Boston.com reports
A shotgun that once belonged to Western sharpshooter and entertainer Annie Oakley sold for more than $143,000 at an auction in Dallas on Sunday.The trove of about 100 of the icon’s items headlining Heritage Auctions’ “Legends of the Wild West’’ event brought in nearly $520,000, according to the auction house.The items included several guns, her Stetson hat, photographs and letters. Oakley’s great-grandnieces put up the items and had inherited them from their mother, who died in 2009.
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Is it healthy and normal to elevate historical Stetson hats to these heights?
ReplyDeleteIs it healthy and normal to spend tens of millions, even hundreds of millions, of dollars on a Picasso painting?
ReplyDeleteMy answer to all of them: Yes. Whatever the market price is, that's what it should be. I just hope that the artifacts are put on display.