Treasure Or Stupidity in the News ?

[jeff of pa]

Not sure I can call this Treasure in the News, since allot of it is legal Counterfeits, (copies)
so I'll put it here.

first off Harrisburg PA
paid $8 million dollars for 10,000 cowboy and Native American artifacts.
as I said some are copies. in order to Build a Wild west Museum in the east

They are going up for auction.

The mayor says
the auction could raise as much as $6 million. In that case, the financially-strapped city would get as much as $3 million dollars.

Who gets the other $3,000,000 ? The Auctioneer ?


Am I the only one who thinks this Doesn't Compute ?

Sale of Wild West artifacts is on in the City of Harrisburg, will occur in July - CBS 21 News - Breaking news, sports and weather for the Harrisburg -York -Lancaster -Lebanon Pennsylvania area


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[h=1]How the West Was Accumulated, Back East[/h]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/us/08land.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

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[GMD52]

Jeff, please help me here.

The city paid $8mill. for the artifacts, expects to realize $6mill. from a week long auction, and will get $3mill., for their financially strapped city. To me it seems easy to see how they became financially in the pits!

 

[Dave44]

Jeff, please help me here.

The city paid $8mill. for the artifacts, expects to realize $6mill. from a week long auction, and will get $3mill., for their financially strapped city. To me it seems easy to see how they became financially in the pits!

Yep GMD you made it much clearer that time. I was trying to find a way to make Jeff's thread easier to relate to. Good Job!

 

[jeff of pa]

Jeff, please help me here.

The city paid $8mill. for the artifacts, expects to realize $6mill. from a week long auction, and will get $3mill., for their financially strapped city. To me it seems easy to see how they became financially in the pits!

BINGO ! give the Man his Prize

What happend To The Royal Savage ?
18th Century,
He bought & Stored away in someone Garage
in pieces ?



Rot, Fire wood on a Cold Night ?

From 2009

Harrisburg, Pa. - In a municipal garage owned by the City of Harrisburg is a pile of lumber that is the remains of the Royal Savage, the flagship of the most-famous traitor in American history, Benedict Arnold.

The Royal Savage was sunk in battle in 1776, salvaged in 1934, and purchased in 1995 by Mayor Stephen Reed for $42,500. The ship was supposed to be displayed in the National Civil War Museum. Reed said the Revolutionary War ship would have been part of a special exhibit.

http://blog.pressrepublican.com/arc...ed_the_mayor&catid=34:news-articles&Itemid=64

 

[onfire]

Western museum on the East coast?? I can see it in the weapons section "The sticks that won the West"
. You're never too old to learn something stu pid.
. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

 

[Dave44]

BINGO ! give the Man his Prize

What happend To The Royal Savage ?
18th Century,
He bought & Stored away in someone Garage
in pieces ?

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Rot, Fire wood on a Cold Night ?

From 2009



Royal Savage not up for grabs: Nobody's asked the mayor

I am speechless. How do we keep electing these people? We need a better vetting process, wish we had some sort of news agencies.

 

[onfire]

They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

 

[GMD52]

These people keep getting elected because the rest of us have to make an honest living, and they are the dregs of what's left. I find it hard to believe that individuals actually go to the Univ., major in poly sci, and want to be a politican?? Power, prestige, money,(on the table, and under it), that's what seems to attract some. A personal agenda to a hot button subject draws others. All the reasons in the world, except the right one, serving those who elected them.

Another thought: how easy it is to make decisions when you are using other peoples money, "nothing ventured, everything gained"

 

[mustangpalmer1911]

Harrisburg also had this happen when they built the Civil War musium much of it turned out to be counterfit.