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Anyone got $100K?
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08-28-2024, 08:47 PM
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Anyone got $100K?
Looking at the website for the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop, found this item available for the low, low price of $95,000. I ask for $100,000, though, because I figure it will cost me $5,000 to defend myself when Cheryl files for divorce.
https://alincolnbookshop.com/product/abr...-fragment/ Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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08-28-2024, 11:12 PM
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RE: Anyone got $100K?
Seems a little steep, but if Roger starts a Lincoln Discussion Symposium Go Fund Me, I'll kick in to help you out......
"There are few subjects that ignite more casual, uninformed bigotry and condescension from elites in this nation more than Dixie - Jonah Goldberg" |
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08-29-2024, 07:57 AM
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RE: Anyone got $100K?
Maybe Cheryl can quilt you one and save you about $94,957.83
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in? |
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08-29-2024, 07:53 PM
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RE: Anyone got $100K?
(08-29-2024 07:57 AM)Gene C Wrote: Maybe Cheryl can quilt you one and save you about $94,957.83 I can't even get her to quilt one that I designed around the life of Ida Tarbell, so I can't see this ever getting off the ground. Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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08-30-2024, 04:31 AM
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RE: Anyone got $100K?
(08-29-2024 07:53 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:(08-29-2024 07:57 AM)Gene C Wrote: Maybe Cheryl can quilt you one and save you about $94,957.83 And, I thought that I was the only difficult person that you ever had to deal with. "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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09-26-2024, 04:19 PM
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RE: Anyone got $100K?
Rob, your recent post about the Lincoln bookshop trying to sell a signed Sandburg set for $6,500 brought me back to this post. I think this is another example of the Lincoln Bookshop setting unreasonably high prices.
The dress fragment and letter the Lincoln Bookshop is trying to sell for almost $100,000 were both owned by our late friend, Dr. Blaine Houmes. They were sold by Heritage Auctions in 2022. The letter sold for $5,000, and the dress fragment went for $37,500. While I like the nice red clamshell container the Bookshop put them both into, I have a hard time believing that in two years, these items have more than doubled in value. |
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09-26-2024, 07:19 PM
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RE: Anyone got $100K?
Great to hear from you, Dave! It would have been something special to see Blaine's collection all together. I agree with you that it seems strange that all those items would have doubled in value.
Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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09-27-2024, 04:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-27-2024 04:07 PM by J. Beckert.)
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RE: Anyone got $100K?
That was quite a collection Blaine had. His lots comprised a bulk of the auction. Whomever bought the veil Mary Lincoln wore to Ford's lent it to the ALPM for display a while back. I'll never forget him letting me hold that. He was a great guy.
"There are few subjects that ignite more casual, uninformed bigotry and condescension from elites in this nation more than Dixie - Jonah Goldberg" |
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