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Title: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Pilgrim on July 11, 2010, 08:01:26 PM
I just learned that the Roy Rogers museum (in Branson MO,, having moved from CA about 8 years ago) has closed and most of the items in it are being auctioned this coming week on the 14th and 15th.

What a sad event!!!!

There's one item (aside from acoustic guitars) that I thought someone here might be interested in:

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5338165&sid=8e8a7ef6-cf18-4943-90da-aada65a099b1

It's listed as: GIBSON INCORPORATED; A GUITAR AMPLIFIER, GA-SUPER 400, KALAMAZOO, MI., CIRCA 1960-1964, Bearing the logo Gibson 400.

This may belong in guitars, but the appeal for us folks with grey hair is suffficient that I thought I'd post it here.

Check the auction at Christie's website....

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/searchresults.aspx?entry=roy+rogers&action=search&searchtype=u&searchFrom=header#entry=roy+rogers&action=refine&searchtype=u&searchFrom=header&sid=5e9d55ec-25bc-4e85-b2f5-326eefb9d0cd
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Dave W on July 11, 2010, 08:46:50 PM
I saw the Yahoo news story on this. It brought back a lot of memories. Always liked Roy and Dale. If I had the money to bid on anything, it would be Nellybelle (http://www.film.queensu.ca/cj3b/Siblings/Nellybelle.html), Pat Brady's Jeep.
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: TBird1958 on July 11, 2010, 09:06:09 PM


 Anything stuffed and mounted?  ;)













You knew I couldn't leave that alone.  :gay:
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Dave W on July 11, 2010, 09:10:14 PM

 Anything stuffed and mounted?  ;)













You knew I couldn't leave that alone.  :gay:

Yes! Trigger, Bullet and Buttermilk.

Yahoo story (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100710/ap_on_en_mo/us_roy_rogers_auction)

Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Pilgrim on July 11, 2010, 09:12:30 PM
Yes! Trigger, Bullet and Buttermilk.

True!  The auction descriptions include a history of each animal.  Trigger lived to one day less than 31, and Buttermilk made it to 31. I just finished surfing all 12 pages of listings and even noted a few items to follow.  Christie's estimate for the sale of Trigger was $100,000 - $200,000. 
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Barklessdog on July 12, 2010, 04:32:15 AM
They would be a great addition to any museum
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Highlander on July 12, 2010, 01:17:53 PM
This (culturally) just beggars belief... :sad:
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: uwe on July 12, 2010, 01:37:56 PM
"Anything stuffed and mounted?"

Aren't the instructions garbled and backwards here? Shouldn't it be mounted first and then stuffed?

I never understood Status Quo either:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxRZSMn3kKU
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: TBird1958 on July 12, 2010, 03:35:20 PM
"Anything stuffed and mounted?"

Aren't the instructions garbled and backwards here? Shouldn't it be mounted first and then stuffed?

I never understood Status Quo either:

 So......you do have some understanding of "the love that dare not speak it's name"  ;)




This (culturally) just buggars belief... :sad:


Had to fix this for ya Kenny.


Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Highlander on July 14, 2010, 05:45:19 AM
Just don't go messing with my Dusselforf... ;)

Now that reminds me of the old joke... I'll cut it to the punch...

4 prisoners sitting round a table, boasting of their crimes... armed robbery, GBH, ABH, murder, rape... the list went on...
They all looked at the one guy on the end of the table who had just kept on quietly eating his lunch...
"So, what are you in for...?"
"Buggery..."
Everyone spluttered and rolled off all sorts of comments on their disgust, ending with "You sicko, just how low can someone go..."
To which he chirped up with... "Ooh, about a daschund..."
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Bargeon on July 14, 2010, 10:57:03 AM
Any autographed vintage hamburger wrappers?
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: gweimer on July 14, 2010, 11:42:34 AM
I don't know about anywhere else in the country, but there's still a Roy Rogers hamburger stand running just outside Cincinnati.
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Dave W on July 14, 2010, 12:51:07 PM
I don't know about anywhere else in the country, but there's still a Roy Rogers hamburger stand running just outside Cincinnati.

Right next door to the Gabby Hayes Dental Clinic?  ;)

The restaurant chain is still in business, mostly east of Ohio.
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Pilgrim on July 21, 2010, 09:46:47 AM
Well, shoot.  I was kind of hoping to pick up some little thing, but all of the items sold well above the predictions.  At least the family made some money on the auction.
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: nofi on July 21, 2010, 10:15:55 AM
did dale get stuffed?
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Dave W on July 21, 2010, 01:47:21 PM
did dale get stuffed?

Funny you should mention that. About 25 years ago I saw Roy and Dale on Carson and they mentioned Trigger and Bullet being stuffed and mounted. Dale said something like if Roy went first she was thinking about having him stuffed.
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Pilgrim on July 22, 2010, 08:30:18 AM
did dale get stuffed?

History does not record the answer, but since Roy and Dale had kids, a presumption exists.
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Highlander on July 22, 2010, 10:53:51 AM
Could have been a grudge baby... (someone had it in for him...!) :o
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Dave W on July 22, 2010, 04:31:28 PM
Seriously, Roy and Dale's kids were adopted and they did lots of charitable work in this area. IIRC they had one child who died young, may have been mongoloid.
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Pilgrim on July 22, 2010, 06:57:45 PM
Seriously, Roy and Dale's kids were adopted and they did lots of charitable work in this area. IIRC they had one child who died young, may have been mongoloid.

I forgot that! They were very nice folks according to what I heard.
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: uwe on July 23, 2010, 03:37:27 AM
Seriously, Roy and Dale's kids were adopted and they did lots of charitable work in this area. IIRC they had one child who died young, may have been mongoloid a trisomy 21 child.

PC Police Advice: No one, absolutely no one says "mongoloid" anymore, Dave.  :o  You're not even allowed to say "Down Syndrome" anymore, Newspeak is "Trisomy 21".
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Dave W on July 23, 2010, 07:46:05 AM
PC Police Advice: No one, absolutely no one says "mongoloid" anymore, Dave.  :o  You're not even allowed to say "Down Syndrome" anymore, Newspeak is "Trisomy 21".

Somebody needs to tell Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmf7r_37eA
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: drbassman on July 23, 2010, 09:55:03 AM
Crap!!!! $266,000 for Trigger!!!!!!!  :P  He didn't even run in a Triple Crown race for cryin' out loud!
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: gweimer on July 23, 2010, 12:11:05 PM
I forgot that! They were very nice folks according to what I heard.

I saw Dale Evans at a Jesus Rally in Chicago in the early '70s (yes, that's what we called them).  She was pretty cool, and yes, they were playing "Happy Trails" as she came to the stage at the Arie Crown.
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Pilgrim on July 23, 2010, 05:24:58 PM
Crap!!!! $266,000 for Trigger!!!!!!!  :P  He didn't even run in a Triple Crown race for cryin' out loud!

No - he was MUCH more famous than that!!!
Title: Re: Roy Rogers Museum auction this week
Post by: Dave W on July 23, 2010, 08:43:00 PM
Nellybelle sold for $116,500. That much for a Jeep that was memorable for always breaking down.  ???

On the plus side, all this means that Roy, Dale and company still mean a lot to some people.