Me and Polly at her farm in Grants Pass Oregon!
The farm is available to buy click on the link below. Many enjoyable days spent out at Polly’s farm 🙂
Me and Polly at her farm in Grants Pass Oregon!
The farm is available to buy click on the link below. Many enjoyable days spent out at Polly’s farm 🙂
Here are some pics and the video from the Ranch sale we did in October 2005. Earl’s 1969 Lamborghini Miura 🙂 We still have the Lamborghini sign, photos, and other historic memorabilia from the ranch. Thanks to everyone who came to the auction! We bought everything Earl had including the 1969 Lamborghini Miura that had been in Earl’s garage all those years. We spent a lot of time with Earl we even had a huge party at the ranch! Click here to watch the video of the auction ….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trwbZnCr8iE #barnfinds #1969 Lamborghini Miura
LaRue and Earl Morris 1969 Lamborghini Miura $2,500,000 BARN FIND – Lamborghini Miura Time Capsule
Another man’s treasure
If the one who has the most toys at the end really wins, Earl Morris might have the gold medal.
He never threw anything away, said Barbara Ritter of Central Point, one of the treasure hunters who looked over Morris’s possessions Friday during a preview of the estate sale that begins today at 10 a.m. and continues through Sunday at 8785 Blackwell Road.
Morris, who died May 12, accumulated a vast hoard during the 60-some years he lived at Hidden Valley Ranch, an 883-acre spread that straddles Interstate 5 between Gold Hill and Central Point. Morris and his brother, LaRue (who died in 1991), collected countless antiques for the Gold Gulch tourist attraction they ran in the 1960s and 70s.
They also acquired farm implements, tractors, steam engines, firearms, saddles, and a little bit of everything else made during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The auction catalog only hints at the bounty: 23 cars and trucks; 20 railroad pocket watches; three potbellied stoves; a fire hydrant; four chrome stools from a diner; Meissen china figurines; cap-and-ball revolvers from the Civil War.
— I’ve seen a number of items I’d enjoy bidding on, said Ray Spor of Grants Pass. Some of this stuff I haven’t seen since I left the ranch. I haven’t seen a butter churn in years.
Some people came to the preview looking for one thing, only to be seduced by something else.
I heard he had some antique cars that I might buy, said Don Babb of Rogue River, admiring several antique horse buggies. I didn’t know they had these, too.
Many who came to the preview knew Morris or at least knew of him. He became something of a legendary figure around Central Point for his annual appearances in the town’s Fourth of July parade at the wheel of a 1971 Lamborghini.
He was also generous: More than 160 Crater High School seniors will get scholarships this year alone for vocational and technical education as a result of earnings from a &
36;1.6 million trust fund he established to benefit the school.
Pre-sale publicity described Morris as an eccentric millionaire. Auctioneer Chris Fain said some people questioned his choice of words, but he noted that Morris was anything but ordinary.
His water heater didn’t work for years, Fain said, but he wouldn’t buy a new one. When he wanted hot water he heated it on the stove.
Fain said he once tried to install a brighter light bulb in Morris’s house, but the old man wouldn’t trade his dim 40-watt bulb for a 100-water.
He said electricity was too expensive, Fain recalled.
Fain noted that the sale has generated interest far beyond the Rogue Valley. He said inquiries came from as far as Texas and New York about some of Morris’s more unusual possessions.
noon several hundred people had toured the sale. Several said great deals are hard to find at estate sales these days.
There are very few bargains anymore, said Ken Nelson of Rogue River. There are lots of knowledgeable people. If you can find that one unique thing, you might find a bargain.
Competition is likely to be keen, said Babb, the Rogue River car collector, who admitted to owning some 400 cars. We’re a nation of collectors.
Another man’s treasure”bkettler@mailtribune.com.
| Fairy Tales Still Exist! Austrian Authorities Reveal Find of Buried Centuries-Old Treasure |
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VIENNA (AP).- A man turning dirt in his back yard stumbled onto buried treasure —
hundreds pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities
described Friday as a fairy-tale find. Austria’s department in charge of national antiquities said the trove consists of more than 200 rings, brooches, ornate belt buckles, gold-plated silver plates and other pieces or fragments, many encrusted with pearls, fossilized coral and other ornaments. It says the objects are about 650 years old and are being evaluated for their provenance and worth.While not assigning a monetary value to the buried bling, the enthusiastic language from the normally staid Federal Office for Memorials reflected the significance it attached to the discovery.”Fairy tales still exist!” said its statement. “Private individual finds sensational treasure in garden.” It described the ornaments as “one of the qualitatively most significant discoveries of medieval treasure in Austria.” The statement gave no details and an automated telephone message said the office had closed early on Good Friday. But the Austria Press Agency cited memorials office employee Karin Derler as saying the man came across the “breathtaking” objects years ago while digging in his back yard to expand a small pond.  The weekly Profil magazine identified the man only as Andreas K. from WienerNeustadt, south of Vienna, and said he asked not to be named. While he found the ornaments in 2007, Andreas K. did not report it to the memorials
office until after rediscovering the dirt-encrusted objects in a basement box while packing up after selling his house two years ago, said Profil. The soil had dried and some had fallen off, revealing precious metal and jewels underneath. He initially posted photos on the Internet, where collectors alerted him to the potential value of the pieces, leading him to pack them in a plastic bag and lug them to the memorials office, the magazine said in its Friday edition. Neither Profil nor the memorials office statement said when Andreas K. first alerted Austrian authorities and it was unclear why they waited until Friday to announce the discovery. Memorials office president Barbara Neubauer told Profil the objects were a “sensational find.” The magazine said the finder was not interested in cashing in on the trove and was considering loaning the collection to one of Austria’s museums. Photo/ Bundesdenkmalamt/ Bettina Sidonie
: George Jahn, Associated Press http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=46767
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Education doesn’t make you happy. And what is freedom? We don’t become happy just because we are free, if we are. Or because we have been educated, if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears. Tells us where delights are lurking. Convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever: that of the mind. And give us the assurance, the confidence, to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers. Iris Murdoch
I wasn’t a big fan of this movie, but I love this quote!
By Gia Vang
EUGENE, Ore. — Thousands of people went Saturday, but only one person ended up tying second place for most valuable find in show history at the Antiques Roadshow at the Lane County Fairgrounds. Appraisers say a gentleman brought a 1919 oil painting by Norman Rockwell, worth an estimated $500,000.
Show producers could not give us a name for the gentleman, but says he is a local to the Eugene area. Experts say they had two other notable finds. A 1935 Birger Sandzin oil on canvas, valued at $40,000 to $60,000. They also discovered an early 20th century Russian imperial officer’s sword, appraised between$75,000 to $100,000.
The most valuable find in Roadshow history is a Chinese Jade Collection discovered in North Carolina in 2010 and valued between $710,000 and $1,070,000.Saturday’s Eugene discovery ties for second place at $500,000 with a Palm Springs discovery from 2009 of a Clyfford Still oil painting.
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