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Roy Rogers King of Cowboys This Week at LiveAuctionTalk.com
Rosemary McKittrick captures the feel of history at auction in her weekly LiveAuctionTalk.com columns. Visit her site. Sign up for a free weekly subscription.
SANTA FE, NM, November 27, 2010 /Country Music PR News/ -- He was the cowboy who alternated between chasing bad guys and strumming his guitar in B Westerns and on television. She was his female sidekick one of the most powerful female figures in cowboy culture.
Hollywood had a hand in shaping the image of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans but there was a presence about these two that defied mythology.
Granted theirs was a mythic frontier complete with gambling, saloons, gunfights, riding the range, and runaway stagecoaches. But reality didn't matter much to filmmaking in the '30s, 40's and 50s.
And if you could have your world anyway you like, why not the "sane" world of Roy and Dale.
Then there was Trigger, Roy's golden palomino. The two made 86 feature films together and 100 television shows. Roy was the only cowboy star to make all of his movies with the same horse. He often joked about what a "ham" Trigger was. During personal appearances the horse would sometimes break into a dance step at the same moment Roy started talking or singing.
On June 25-27 a selection of Roy and Dale's memorabilia went on the block in Brian Lebel's 21st Annual Old West Show & Auction held in Denver, Co.
Roy's silver mounted double holster gun rig manufactured by Ed Gilmore of Hollywood in 1958 sold for $103,500.
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Rosemary has provided auction coverage and analysis on thousands-and-thousands of antiques and collectibles sold since the column started 16-years ago. She includes auction sale results to give readers a feel for what their treasures are worth because the power of auctions is simple.
When the bidding stops and the hammer falls, the value of an item is set. The buyer, not the seller, sets the price, and this simple distinction cuts through all the chitchat about what art, antiques and collectibles are really worth. The emphasis is on today's values, not yesterday's wishful thinking.
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Rosemary is the co-author of The Official Price Guide to Fine Art published by Random House and received her training in the trenches working as a professional appraiser and weekly columnist.
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