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Page 14 The Antique Shoppe June, 2017
June 12, 1963: Cleopatra debuted starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. It
This Month in Collecting was a 6-hour movie that was edited down to 4 hours. It earned $26 million that year, but

its budget was $44 million (xfinity.com). It is now at $57 million worldwide (the-numbers.
History: JUNE com). It won four Oscars (imdb.com). Cleopatra’s gold-painted leather Phoenix cape sold
for $59,375 at Heritage Auctions in 2012.

By: Mike McLeod June 15, 1937: Waylon Jennings was born and had hits like “Mamas Don’t Let Your
Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” and “Good Hearted Woman” (“In love with a good
June 1, 1938: Superman arrived on Earth in Action Comics #1, thanks to Jerry Siegel timin' man”). He was acknowledged as one of the greatest in country music. In 2014,
and Joe Shuster. The cover featured the Man of Steel holding a green car of steel. A9.0- Guernsey’s sold Waylon Jennings’ 1958 Ariel Cyclone motorcycle (once belonged to his
graded copy flew off eBay for $3.2 million in 2014. friend Buddy Holly) for $457,500. In 1959, Jennings gave us his seat on a plane for “The
Big Bopper” J.P. Richardson. Also on the tour group’s plane was Richie Valens and Buddy
June 1, 1926: The birthday of Norma Jean Mortenson/Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Holly. It crashed, taking all three.
Monroe’s fawn-colored overcoat sold for $175,000 at Julien’s Live in 2014. Her personal
makeup case sold at Christie’s in 1999 for $266,500 (therichest.com, 02/19/14). June 16, 1829: The Apache leader Geronimo was born.
His Model 1870 Springfield rifle sold for $99,450 at Bonhams
June 4, 1977: Poppy Flowers by Vincent van Gogh & Butterfields in 2007.
was stolen this day from the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil
Museum in Cairo, Egypt—for the first time. It was found June 17, 2014: The British Guiana 1¢ magenta stamp
and returned in the next decade but stolen again in 2010 sold for $9.4 million at Sotheby’s, the highest price paid to
from the same museum. The masterpiece is valued at date for a stamp.
$50+ million.
June 18: 2011: Marilyn

June 6, 1868: Royal Navy officer and explorer Captain Monroe’s white Subway Dress
Robert Falcon Scott was born. In 1912, Scott and his team from The Seven Year Itch
made it to the South Pole but were more than a month auctioned for $5.6 million at
behind Roald Amundsen, the first to reach it. Profiles in History, the most paid to date for a Hollywood
dress. The scene on a street had to be reshot on a sound
Unfortunately, Scott and his stage due to noise from a large crowd of reporters and
team all died from exposure, onlookers (biography.com, 9/15/14). The dress was part of a
exhaustion and lack of food on collection owned by actress Debbie Reynolds.
the return trip to their base camp.
Even so, “Scott of the Antarctic” June 19: Debuting this day were: the Tasmanian Devil in Devil May Hare, 1954; the
became a national hero in Great Garfield cartoon strip, 1978; and Guy Lombardo, 1902. A Tasmanian Devil 3.5 x 5"
Britain. production cell from Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare (1964) spun up $1,553 in 2013 at Heritage
Captain Scott's silk Union Auctions.
Jack taken on his two Antarctic
expeditions, including the June 22, 1969: The star Judy Garland (Frances Ethel
last one, sold for $114,929 at Gumm) passed away. Dorothy’s blue gingham dress worn
Christie’s in 2010. in The Wizard of Oz sold twice. Julien’s Auctions sold
Capt. Scott (back, middle) at the South Pole. it for $480,000 in 2012, and then Bonhams tripled its
price to $1,565,000 in 2015. “Over the Rainbow,” which
June 6, 1944: D-Day, the Normandy Invasion Garland sang in the dress, was almost cut from the movie
by the Greatest Generation. A 48-star flag flown to shorten its running time. It won an Academy Award for
from the U.S. Navy Landing Craft Control (LCC) Best Original Song and became Garland’s lifelong theme
60 sold for $514,000 at Heritage Auctions on song.
June 12, 2016. From the personal collection of
Lieutenant Howard Vander Beek, the skipper of June 25, 2011: A tintype
LCC 60, it was the first vessel to deliver troops to photo of Billy the Kid sold for
Utah Beach—and it ferried soldiers in 18 more $2.3 million at Brian Lebel’s
assault waves. (Photo courtesy of Heritage Auctions) Old West Auction.
This photo gave rise to the
June 7, 1848: Post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguinwas born in Paris. His 1892, myth that he was a left-handed gun because as a tintype,
When Will You Marry? depicting two Tahitian women sold in a private sale in 2015 for the image was flipped (Aboutbillythekid.com).
about $300 million, it is believed. Gauguin counted Cezanne, Pissarro and van Gogh as
friends or acquaintances. June 25, 2011: One of Michael Jackson’s two black and
red leather jackets worn in Thriller sold for $1.8 million at
Julien’s Auction.
June 8, 1916: Francis Crick was born near
Northampton, England. A discoverer of the structure June 27, 2015: Marilyn Monroe’s grave marker from
of DNA with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, all the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los
shared a Nobel Prize in 1962. Crick’s Nobel Prize sold Angeles sold for $212,500 at Julien’s Auctions.
in April 2013 for $2,270,500 at Heritage Auctions.
A year later, Watson’s Nobel hit $4.75 million at June 28, 2012: Delightful memorabilia from the movie
Christie’s; his five-page Nobel banquet speech sold Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (1979) sold at
for $365,000 at the same auction. Profiles in History: Veruca Salt’s Everlasting Gobstopper
Crick’s Nobel Prize (Photo courtesy of Heritage Auctions) (one of only two known to exist), $40,000; Willy Wonka’s outfit including the purple
velvet coat, slacks, white shirt, purple and violet lamé vest and floral satin tie, $60,000;
June 11, 1770: Capt. James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef when his ship Willy Wonka’s brown felt top hat sold separately for $27,500; and an Oompa Loompa
Endeavor ran aground on it. Cook voyaged far away from his home in England—to New costume of rust-colored shirt with striped collar and cuffs, white jodhpurs, leather
Zealand, Australia and Hawaii where he perished. In 2003, a gold-mounted hardwood slippers with pom-poms, and a green wig for $25,000. (Prices do not include buyer’s
walking cane made from the spear that killed Captain Cook on Feb. 14, 1779 (kept by premium.)
an officer on the Endeavor) was sold for £150,750 at Lyon & Turnbull. It was engraved
with: "From Adml. C.B.H. Ross C.B. To Admiral Sir David Milne G.C.B. Made of the spear
which killed Captn. Cook R.N."Also, Cook’s pistol sold for $227,100 at Leski Auctions All photos public domain, PD-US, unless otherwise noted.
in Australia in 2013. Credits: Timelines.ws, Historic-uk.com, Wikipedia.org