Ackerman Collection to be auctioned off

[palitoy]

Ackerman sci-fi, horror collection up for sale - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090204/ap_en_ot/ackerman_memorabilia)

In a way, it's kind of cool to see this fall into the hands of people who were turned onto this stuff by his magazine in the first place.

[rche]

oh

wow!

Would've sorta been nice to see an Ackerman museum. But I suppose it will make for some interesting bidwatching.

[johnnystorm]

They're only expecting $500,000 for the lot? That sounds low...I know there's supposed to be a lot of junk, but those signed first editions sound expensive.
There could only be one of the Dracula with that combo of signatures. And how many Shelley Franks are around? Wish I had that kinda cash to bid!

[Gorn Captain]

I can't help it.
It saddens me.
A lifetime spent collecting, reduced to an Ebay sale...

[MysteryWho]

It was just stuff. It was his enthusiasm that was contagious and made it special.
Everything we have now or have ever had will one day be a pile of stuff.
People or Little Green Men might theorize about why it was special.
The best things in life aren't always free. But they are often intangible.
It's almost too bad that we need stuff to remind us what we actually treasure.

[toys2cool]

it's sad :embarassed: I can only imagine what's in there though

[unataper]

I would like to have the original ring that Lugosi wore in in 1931 Dracula...now, THAT would be cool to own!!

[4NDR01D]

You would think that for a fairly small sum of 500K, somebody would move the collection into a "proper" museum type setting. I mean, what's 500K to Speilberg or Lucas? nothing.
I would love to add a piece or two to my monster collection, but I would be happier if it all stayed together and had other directors, fans, prop people continue to add to it for another generation.

[cjefferys]

Yeah, if I was rich and had 500K, I would buy it all and start a museum. All that stuff deserves to be seen. But seriously, I think that price estimate is too low also. Come on, this collection includes a real Lugosi Dracula cape and ring, plus tons of Harryhausen props and some of the actual dinosaur models used to make the original King Kong film. Some of this stuff is priceless.

[MeerkatMego]

Maybe it will be like the Star Trek auction and things will go for triple the estimates.

[ramsey37]

Yeah, if I was rich and had 500K, I would buy it all and start a museum. All that stuff deserves to be seen. But seriously, I think that price estimate is too low also. Come on, this collection includes a real Lugosi Dracula cape and ring, plus tons of Harryhausen props and some of the actual dinosaur models used to make the original King Kong film. Some of this stuff is priceless.
I'm not sure if Forry still owned any of the King Kong dinosaurs when he died. I know that Peter Jackson bought at least two of them a few years ago, the pteranodon from "King Kong" and the styracosaurus from "Son of Kong". I'm not certain what became of the stegosaurus and the brontosaurus.
George

[palitoy]

Some of his collection had been sold off over the years from what I've read. I am sure these is a lot of gold remaining but I imagine the brunt of it is pulps, photos and movie posters.

It'd be nice if somebody swooped it all up but I doubt it'll happen.

[Meule]

They're only expecting $500,000 for the lot? That sounds low...I know there's supposed to be a lot of junk, but those signed first editions sound expensive.
There could only be one of the Dracula with that combo of signatures. And how many Shelley Franks are around? Wish I had that kinda cash to bid!

I agree, I would expect the sum of it all to go for a helluva lot more than that

[bobws]

It is a shame that it won't just go into or start its own museum. However that $500,000 estimate is always low. the same thing happened to the Marilyn Monroe stuff and JFK items. they give an estimate and the sell prices go through the roof... sometimes triple to 10 times the est.