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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 94194, member: 55&quot;]Thanks!</p><p>I didn&#039;t see who got the Reid drawing, and am not sure if it was a phone bidder or in-house.</p><p>There were four largish estates with items in the auction; one was a retired ferry captain, one the estate of RCMP Constable Robert Montgomery, and I didn&#039;t hear details of the other two.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is hard to explain the affinity I have for the Walkus family items.</p><p>Logic would say that they are very good, much like Willie Seaweed&#039;s work; and that Seaweed is famous in part because Bill Holm wrote a book on him, and isn&#039;t it a pity that nobody has written a book about George Walkus and his brothers, and sad that we are now so many generations removed that the ability to ferret out details of their lives is fading fast.&nbsp; We have two photos of George Walkus, neither very clear; and two or three of his son Charlie George Walkus; and the living grandchildren and great-grandchildren don&#039;t know a lot about them.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; So that is what logic says...but when I see and hold one of these, or visit them in the museums, I get all teary-eyed.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Some other NW Coast work does that to me too.</p><p>I saw a Davidson panel of Raven, hanging on a museum wall, and the feeling that the rest of the creature was behind the wall, coming toward us from the Spirit World, was so strong that I could not remain standing.&nbsp;&nbsp; My wife had to come retrieve me.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; There is more to it than the objects themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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