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| For those of you who have gotten into internet auctions, especially ebay, you know it's easy to get auction fever. Well, fortunately for us, the bidder who got it the worst when this 80 page Peter Brown scrapbook went up for auction is a friend of this site. (You know, one of those friends you've never met but feel you know from emails and her tasteful choice in favorite TV Westerns and actors.) When we spotted the scrapbook, three of us got together and decided we'd make a group bid so we could use the pictures for the web site. But before we got a plan of attack, Jo Anne Roberts got in there with not only the top bid but a max bid we weren't about to compete with. |
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| As it turned out this auction was not for the faint of heart. The seller puts up many of these scrapbooks -- he must have some ads somewhere appealing to those same cold-hearted parents who sell their children's comic books and baseball cards if the kids leave their childhood belongings stored in the family home too long. A Michael Landon book had gone for $301 not so long ago but we chalked that up to that big contingent of Bonanza fanatics and figured the Lawman/Laredo crowd would be more reasonable. Of course, a Bob Fuller book had gone for around $275 and he and Peter have a lot of the same fans so we were happy that Jo Anne's hidden max bid was $275. Surely it wouldn't go higher than that. Most of the celebrity scrapbooks go for under $100, many for under $30. A few more bidders tested the waters and by the final afternoon the bid was edging close to $80. |
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| The auction ended on a work
day and imagine our shock when upon logging on after work, the max bid
had gone up to $485!!!! And Jo Anne was still top bidder. [Now
there's a woman with an understanding husband.] We were expecting
one of those last-second sniper bids so Jo Anne put in a max bid that floored
the rest of us. But luckily, she got it for $485. The second
highest bidder's auction history showed that he collected a lot of celebrity
memorabilia but there was nothing to show he was specifically a Peter Brown
or Westerns fan. We found out later that his aunt has been a Peter
Brown fan for 40 years. He remembered as a kid when she would
babysit them that she was always talking about Peter. When she asked
him to bid for her, he doubled her bid as a present. After the auction
was over, Jo Anne was nice enough to agree to make laser copies of the
whole book for him to give his aunt at cost. As Malcolm and his aunt
live in Australia, we are somewhat relieved that it's staying here so we
can scan it. But we're glad such a devoted fan is getting a full
copy. And the seller must be very happy.
The person we feel bad for is the girl who in the 60's must have lovingly put this book together only to have someone sell it. [Maybe she ended up married to someone who was threatened by her girlhood crush.] We'd love to hear from that person if she ever sees this. Jo Anne has a personal homepage at www.geocities.com/jo24558 Check it out if you'd like to read about the woman with the understanding husband (includes a picture of said hubby). |
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| Jo Anne most graciously
lent us the scrapbook to scan for this site. The only thing she asks
in return is that one of us have Peter sign it at the 2001 Laughlin show.
No problem there, he loved looking through it. At this late date
the stories of youthful marital follies and photo op dates were amusing.
He even called Bob Fuller and Edd Byrnes over to check out the pictures
where they appeared. Of course, this assignment was a lot easier
when we thought we'd be dealing with a $100 scrapbook. A $485 scrapbook
needed a real Lawman to guard.
We'll be adding the pages a few at a time. We'll be setting them out the way they were arranged in the book, even when that puts the pictures chronologically out of order or there are duplicate photos. We'll keep the size of the pictures proportional as well as best we can. If the captions are not readable after scanning, we'll type them in if we can read them. Any comments we make will be in purple or at the bottom. Some of the captions and pictures were cropped by the original owner in such a way that it was clear she didn't care about saving parts of pictures or information that wasn't about Peter. We didn't crop anything ourselves.
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