Hothem Collection!
Well, I am excited to announce that I spent the day in Lancaster, Ohio visiting with Sue Hothem of Hothem House Books with my good friend Doug Hooks, and we picked up the collection of Sue's late husband, author Lar Hothem. There are literally THOUSANDS of quality artifacts, mostly from Ohio, with the excpetion of the Bingman collection which Lar bought some years back which was from S. Illinois. What a time we had. Doug and I spent from 10 am until 4 pm packing and loading the artifacts, while stopping to drool on more than one occasion, and then driving very slowly and carefully back to our office to store them in the vault.
This is truly a fabulous collection that Lar put together. Of course, many of the artifacts have been published in his various titles, and the fact that so many artifacts are from known Ohio collections really makes this a great group of artifacts.
We will begin auctioning these artifacts off starting in October, and continuing with a series of auctions (5 to 6 probably) into 2008. At the end of the last auction, I am going to take all of the auction catalogs, combine them, and publish them into a limited edition book which will help document his collection and indicate all of the prices realized. As Lar wrote so many value and price guide books, I think having his personal collection as the basis for an auction price guide will be a nice tribute to the artifact collecting world's most noted author.
If you are not on our auction catalog list yet - make sure to email us so you wont miss out on what is sure to be a very important series of sales. To get on the list, please email my office manager Diana at dianaduff@verizon.net
Jim Bennett
Many thanks to my good friend and noted Ohio collector Doug Hooks (shown here) for his help in sorting. packaging, and then wearing out his back helping to carry crate after crate of artifacts to the van.
A small sample of some of the flat slate in Lar's collection to whet the appetite
Lar was fond of stone tools - as evidenced by the many boxes and tubs of nice grade axes, celts and adzes, a few of which are shown here.
This is truly a fabulous collection that Lar put together. Of course, many of the artifacts have been published in his various titles, and the fact that so many artifacts are from known Ohio collections really makes this a great group of artifacts.
We will begin auctioning these artifacts off starting in October, and continuing with a series of auctions (5 to 6 probably) into 2008. At the end of the last auction, I am going to take all of the auction catalogs, combine them, and publish them into a limited edition book which will help document his collection and indicate all of the prices realized. As Lar wrote so many value and price guide books, I think having his personal collection as the basis for an auction price guide will be a nice tribute to the artifact collecting world's most noted author.
If you are not on our auction catalog list yet - make sure to email us so you wont miss out on what is sure to be a very important series of sales. To get on the list, please email my office manager Diana at dianaduff@verizon.net
Jim Bennett
Many thanks to my good friend and noted Ohio collector Doug Hooks (shown here) for his help in sorting. packaging, and then wearing out his back helping to carry crate after crate of artifacts to the van.
A small sample of some of the flat slate in Lar's collection to whet the appetite
Lar was fond of stone tools - as evidenced by the many boxes and tubs of nice grade axes, celts and adzes, a few of which are shown here.
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