Posted on 06/06/2019 9:42:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was sold online for more than $1.4 million on Wednesday after it was removed from a Dallas park nearly two years ago over concerns the monument was racist.
The bronze statue drew a top offer of $1,435,000 from a bidder identified only as "LawDude," according to the Lone Star Auctioneers Inc. website. The second highest bidder, "MustangJerry," maxed out at $1,432,500 after placing 41 bids since the statue first went up for auction with a starting price of $450,000 on May 26.
The Dallas City Council last month voted 12-3 to declare the 1935 sculpture by Alexander Phimister Proctor as "surplus property" and sold to the highest bidder.
The artwork features Lee and a young Confederate soldier on horseback. …
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Lee’s statue earned more than any of the snowflakes protesting will ever in their lives.....times 10
bfl
To even bid they required you submit a substantial bond.
Hopefully the new owner will put it in a place where it can be seen and enjoyed.
Hopefully the new owner will place it on a high, protected palisade overlooking the city losers who removed and sold it. LIBs are lunatics.
The idiots at the Dallas City Council stipulated in the sales documents that the statue would not be displayed publicly. I think a wealthy lawyer purchased it. His response was probably “KMA!”
The idiots at the Dallas City Council stipulated in the sales documents that the statue would not be displayed publicly. I think a wealthy lawyer purchased it. His response was probably “KMA!”
I hope you’re right about the “KMA”......that’s what we usually say after we “bless your heart”......;)
Where I come from “Bless Your Heart” means, “perform an anatomically impossible function.”
“The idiots at the Dallas City Council stipulated in the sales documents that the statue would not be displayed publicly. I think a wealthy lawyer purchased it. His response was probably “KMA!””
If I was the buyer I would form and LLC, sell the statue to it, and have the LLC display the statue. Ef the leftists.
So now they plan to sell statues, and make a profit off of what they consider evil depictions????
In our new world, the littlest squeaking wheel must be oiled to try and please all.
P.S. 15 people out of how many were made to decide to remove it? What is the Population of the state of Texas? Something very wrong about this. I have no connection with the CW, I only view it as a period of the Nation’s History. Are we to redo Gettysburg and have the Union Statues facing empty space? Get over it, its in the past whether it was good or bad. Get a life and don’t dwell on soured history that no longer affects us. There will always be heroes and villains depending on which side was yours.
Put up a small sign with a tin cup.
"Private Exibition.
Paid Admission Only, 1 cent. Thank you."
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Where I come from “Bless Your Heart” means, “perform an anatomically impossible function.”
I know dat’s right......that’s what I mean....heehee
I hope they put it in Fort Worth. Dallas is the most worthless city. Even the Cowboys won’t play in Dallas!
Dallas has been Austinized.
Is the money going back to the Daughters of the Confederacy?
I’ve always liked statuary like that. The statue of Andrew Jackson in Jackson Square, New Orleans is my favorite. All we have around here are statues to commies like lenin.
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