{"id":1866,"date":"2009-02-10T07:26:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T11:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2009-02-06T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T18:44:31","slug":"ackermans-collection-to-be-auctioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1866","title":{"rendered":"Ackerman&#8217;s Collection to be Auctioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heirs of the late uber-fan Forrest J. Ackerman are planning to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/entertainment\/movies\/39093562.html\">auction off<\/A> much of his collection, and expect to clear at least $500,000.  Frankly, that figure sounds too low.<\/p>\n<p>He had over 300,000 pieces of film memorabilia, including classic props like Bela Lugosi&#8217;s cape and signet ring from <I>Dracula<\/I>; rarities such as an autographed first edition copy of <I>Frankenstein<\/I>; complete sets of over 200 SF magazines; and over 50,000 books.  For an idea of the extent of his collection, check out the &#8220;visit to the Ackermansion&#8221; tour on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kYhIkDROLwI\">Part 1<\/A><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F16hfQ_7hGA\">Part 2<\/A><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZP0AMjPLWHU\">Part 3<\/A><\/p>\n<p>The auction is tentatively scheduled for the last week in April.  It will be handled by <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.profilesinhistory.com\/\">Profiles in History<\/A>, so if you&#8217;re interested in fighting your way through the baying packs of fans to obtain a bit of this collection, keep an eye on their site for further information.<\/p>\n<p><I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theendoftheuniverse.ca\/\">Website at the End of the Universe<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heirs of the late uber-fan Forrest J. Ackerman are planning to auction off much of his collection, and expect to clear at least $500,000. Frankly, that figure sounds too low. He had over 300,000 pieces of film memorabilia, including classic props like Bela Lugosi&#8217;s cape and signet ring from Dracula; rarities such as an autographed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}