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Article: Can't buy what really mattered
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 25, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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While we sure can measure the auction activity in dollars, it is a
little more complex trying to figure why otherwise rational human
beings would spend hundreds of thousands at Sotheby's this week
simply to get a chair Jack Kennedy once sat in or a cigar humidor he
touched 33 years ago. The bidding looks to be an effort to buy back
an American past locked in the thick fog of nostalgia.
And a lot of people are wondering why the Kennedy family --
Jackie's kids actually -- put a warehouse of memorabilia on the
market. Estate taxes? Walking-around money? Who knows?
Maybe a better question is what would prompt a person to shell out
five figures for a high chair or six for a simple mahogany table? ...
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