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Polynesian paddle fetches nearly $340,000
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| April 17, 2010
Posted on 04/17/2010 5:10:34 PM PDT by JoeProBono
ISLE OF WIGHT, England - A 100-year-old wooden paddle used in Polynesian dance ceremonies before becoming a household ornament fetched nearly $340,000 at a British auction.
Bidders in London and Brussels quickly upped the price on the paddle after bidding started at just $4,629, The Times of London reported.
The ceremonial paddle, known as a rapa, originated on Easter Island in the southeastern Pacific, where performers used the paddles to accentuate movements in dances and ceremonies.
Tim Smith of Isle of Wight auctioneers Island Auction Rooms in Shanklin set a guide price of $15,341.
"When the money started going up, there was a real buzz in the auction room," Warren Riches, who led the sale, said.
The paddle's owners, who live on the Isle of Wight, didn't know how much the paddle had sold for.
"Tim went round to see them with a bottle of champagne and told them to sit down," Riches said. "He asked them what they thought it would fetch in their wildest dreams."
Maybe, they said, Smith's guide price, $15,341.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: akuaku; archaeoastronomy; easterisland; ecuador; godsgravesglyphs; jpb; longears; megaliths; moai; rapanui; rongorongo; thorheyerdahl
To: JoeProBono
When the money started going up, there was a real buzz in the auction room," Warren Riches, who led the sale, said. NOTE TO SELF: If I ever become an auctioneer, change my last name to "Riches." LOL.
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04/17/2010 5:14:42 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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04/17/2010 5:15:49 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
"Yeah, Baby"....".....the right way for a smacked bottom and I don't care who knows it." ...
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04/17/2010 5:17:00 PM PDT
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digger48
To: JoeProBono
I wonder how much they would get for this one ....
... it also has a legacy.
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04/17/2010 5:18:13 PM PDT
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NYer
("Where Peter is, there is the Church." - St. Ambrose of Milan)
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04/17/2010 5:18:46 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
Purchaser -—Guinevere Turner, maybe?
parsy, who cheekily says “Oh, this allusion is deep....”
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04/17/2010 5:20:18 PM PDT
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parsifal
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04/17/2010 5:22:32 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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04/17/2010 5:23:58 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
I was once at a Saturday morning auction at the old Lubin Galleries on 25th Street in NYC. They were selling lots of old junk, nothing more than $50 or $100, when a Persian tile estimated at $50-75 came up.
It sold for over $9000. Evidently, several of those present knew what it was. The auction house sure didn’t!
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04/17/2010 5:34:23 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: NYer
I’ll give you one ... and you had better ask for “another” mister!.
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04/17/2010 5:41:23 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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04/18/2010 8:20:17 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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04/18/2010 1:16:49 PM PDT
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Daffynition
( In the span of one man's lifetime, only the individual has any potential - not the collective.)
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04/18/2010 1:20:46 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
PFFFFFFFFFfffffffffffffft! ;-D
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04/18/2010 1:30:05 PM PDT
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Daffynition
( In the span of one man's lifetime, only the individual has any potential - not the collective.)
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Thanks JoeProBono.
Note: this topic is from 4/17/2010.
Blast from the Past.
Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.
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