Indian pottery shards, stacks of dinosaur vertebrae, 19th century land deeds, 15th century folios, books on the Civil War, books on Arkansas History, books on Indian history, books on Creole culture, books in French, books in Latin, books in Spanish, surveyors maps, letters, writs of indentured servitude, photographs, newspaper articles, folk art paintings by Clementine Hunter and Mose Tolliver, Spanish crucifixes, a receipt signed by Stephen Austin of Texas fame, a panel carved by Japanese Americans during a stint in an internment camp at Rowher, a puncheon, a rusty Civil War bayonet, an old erector set, ancient Tom Thumb toys, fossils by the pile and the list goes on.
Roy Dudley is selling the estate of the late Sam Dickinson.
I didn't buy anything, but browsing around it is impossible not to have a spasm of admiration for the human tendency toward pack rat.
Sam Dickinson was an associate editor for the old Arkansas Gazette, which went down in a newspaper war to the Arkansas Democrat and is now the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
Paul Greenberg reminisces here.
Evin Demirel (how does he always get the quirky good stuff?) has an article on the sale up here
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