Forget Freedom, forget the First Amendment, forget the Free Press, as long as business is good, who cares what they do in Washington?
If that’s not your attitude, you need to change it. You’ll never change the greed that feeds that raging torment of lost souls in Congress — the White House doesn’t count, because it’s Satan’s Shrine, the SOURCE of all the raging torment.
Gosh, are you wondering why you should bother?
Frankly, that’s been my position right from the start. After having spent your life blasting away at that 30 year mortgage — if banks will even LEND to you — and putting aside some money for your retirement to add to the social security checks, which don’t cover much of anything, guess what?
Social Security is closing down.
Oh, well, it wasn’t that much, anyway — all it did was keep some bread on the table, and we don’t need bread … we’ve got tons and tons of cake mix.
People — I’m using the term loosely — in Congress barely know you’re alive. To them, you’re just a vote or money, meaning a lobbyist with cash money in your pocket.
This is the time to unload and get ready to rock and roll, SELL ANYTHING THAT ISN’T NAILED DOWN, to prevent “Rear-View Mirror Syndrome” when you look back at the huge pile of stuff you had to leave behind when you became an American Immigrant.
With that in mind, I’ve put up six totally beautiful Grabhorn Press 1943 reissues of the Gauguin woodcuts — I don’t have the complete portfolio, but if I did, it would go up at Sotheby’s, not on eBay, believe me, and you wouldn’t believe what an intact one of those will bring.
They’re not the original 19th century edition, nor are they the 1921 posthumous edition — they’re technically “AFTER Gauguin” — some used the original blocks, a few did not, so “restrike” might or might not be an appropriate term.
In any case, they’re mighty limited in number — the whole 1943 Grabhorn Press edition was a total of 250 copies, and most of them are already gone into libraries, universities, museums, galleries and private collections.
I have had these in my collection for over 30 years. There are very few of them on the market today.
I can and will frame them if you wish, at an additional charge of $350, for a fantastic framing job in your choice of fancy carved gilded wood or Danish Modern Deep-Frame, or you tell me.
Here are the pieces I’ve listed on eBay. Feel free to make an offer below the asking price.
Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848–1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands).
“Le Porteur de Fei” from the now rare 1943 folio, woodcut after the original, in an edition of 250, REALLY hard to find, incredible condition!
One of Gauguin’s most beautiful Tahiti compositions (catalogue reference Guerin 64). Image size: 6.5 x 11 inches (165 x 280 mm). Folio edited by the Grabhorn Press. Each sheet measures 9.5 by 15 and the image is 6.5 by 11 and printed on a very fine japon-rice paper, asking price: $499.
“Horse & Birds” title page from the now rare 1943 folio, after the original woodcut, edition of 250, REALLY hard to find, incredible condition! One of Gauguin’s most beautiful Tahiti compositions (catalogue reference Guerin 74).
Image size: 6 3/4x 12 inches (170mm x 305mm). Unlike some other titles for Le Sourire, the original woodblock for this title was never found. There is therefore no posthumous restrike, only a poor reproduction from the impression numbered n°25 was edited by The Grabhorn Press at 250 copies on japan paper in 1943, asking price is only $499!
“NAVE NAVE FENUA” — Sweet Land — from the now rare 1943 folio, after the original woodcut, edition of 250, REALLY hard to find, incredible condition! One of Gauguin’s most beautiful Tahiti compositions (catalogue reference Guerin 94iii), asking price only $899.
“SOYEZ AMOUREUSES vous serez heureuses” — Sweet Land — from the now rare 1943 folio, after the original woodcut, edition of 250, REALLY hard to find, incredible condition! One of Gauguin’s most beautiful Tahiti compositions (catalogue reference Gray 76), only $499 — discounted price due to creases, which can easily be steamed out harmlessly by a professional conservator, cost about $200 — you save a total of $200 off the price for an uncreased print, and in a frame, it won’t show at all. I will frame this for an additional $350 — you can sell it framed for $1250 or MORE, right off the wall in your own home!
“Te Arii Vahine” or “Royal Woman” from the now rare 1943 folio, after the original woodcut, edition of 250, REALLY hard to find, incredible condition! One of Gauguin’s most beautiful Tahiti compositions (catalogue reference Guerin 62).
Grabhorn Press. Each sheet measures 9.5 by 15 and the image is 6.5 by 11 and printed on a very fine japon-rice paper, bargain priced at only $699.
“Le Sourire” or “The Smile”, Title Pagination Woodcut, 1943 folio, edition of 250, REALLY hard to find, incredible condition! Grabhorn Press. Each sheet measures 9.5 by 15 and the image is 6.5 by 11 and printed on a very fine japon-rice paper, my asking price is only $699.
Okay, so much for the Gauguin offerings, but what about all those fossils???
SALTASAURUS TITANOSAURIDAE EGG — MEMBER ALLEN FAMILY CRETACEOUS
PATAGONIA ARGENTINA, Size: 8.7cm x 6.0cm, Weight: 2.132kg, Personally prepared by Jerry Hodges for museum exhibition, a total steal at $1,250!!!
