162 Unsigned photos

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Permalink Reply by Bill Panagopulos on May 20, 2011 at 12:41pm

What's your commission?

 

Where's the REST of the results? Oh...keep forgetting - R&R doesn't publish their results. But then again, everything in their sales sells. Always. Amazingly. Amazingly high.

 

Was the Motion Picture Relief Fund grouping reserved? Bet you $1,000.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on May 20, 2011 at 12:58pm

Some of the prices for vintage entertainment really surprise me. You'd really think the pool of interested buyers has been greatly dimished for some of the vintage figures. Elizabeth Taylor? Really? Does anyone under 70 collect her material?

 

:-)

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Permalink Reply by Bill White on May 20, 2011 at 1:51pm

RR certainly does publish their results. They're available as a downloadable PDF after every auction (currently not there as our web guy hasn't posted the link yet)...and everything is also viewable under the past auction results.

 

The Motion Picture Relief Fund item sold: http://www.rrauction.com/past_auction_item.cfm?ID=3232303

 

Can I now collect the $1000?

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Permalink Reply by Bill Panagopulos on May 20, 2011 at 4:59pm

Nolo contendre. Your last few auctions do indeed have their results posted. You have about a 95% sell-through rate. Very commendable, and I am jealous indeed. The entire industry is running at about 60%, at best. You have very understanding and generous consignors.

 

I swear before Allah/Jesus/Buddha I will hand deliver your thousand bucks, in a cherry-red Lamborghini registered in your name, and one for Booby L. too, if you can prove to me that every one of those kabillion "sold" lots were actually sold, and not "bought-in" - you know...passed, sold to the reserve, sold to the book, not really traded hands.

 

We stopped that misleading practice years ago. Hope you did too.

 

In my opinion, for an auctioneer to say that something sold for a certain amount when really it just was passed...or God forbid, to collaborate with a consignor and get them to agree for you to publicize that something sold for a huge figure, when really it just passed...just ain't right. It's kinda like leading people to believe they can buy a Lincoln signed document for a "minimum bid" of $500...oops.

But what do I know? I sell Nazis and fascists and Mengele diaries. Nothing that the people at R&R would want to soil their hands with.

No sour grapes. Glad you did so well with the Reagan.

Best of all? No need to pay consignors! They say the world's ending tomorrow! Catch Bobby's lounge act and have a bottle of Dom on me!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Bill Panagopulos on May 20, 2011 at 5:12pm

And you know what, Deeb? Keep your "Peanut Gallery" BS to yourself. That appellation refers to uneducated, amateurish big mouths - you know who.

It's a good thing this isn't a live chat site because with all the shilling you do, we'd never hear you - you'd be choking on something all the time! And I don't mean canolli.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Herman Darvick on May 20, 2011 at 5:22pm

The Peanut Gallery was the audience of children on "The Howdy Doody Show" which I watched every day at 5:30 PM after I finished my homework.

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Permalink Reply by Bill Panagopulos on May 20, 2011 at 5:48pm

Sorry, Herman. I meant children. On TV. In 1930.

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Permalink Reply by DB on May 21, 2011 at 12:02pm

Right u are Herman as Mr. Bill should stick to WW2 stuff as he obviously doesn't know Buffalo Bob & Howdie Doodie which ran in B&W from '47 - 55 and in Color from 55 ~ 60,,, from captain kangaroo.   And for Mr. Bill's edification it's analagous to Clarabelle but at least he didn't speak which is something Pogo and all his friends wherever they are should learn.

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Permalink Reply by Herman Darvick on May 21, 2011 at 3:20pm

Clarabelle spoke in the last scene of the final episode. It's been over 50 years, but it is a memory I will never forget. The camera zoomed in on his face and Clarabelle, looking right into the camera, sadly said, "Goodbye, kids..."

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Permalink Reply by DB on May 21, 2011 at 3:44pm

Herman, that's right... I forgot that last line...  Only to find years later it was Captain Kangaroo. 

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