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Builder discovers "priceless" Tolkien postcard
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| Tue Jul 8, 10:29 AM ET
| Mike Collett-White
Posted on 07/09/2008 7:27:11 AM PDT by martin_fierro
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To: martin_fierro
Builder discovers "priceless" Tolkien postcard "To tie in both the fireplace and the postcard, we are talking about a price of around $500,000 for the combined pair..."
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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posted on
07/09/2008 2:06:21 PM PDT
by
LexBaird
(Behold, thou hast drinken of the Aide of Kool, and are lost unto Men.)
To: SuziQ
Particularly if parts of a house come from a famous author. Some people take pride in owning something that belonged to a famous personage.
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posted on
07/09/2008 2:13:48 PM PDT
by
Oyarsa
To: SuziQ
$250,000 for a postcard, not even written by the famous man in question? Puh-lease. The man is (hopefully) deluding himself.
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posted on
07/09/2008 2:17:37 PM PDT
by
LongElegantLegs
(We are all humans, and humans poo.)
To: martin_fierro
Thanks for the ping! I love these threads.
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posted on
07/09/2008 3:03:46 PM PDT
by
SkyPilot
("I wasn't in church during the time when the statements were made.")
To: ecurbh
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posted on
07/09/2008 3:04:06 PM PDT
by
SkyPilot
("I wasn't in church during the time when the statements were made.")
To: martin_fierro
Hmm...for something he thinks is “priceless” the feller sure seems to have had no hesitation in putting a hefty price on it. But I can go him one better - I have in my possession a postcard written to William Shakespeare by an adoring fan named Drill or somebody that I’d be happy to let go for a mere quarter-million buckadingdongs...just as soon as the ink dries...
To: LongElegantLegs
Oh, I wasn’t talking about the postcard bringing much in the way of money. I was talking about preserving some of those architectural features in the house!
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posted on
07/09/2008 6:06:16 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: Charles Henrickson
For a second, I thought that was the “P” word in the headline.
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posted on
07/09/2008 6:08:41 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(Gollum is alive and well and married to Mary Matalin.)
To: martin_fierro
During this time period Tolkien was beginning to cash in on his celebrity - as well he should.
I remember seeing many posters and artworks with his image and images from his book - The Hobbit - popping up in the 'Head shops' of the era.
I had a rather large poster of him sitting on some very gnarly tree roots. Quite stunning actually. Wish I still had it...but that was long ago and far away...in a land that time has passed by....(cur Hobbit music)...
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posted on
07/09/2008 6:46:57 PM PDT
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
To: Tainan
Must have been the same era when I was seeing “Frodo lives!” scrawled in subways and buses. My college had a whole “Middle Earth” complex of dorms.
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posted on
10/08/2008 5:08:53 PM PDT
by
Melian
To: Melian
I...am Frodo!
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posted on
10/08/2008 6:05:04 PM PDT
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
To: Tainan
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posted on
10/08/2008 6:16:06 PM PDT
by
Melian
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