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Ever see a $250,000 blanket?
Posted: Mar 24 2011 5:20 pm
by Alston_Neal
Warning this has nothing to do with feral cats.
Edit for biz reasons.
Re: Ever see a $250,000 blanket?
Posted: Mar 28 2011 2:22 pm
by PLC92084
@Alston Neal
Thanks, Alston... With friends like you, who needs enemas !? Don't give the mighty one any ideas I can't live with, please. If I knew anything about wool blankets other than they're itchy, I'd contribute something worthwhile, I promise... Guess you could say I'm sheepish...
Re: Ever see a $250,000 blanket?
Posted: Mar 28 2011 2:39 pm
by JoelHazelton
kingsnake wrote:Scat happens.
I want that shirt
Re: Ever see a $250,000 blanket?
Posted: Mar 28 2011 2:44 pm
by Alston_Neal
PLC92084 wrote:@Alston Neal
Thanks, Alston... With friends like you, who needs enemas !? Don't give the mighty one any ideas I can't live with, please. If I knew anything about wool blankets other than they're itchy, I'd contribute something worthwhile, I promise... Guess you could say I'm sheepish...
Please Dear Lord, call me home.
Re: Ever see a $250,000 blanket?
Posted: Mar 28 2011 7:59 pm
by azbackpackr
I will buy it. My cat would love sleeping on it!
Re: Ever see a $250,000 blanket?
Posted: Mar 29 2011 10:54 am
by Alston_Neal
Remind me again, aren't we related?
If so you definitely got the deeper end of the financial gene pool.
Re: Ever see a $250,000 blanket?
Posted: Mar 29 2011 11:41 am
by Sredfield
I've heard a couple great blanket stories. One was a knowledgeable dealer spotted one in the back of a beat up pickup in Cheyenne, being used as a saddle blanket, turned out to be very rare and valuable. Sorry, more details escape me.
Re: Ever see a $250,000 blanket?
Posted: Mar 29 2011 11:43 am
by azbackpackr
Alston Neal wrote:Remind me again, aren't we related?
If so you definitely got the deeper end of the financial gene pool.
Yes. My maiden name is Neal. If we are related, now that would scare the cats out of me!
Re: Ever see a $250,000 blanket?
Posted: Mar 29 2011 11:59 am
by PLC92084
azbackpackr wrote: If we are related, now that would scare the cats out of me!
...and Alston dares to chastise
me !?
(The fact that he has good cause has nothing to do with anything...)
Re: Ever see a $250,000 blanket?
Posted: Mar 29 2011 1:04 pm
by Alston_Neal
Sredfield wrote:I've heard a couple great blanket stories. One was a knowledgeable dealer spotted one in the back of a beat up pickup in Cheyenne, being used as a saddle blanket, turned out to be very rare and valuable. Sorry, more details escape me.
Probably the most well known would be the one from Tucson on the Antiques Roadshow. It was a First Phase Ute style blanket that was purchased by a dealer that did the appraisal on air. Those are running from 500K to750K.
I know of one dealer that was driving down the road and saw a Navajo child's blanket hanging over a fence. He bought it for nothing cuz the folks were using it to cover their lawnmower.
Six thousand in resto, sold it for 20K.
Bear in mind we have as many as 10 calls or e-mails a day and 98% is crap. This is why it's so exciting to see something really rare.
Re: Ever see a $250,000 blanket?
Posted: Apr 02 2011 2:20 pm
by Alston_Neal
Update..
I just received the results of the dye testing. The testing was done at Thomas Jefferson University using the Beckman DU-65 Spectrophotometer.
All four samples test as organic cochineal dye. One sample from the piece put it at 1840-1855, the other three samples will date it 1855-1865.
The piece will of course date to the newest dyes putting the blanket at a solid 1860 + or - five years. I'm in the process of writing out all the documentation, which is why I'm posting now, cuz my brain is getting fried and I needed a break.
I called the lady who owns it this morning to tell her the results. After talking with her for sometime she brought up what I've been hoping to hear.....
I would be interested in selling it.
To be continued...