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BRANDON HISTORY between $3 million (fantasticfives.

Continued from Page 15 com) and $5 million (most-expensive.
com). Truly, no one really knows what
April 18, 1998: Michael Jordan astronomical price
Mango Rd The Chicago Bulls jersey he wore then Shakespeare’s signature
played his final regular season game.
would bring. However,
MLK Jr. Blvd 574 sold for $173,240 at Goldin Auctions in a definite price was
2015.
paid for one of the 40
75 39 April 22, 2005: Johnny Carson’s known and complete
301 Parsons Rd Shure SM33 microphone from The First Folios containing
his plays—$5,153,242
❶ Brandon Blvd went for $50,787.50 at Heritage
60 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 2006 at Sotheby’s.
Auctions. Known as “the king of late April 26, 1875: The birth of John
night television,” Carson’s show ran
Lumsden
Kings Ave for 30 years from 1962 to 1992. It won James Audubon, wildlife artist
extraordinaire. In December 2010, a
six Primetime Emmy Awards, and he
first edition of Audubon’s The Birds of
Bloomingdale Ave Lithia Pinecrest received the Presidential Medal of America, published 1827-1838, four
Freedom. An accomplished comedian,
volumes, about 38 x 25 inches each,
he said: “If life were fair, Elvis would be flew off the auction block at Sotheby’s
Somewhere In Time alive, and all the impersonators would London for $11,542,683—the highest
be dead” (brainyquote.com).
price paid thus far.
April 24, 1904: Birthday of artist April 28, 1789: Lieutenant Fletcher
Willem de Kooning. In 2015, his Christian led a mutiny against Captain
“Antiques - Collectibles & More”
The Shoppes of LaViva abstract painting Interchange sold for William Bligh on the HMS Bounty.
$300 million. It was listed as the highest
720 W. Lumsden Rd. price paid for a painting until November Bligh and some of his loyal sailors
eventually made it back to England. Ten
Brandon, FL of 2017 when Salvator Mundi changed of the mutineers were later apprehended,
hands for $450 million.
813-684-0588 brought back and tried; three were
hanged and seven were acquitted or
April 26, 1564: William
Open Mon.-Sat. 11-5, Sun 12-5 Shakespeare’s baptismal date; his exact pardoned. Fletcher Christian was never
found but believed killed by Polynesians
Like us on Facebook: Somewhere in Time Brandon, FL birth date is not clearly recorded but or by his own men.
❶ believed to be April 23. Only six of In 2011, two of
his signatures exist, and each is valued Captain Bligh’s medals
were auctioned for
98 $216,000 at Noble
Dade City & San Antonio Numismatics in
Celebrating Australia. One was a
22 Antiques Naval Gold Medal for a victory against
YEARS! on the Meridian Ave the Dutch, and the other, also gold,
MAin street DADE CITY was an award from the Society for the
Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures
and Commerce (the Royal Society
Specializing
in 52 Clinton Ave of Arts) for returning to Tahiti and
Primitives obtaining breadfruit, his original
4 mission.
Bligh’s notebook recording the
577 579 mutiny (“Just before sun rise the People
579A Ft. King Hwy. mutinied, seizing me while I slept in
Peggy Capps, Proprietor 301 98 my Cabin.”) and his harrowing voyage
(352) 523-0999 75 home sold for $91,000 in 1976 in

14122 7th STREET 39 London (nytimes.com, 11/25/1976).
DADE CITY, FL 33525 3 April 29, 1954: Birthday cake for
comedian and TV star Jerry Seinfeld. In
AMERICAN EAGLE 2016, he sold 18 cars from his collection

ANTIQUES through Gooding & Co. for $22,244,500
(newsday.com, 3/21/16). Included was a
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