Syndicating Trigger
Despite the economic downturn, the art market is back and by evidence of the prices at Christie's the western segment is red hot, so check out your barn and attic, those dusty old chaps and spurs could be worth a mint. Welcome to Open Range I’m Susan Allen, back after the break. Years ago my mother-in-law sold some wooly chaps at a garage sale along with antique silver buckles she had no idea they would be worth a mint today in a market that is paying top dollar today for Cowboy and Indian artifacts. Sotheby’s has announced they are preparing to auction off Oglala Sioux, Chief Black Bird’s ornately beaded war shirt and is expecting it to bring over $350,000. Buyers of Native American artifacts are rarely native American, most come from Europe and the Middle East. Last summer’s High Noon sale sent ripples of shock throughout auction houses when items like Roy Rogers silver 1949 Bohlen trophy saddle went for $386,000 and Rogers’s first cowboy boots brought a whopping and unbelievable $7500. Yet no one expected that the piece de resistance, would be a dusty old stuffed horse The gavel dropped at $266,000 for the iconic Trigger, Roy Roger's beloved mount, the buyer, the rural lifestyle television network RFD TV. So from an investment standpoint, consider that a dead horse brought morethan nearly all the thoroughbred yearlings that sold at last year’s Keeneland sale. Can we syndicate Trigger? How about a clone?
