Shirlee MacDonald
People still talk about long-time Findlay Club member Shirlee MacDonald's massive bottle and fruit jar collection, and the auctions of her estate that were held the summer of 2007.
The final auction was cataloged, and online, and the photographs and realized prices are still online.
Oct 19th, 2007 -- http://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/14026/page1 -- (prices do not include 15% buyer's premium, sales tax, shipping, etc.)
Here are some pix from the auction preview that day. This was the last of several auctions, and it is but a tiny fraction of what her collection held.
[Editor's note: I'm doing some Spring cleaning to the blog's archives, and thought I'd occasionally re-run some posts. Shirlee's living in a senior home in Findlay, and we miss her bunches!]
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This is just a fraction of her collection?It's fabulous! How many bottles and jars did she collect overall?
ReplyDeleteMark, you won't believe how much Shirlee had! The 1st auction was box lots full of good stuff, and there was literally 2 semi-truck loads. Then there were 3 or 4 normal-sized auctions, and the final cataloged one. It was the most fun! But we'll never have an actual item count.
ReplyDeleteShirlee had all kinds of glass -- candy containers, miniature perfumes, advertising, oil, milk, fruit jars, local beer bottles, kerosene, banks, martini shakers -- the list goes on and on. And she was not one for duplicates, unless they were a variation.
I hope to attend another auction of that size and caliber some day!