Jk Rowling's Chair Fetches $400,000 At Auction

[sandyRoe]

How much could her sofa be worth?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35983290

[aelmpvw]

should look nice once all the graffiti's been cleaned off ...

[sandyRoe]

Yup. Sanded down and varnished.

[RATTER15]

Who wants to buy the chair that I sit on whilst typing to AB, I also got it free. Start bidding guys!!

[Old_Geezer]

I'm sure that the unmade bed where she conceived Harry Potter would be worth millions then. No wonder the bidder wishes to remain anonymous. Probably got it as a surprise birthday present for someone.

[Peter Pedant]

I thought it might be the one from the caff.

as a authoress of the people - as poor as a church mouse - or one of the Bronte sisters, or even all three combined - with not a shillen' to her name, she was allowed to have a coffee and sit in a caff and scribble

and I thought it was one ofthem

actually she painted it and said it was the throne of her greatest creativity
I mean people ( anglos but also the ancient greeks did as well ) will think that if I sit in it then I may write .... locus genii and all that

sandy I hope you feel ashamed with all the squabbling you caused with your poor-oirish-innocents-of-cambridgeshire thread yesterday

[douglas9401]

Isn't there a section of society with a similar attraction to bicycle saddles?

[douglas9401]

Anyhoo, $400,000 is not to be sniffed at.

[Peter Pedant]

// And who wants to buy the chair I sit on whilst I type to AB // ratter

no I think people WOULD want to sand it down and bleach that one, ratter

[CrapAtCryptics]

As a dollar billionaire i doubt she needs the money - maybe she should have donated it to her favourite charities

[RATTER15]

CrapAtCryptics "Ms Rowling originally auctioned the chair to benefit her charity in 2002."

So she doesnt get the money but I bet it still fetched a tidy sum when she auctioned it in 2002 for her own charity.

[sandyRoe]

Wasn't it a Poet Laureate who summed up the interest in bicycle seats with this brief verse?
Some times I think that I would like
To be the saddle on a bike.

PP, my post on the Cambridge families of the art thieves was entirely guileless. People read between the lines and see what's not there.

[sandyRoe]

And Flan O'Brien in his book, The Third Policeman, wrote of the perils of prolonged periods of cycling. An exchange of molecules means the bicycle takes on some of the characteristics of the rider while the velocipidist becomes more like the bike.

[Peter Pedant]

sandy your heart rending piece on the bereft cambridge famblies (bereft of the money winner ) certainly melted the hearts of guileless if not gullible readers

shakers chairs go for around £100 000 -
so theres money in them there chars even if the casters are off....

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/31/arts/antiques-shaker-style-an-elegance-beyond-time.html
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[Peter Pedant]

cycling a lot in lycra
you may look good
but the heat makes you smaller - down there ... you know.....

[CrapAtCryptics]

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[DTCwordfan]

How much is the Bute Shakespeare volume of three books worth then? I wonder how much his chair would be worth.......?

[DTCwordfan]

ratter - you would have to pay me to take it....opening bid £150 from you to me.

[CrapAtCryptics]

Standing in corner wearing dunces cap

[DTCwordfan]

it suits you, CC!

[silliemillie]

Don't know about her donating to Charity but yhe person buying it should maybe consider it if they have that much money to waste!!

Of course we don't know that they don't blah blah but thats just my first thoughts when I see lunacy like this.