'Maltese Falcon' figure sells for more than $4 million

SFGate ^ | Nov 25, 2013 | SFGate

[Kip Russell]

A statuette of a bird featured in the classic 1941 detective thriller "The Maltese Falcon" sold for more than $4 million at auction Monday.

The final price on the 45-pound, 12-inch-tall prop was $4,085,000, according to Bonhams auction house. That includes Bonham's premium.

[Kip Russell]

[william clark]

What I want to know is what became of the falcon from the 1931 original? It turned up later in the early John Wayne western “Haunted Gold,” but that’s the only clue I have to its fate.

[ken5050]

Remember the idiots who paid millions for Bonds, McGwire's and Sosa's HR balls?

That club has a new member..

[skeeter]

Spade was a sap. Gutman only gave him 10 Gs for it.

[BenLurkin]

“The stuff dreams are made of.”

[Wiggins]

“It’s the stuff dreams are made of”.

[PapaNew]

“The schtuff dreams are made of...”

[BenLurkin]

He better scrape at it with a pen knife to make sure it really is encrusted with jewels.

[4yearlurker]

I wonder how much they got for “The Fatman’s Chair.”

[ClearCase_guy]

Mr Spade, have you any conception 0f how much money can be got for that black bird?

No.

Well, sir, if I told you, if I told you half, you’d call me a liar.

No, not even if I thought so.

[faithhopecharity]

Four million dollars and it can’t even poop ?! Bad deal.

[freedomson]

“I imagine they were pretty well fixed.”

[Kartographer]

"“It’s the stuff dreams are made of”

So the Falcon was made out of The One's Teleprompter leavings?

[Kartographer]

So what about the Gunsel’s automatics?

[Slambat]

“’Maltese Falcon’ figure sells for more than $4 million”

Now that’s what I call proper redistribution of wealth.
People should be willing to redistribute their wealth at
their pleasure and convenience rather than be forced to by a
certain jug-eared commietard and his communist regime.

[Conan the Librarian]

Is this the one that Bogie dropped and dented?

[fruser1]

“When you’re slapped you’ll take it and like it!”

A good line to have handy. Too bad the commie-in-chief wouldn’t dare say such a thing to Iranians.

[Kartographer]

The problem is to many ‘Dims’ liked to be slapped!

[Kip Russell]

Now that’s what I call proper redistribution of wealth. People should be willing to redistribute their wealth at their pleasure and convenience rather than be forced to by a certain jug-eared commietard and his communist regime.

That reminds me of a conversation I had on Democratic Underground before I was banned there (yet again). Someone was criticizing me for spending money on firearms, money that should have (in their view) been spent on charity instead. I asked them if they had ever, in their entire life, spent at least $500 on any recreational activity, because if they had, they had chosen to amuse themselves rather than give that money to a charity feeding starving people in Africa....which meant that entertainment was more important to them, at least once in their lives, than someone's life.

They responded that they had never spent so much as a penny on entertainment in their entire life, that they sent every spare dollar they had to leftist causes. I called them a liar, and that was that :-)

[latina4dubya]

“The schtuff dreams are made of...”

i like yours best!