Real Egyptian mummies are exceedingly rare on the market, so it is no surprise that Christies allocated eight full pages of its winter 2006 catalogue and dedicated an entire room in its Rockefeller Center location for previewing of its 21st Dynasty (990-940 BC) mummy and sarcophagus.
The lot, consigned by the Western Reserve Historical Society, was originally purchased by Liberty Holden of Cleveland, Ohio, from Sheik Mahmud Hassan in Luxor. The intact mummy and wooden burial casket spent 90 years on exhibit at WRHS, prior to being moved to the Frank McClung Museum in Knoxville, TN.
Christies did not publish an estimate for the lot, but privately the whisper among dealers was that it would bring $1-2-million. The mummy was hammered down at the low end of the whisper range, a mere $1-million (not including the 20% buyer's premium).
As a leftie (that being a peosrn who writes with his/her left hand), I am deeply offended by the first poster's comments pulling me and my kind into this political and cultural debate.And as for wanting to reduce the world population to 2 million: first, that would take a lot of work (aren't we at many billion?), and b, I try to increase the population every chance I get, if you know what I mean, and I think that you do.
Posted by: Jelseah | April 26, 2012 at 02:28 AM
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Posted by: Scottie Ulon | May 01, 2012 at 08:53 PM