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<p>[QUOTE="42Skeezix, post: 57718, member: 40"]For awhile my "back wall" neighbor at May's Mkt. in Brimfield was an actual next door Neighbor Of Rockwell Kent. He said when Kent died they had a MASSIVE estate auction. Everyone was going nuts over ANYTHING he might have painted/printed, sat on or whatever. He wasn't bidding on a thing. Finally the auctioneer holds up a box and sez it's a box of R. Kent address labels without pulling any from the box. The bidding stops at 10 bucks so my friend, wanting just some minor memento of his cherished neighbor throws out a bid...and wins. He gets the box and looks inside. They're not address labels. They're bookplates with a great little farm vignette, each marked "This book belongs to Rockwell Kent" or thereabout, obviously printed by Kent himself. My friend said the box was completely full with around a thousand plates. First he sold some for 3 bucks a throw. Uped the price to 10 bucks and they sold just as fast. Tried 20 with no slowin'. I bought 10 for a Hundred and a quarter (Dealer discount<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/cool.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" />) and promptly lost them on the ride home<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" />. I was gonna get more in the spring but never saw my neighbor again<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>OOOhhhhhhh they were sweeeet little things. I love Kent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="42Skeezix, post: 57718, member: 40"]For awhile my "back wall" neighbor at May's Mkt. in Brimfield was an actual next door Neighbor Of Rockwell Kent. He said when Kent died they had a MASSIVE estate auction. Everyone was going nuts over ANYTHING he might have painted/printed, sat on or whatever. He wasn't bidding on a thing. Finally the auctioneer holds up a box and sez it's a box of R. Kent address labels without pulling any from the box. The bidding stops at 10 bucks so my friend, wanting just some minor memento of his cherished neighbor throws out a bid...and wins. He gets the box and looks inside. They're not address labels. They're bookplates with a great little farm vignette, each marked "This book belongs to Rockwell Kent" or thereabout, obviously printed by Kent himself. My friend said the box was completely full with around a thousand plates. First he sold some for 3 bucks a throw. Uped the price to 10 bucks and they sold just as fast. Tried 20 with no slowin'. I bought 10 for a Hundred and a quarter (Dealer discount:cool:) and promptly lost them on the ride home:(. I was gonna get more in the spring but never saw my neighbor again:(:(. OOOhhhhhhh they were sweeeet little things. I love Kent.[/QUOTE]
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