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Excellent! I will write you a personal, post-date check, written on a napkin in crayon, drawn on the Nacional Banko a Mumbulu. When can I expect delivery?Those are fake, I have the real ones.. shoot me a PM and I'll hook you up.. Oh! My cousin the Nigerian Prince will be taking care of the transaction, I hope you don't mind
February 30th.
Perhaps you are fortunate to have missed-out. Those red moccasins are stolen property. The Munchkin Police and Oz Bureau of Investigation have been looking for them since 1939. (On the other hand, they have been "looking" since 1939 . . ..)Judy Garland's Ruby Slippers From 'The Wizard Of Oz' Sell for $28 Million, a Wicked New Record
Judy Garland's Iconic ruby slippers from 'The Wizard of Oz' get auctioned for $28 million, far surpassing estimates.
Not a collector, but it's my favorite movie of all time. Maybe next time.
They actually were stolen a while back. The thief probably increased the value of them. The fence is going on trial after the shoes were recovered. The guy who stole them was so smart he thought they really had rubies on them. What a doof.
There is some junior civil servant who spends his entire "work" day running flags up and down a flagpole at the Capitol so that Members of Congress can give "genuine flags flown over the Capitol" to their supporters.
Actually, there is a several person office that takes care of this. They fly something on the order of 100,000 flags each year, plus the Fallen Heros ones.
Best guess is there were 7 or 8 pairs made. One pair are called the 'Arabian' slippers as they had a curled up toe. These were not used in the film. The other 7/6 pair have had a circuitous life, being sold and re-sold and in some cases stolen along the way. 5 pair, including the Arabian set still known to exist. The owners of the other slippers must be ecstatic about the recent sale. Original estimates of value were $2-3M. This sale was almost 10x that and over 10x the est with the buyer premium to the auction house.
My mom has one of those flags. It still has the fold creases in it from when it was brand new. Not the triangle fold, but the square fold.
