July 6, 2006
It's an Auction, Jim, but Not as We
Know It
By JAMES BARRON
The stuff of "Star Trek" — uniforms, communicators and other props, including
pointy rubber ears — has boldly gone to a place where the intrepid crew never
took the Enterprise: the
Title: Re: [MOPO] A HUGE AUCTION ON THE HORIZONSET
PHASERS TO
Christie's will produce a two-volume catalog, priced at $90, and
there's a special for all you hardcore-trekkies out there: $500 will
get you a special limited edition box set. Both available in
August.
Helmut
It's
an Auction,
A three day STAR TREK convention I attended in England in the late 1970s
(as a dealer) remains one of the truly great surreal events of my
working life.
The guy at the table next to me, selling stapled xerox copies of
numerous fanzines containing erotic tales of couplings between Kirk and
Phil, being in New York during the 60's-84, I was
fortunate enough (?) to go to the first Star Trek
conventions ever and the best ones ever as well.
Of course I was a dealer at all of them and from
the dealer perspective - they changed from the
1970 convention to the mid/late 1970's cons
Haven't been to many, but the last sci-fi convention I was at (yes, as a
dealer) a couple of years ago, the trekkies had been displaced by Lord of
the Rings freaks in hobbit outfits, with a sprinkling of Stargate types in
military gear, a Vader and a couple of Imperial Stormtroopers (it was a
Dave,
From what I understand, Star Trek fandom actually grew too big for the regular
science fiction conventions and started staging their own. I believe the only
reason you didn't see any at the convention you went to is that they no longer
bother with regular science fiction conventions and
At 11:16 AM 7/6/2006, JR wrote:
Dave,
From what I understand, Star Trek fandom actually grew too big for
the regular science fiction conventions and started staging their
own. I believe the only reason you didn't see any at the convention
you went to is that they no longer bother with
HELLOOO
What do YOU MEAN BY "Trekkies" are one strange bunch What about us ?
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Rich,
Maybe... but if so, why is Christie's staging this huge auction of Trekabilia?
-- JR
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