Amazing, simply amazing. So much for being in a “down” economy. LOL
Too much Ritz for me!
QUOTE;Zane Grey prices were, well, zany. His original fighting chair (estimated at $7,500 to $10,000) realized $24,640. His personal fishing pennant in red and blue, with initials “ZG,” (estimated at $3,000 to $5,000) went for $23,400. A pair of leather cowboy pants he wore in the West (estimated at $3,000 to $4,000) sold for $9,625.
A recent biography by scholar Thomas Pauly revealed that although Grey was married, he had a dozen women on the side. The auction included four lots of love letters to him in a code that he devised for his gals. The top lot: two partly coded letters from a Mildred Smith (estimated at $300 to $500) brought $1,064. Well, the man didn’t fish all the time.
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A Dozen? Code? WOW!
Doug
Maybe that’s why the leather pants went for so much…
…they’re a chick magnet!
Zane Grey Quote;?Time is probably more generous to an angler than to any other individual. The wind, the sun, the open air, the colours and smells, the loneliness of the sea or the solitude of the stream, work some kind of magic.?
The First Thousand Pounder. Zane Grey"
Zane Grey Biography;Born: 31 January 1872
Birthplace: Zanesville, Ohio
Died: 23 October 1939
Best Known As: Author of Riders of the Purple Sage
Name at birth: Pearl Zane Grey
Zane Grey was a prolific and popular author of novels about the wild west of the United States, best known for his 1912 novel Riders of the Purple Sage. For nearly three decades in the early part of the 20th century Grey published a novel almost every year. Many of them became best-sellers, including Heritage of the Desert (1910), Mysterious Rider (1921) and Code of the West (1934). Raised in Ohio, Grey also lived in Pennsylvania and New York (where he practiced dentistry before he turned to writing), and eventually settled in the western part of the U.S., in California and Arizona. An avid fisherman, he travelled the world on fishing expeditions and wrote several non-fiction books about the outdoors, including 1925’s Tales of Fishing.
Grey was one of early Hollywood’s favorite authors: during the 1920s and 1930s, the movie industry cranked out dozens of westerns based on his short stories and novels.
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Doug
Doug, that’s a lot of “going and doing” for a guy that wore leather pants!
Of course, then again, the stories YOU’VE told me, about “your exploits and your leather pants”, now make more sense to me, at least!
Ya’ know, don’t cha’ that The Buckeye Bandit and EdD, both wear leather pants too, but they’re shorts, not really pants.
Maybe we could make leather pants the “Official Pants of The NBOF”!??
Paul,
So Mikey & Ed wouldn’t wear these??http://images.netshops.com/mgen/master:FMC096.jpg
Thanks,
Doug 
When you look at those prices; don’t forget that at a Lang’s auction, the BUYER pays a 20% buyer’s commission on top of the price plus any applicable sales tax!
:shock::shock::shock: Whoa!!! and "AWW"RIGHT!!
Ya mean like these? 
Do chaps count? I still have a pair of roughout leather shotgun chaps, and have worn them several times.
Byron;
The Chaps ONLY count, if worn the way The Buckeye Bandit wears his… ONLY THE CHAPS! PERIOD! (he claims he likes the “ventilation”.
HRH Betty;
Yeppers!! 'Dems the ones I meant! EdD sports HIS in a light blue, suede whereas Mikey prefers the “He-Man Natural Buckskin”. (when not wearing just his chaps, of course), that are pictured and WarrneP., I heard, “pegged” his, for that “tight, Spandex, bicylce shorts, look”.
Also, dearest HRH Betty… when you make your comment as to the black leather pants picture Doug posted, where you stated… (quote)"Whoa!!! and "AWW"RIGHT!!(end quote), PLEASE take into consideration that we’re talking about JACK H. EdD, WARREN and CUDDLE BUNNY TUBER…wearing those SKIN TIGHT!?!
You, just MIGHT want to “re-think” your prose!??!
I went to the Lang’s auction once around 15 years ago when a film maker friend was debuting a film he had made on an elderly bamboo rod maker.
Not only did they have the big auction, but there was a flea market type show for us normal folks.
It was a lot of fun looking around at the old gear, some similar to stuff I remember breaking or losing when I was younger :rolleyes:
I had brought an old reel for an [LEFT][/LEFT]appraisal. An[LEFT][/LEFT] ancient little thing with a patent date of 1871 that could have been either for casting or for fly
I was sure I had a treasure
The anticipation was killing me as I waited in line.
…“This is a Hendrix casting reel” sez[LEFT][/LEFT] the guy " they made a million of them. Worth about $10"
… Hell, I saw bobbers worth more than that[LEFT][/LEFT]
WAY too drafty for me,
in Wyo. Plus the saddle rubs in all the wrong places!!!:oops:
I’ve got a few bobbers, then, dudley that I’ll let go to you for only $9.50!?!
Seriously, you have to have to have THE BIG BUCKS, (like WarrenP. and Joe V.) to attend such auctions and expect to buy anything.
Hmph. Shows what Flybinder knows. He can’t even tell the difference between suede and naugahyde…
Ed
Now, Eddie-weddie, that’s not NICE!!
I, DO TOO…"Know the difference between “Suede and Naugahyde”!
For, instance, SMARTY, it takes FIVE Nauga pelts to make a standard pair of decent chaps, (the kind worn by The Buckeye Bandit) and yet, up to NINE pelts of an adult Suede to make the same sized pair!
The reason this is of course is due to the stretchability of the Nauga’s hide when it is fully mature, (it’s against the law to hunt juvenile Naugas at least here in Oregon).
As I’m sure YOU KNOW, Ed, Naugas protect themselves, from all known predators by being able to stretch out their skin and bend their limber muscles and joints, to form themselves into such things as old purses, car seats, travel bags, etc. anything normally found along road ditches and culverts, tossed away by humans so carelessly.
Naugas have adapted really well, as far as co-existing with humans, from whom, they’ve learned these survival tactics.
Suedes, of course, don’t have this ability or, the stretchable hides. Also, being a fairly small and quite fuzzy animal, it just naturally takes more of their pelts to make anything of equal size, required by using Nauga.
In fact, the only KNOWN time, that a Suede has surpassed a Nauga in actual “usability pound for pound” in pelt size, is in the manufacture of certain men’s shoes. And even then, only the quite rare, fully mature, male BLUE Suede is used in this one process.
Hmmmff, tell ME I don’t know my wildlife, will ya’!
Ed,
Paul knows what he’s talkin’ about! Here’s his REE- CLINERhttp://makingfurnitureinteractive.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/26631.jpg