Market Soft On JFK Items – IOTW Report

Market Soft On JFK Items

A number of items once owned by John F. Kennedy were put on the auction block Friday by Eldred’s auction gallery in East Dennis, on Cape Cod. There was a great deal of interest in a rocking chair used on the oval office, but a number of other items failed to find a buyer.

“About half sold,” according to gallery president Josh Eldred. Left on the auction block, a doodle the 35th president drew on a Texas hotel stationery on November 21st, 1963. More

11 Comments on Market Soft On JFK Items

  1. The opening bid on unsold items was higher than anyone wanted to pay. Real auctions start at a buck and let the crowd run the price. Everything would have sold if the auction allowed the items to sell. Is the market for JFK items soft, or was the auction house/estate owners overly ambitious/greedy?

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  2. Well, the’re selling “a doodle on stationary from a hotel room”

    I bet they are thinking that having a minimum bid on that worthless crap will bring a sucker quicker than fair market bidding as the suckers would catch on too quick at a fair auction.

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  3. Everything at an auction sells. I’ve seen people buy real actual garbage at auctions, I’m one of them.

    Who gives a crap what it is, it’s only a dollar. I’ll take a chance. 10-10 times I find something worth my dollar and much more in the garbage.

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  4. All the prime “important” JFK memorabilia was auctioned a few years back. That auction brought serious prices.
    This one appears to be dregs and leavings. Hotel scratchpad doodles? Old socks? Ashtrays? Gimme a break.
    But yes, looks like the bloom is off the rose at last. Clinton and Obama memorabilia won’t bring much either.

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  5. The Kennedys will always haunt us historically…and themselves personally…planes, trains and automobiles…

    Era, ERA, Teddy.

    Rot POS.

    JFK FAMOUS rocking chair went for 50K…

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  6. “…his personal stereo and Jackie Gleason records.”

    Those are what got Marylin Monroe to spread ’em in the Lincoln Bedroom. The backstory would have started the bidding.

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