What’s unusual and important about this specimen is that it was prepared by Jerry Hodges specifically to reveal what is INSIDE the egg!!!
FISH FOSSILS KNIGHTIA HERRING SIX PIECES MUSEUM EXHIBIT #101 — STUNNINGLY DRAMATIC DISPLAY PIECES! Original Exhibit Cards included.
Personally prepared by Jerry Hodges for museum exhibition offered on eBay for only $489, leaving plenty of room for profit if sold individually in display mountings.
PLEISTOCENE MAMMAL “TARPIT” BONES — STUNNING DRAMATIC DISPLAY PIECE! A total of more than 50 pieces — one photo shows a special arrangement of 13 of them in an exhibit display mode. These are not easy to prepare and require the hand of an expert like Jerry Hodges to get it right. Personally prepared by Jerry Hodges for museum exhibition, offered at only $1249, but heck darn, make an offer I can’t refuse!!!
UNASSEMBLED PLEISTOCENE TAR PITS BIRD BONE SKELETON FROM THE JERRY HODGES COLLECTION — Personally prepared by Jerry Hodges for museum exhibition. Truly a collector’s dream, nothing else like it on the market. I have priced it at $14,500, but I’m open to any reasonable offer!!!
Dramatic and Exotic Coppersmithed Earrings hand-artisaned by Listed Artist E.J. Gold in the African Style. This is a very time-consuming work, and the amount of wire that goes into the project amounts to yards of copper, and time, effort & pain to wind the tight perfect coils, offered at a great price of only $189.
You might like to just pop over to eBay and buy this thing right now, so here’s a link: click here to actually buy it right this second — subject to prior sale, but I will make more if asked-for.
I have other stuff up, and more stuff coming. Here’s an example of another of my things that I’ve listed on eBay at prices calculated to SELL.
I listed this totally dramatic Czech hardwood bead and copper earring set at a crummy $49.74, but I will SOON change my mind. There are currently 11 of them left for sale on eBay, so after those examples are gone, you’ll have to make your own.
You can order this set in any U.S. Quarter Dollar configuration, any date, any mint mark, but ONLY in the finest condition! NO JUNK! I recommend the Ellis Island “Proud Immigrant Pendant”, at $39.95 — the earring set runs $69.95. Of course, you get the wholesale price for the set, of only $55. CHAIN NOT INCLUDED! Get chains at J.C. Penney’s or find them wholesale online — the 16″ should run about $22 in solid sterling silver.
U.S. Commemorative State Quarters in a “Littleton Green” Folder — all very bright uncirculated condition, perfect to show customers who want to order a pendant, earrings or a pendant & earring set from you! Includes all the quarters, mounted in the folder and ready to show.
There’s your catalog, comprised of actual coins, just like the coins they’re going to get when you mount them in solid sterling silver bezels or acrylic capsules! The whole catalog, searched, graded and completed by me personally, runs you a lousy $39.95, for work that you couldn’t pay me a million dollars to do just for money.
This catalog will get you rolling in the sales department, which will get your work rolling, and help the community at the same time!
Ask about the entrepreneur program at the ashram or on the morning show anytime!
This is the BIG GAMBLE, and we all think it’s going to pay off bigtime — we have almost SOLD OUT of our hot sauces, and we’re ready to produce more products this very week as-is!!! We will be adding more flavors of hot sauce:
- Jalapeno Hot Sauce
- Cayenne Hot Sauce
- Smoky Chipotl Hot Sauce
- Louisiana Style Hot Sauce
This is in addition to our already released “Habanero from Hell” which is really really HOT, and our Vidalia Onion BBQ Sauce, which is our best-seller.
We put a bottle a day out on our table, no kidding.
We’ll soon have a LOT more flavors and types of hot and cold drinks, snack foods and chocolates and more, but it all depends on YOUR interest and attention.
If YOU get on board, we will be able to produce wonderful products from the kitchen of the Zombie Family & Friends for your HOT TABLE at your local fairs!
PLEASE please ACTUALLY TRY some of our products or have someone you know and trust try them, because they are CLEAN and WONDERFUL recipes from the Zombie Family Recipe Book, which will be available soon in mortuaries everywhere.
Some folks can’t take the hot sauce, but seem to do great with the BBQ sauce, or at any rate, they seem to survive the experience.
The BBQ Sauce is a much larger bottle — they can both be used as table condiments, and everybody loves our Cappuccino, Bourbon-Praline and Double Dutch Chocolate mixes — they are only $9.99 a tin, and the tin is totally collectible!!!
Our new line of sauces will also include:
- Chicken Wing BBQ Sauce
- Sweet Red Gourmet BBQ Sauce
- Mesquite Steak Sauce
- Spicy Asian Marinade
- Smoky Maple Glaze
So, the HOT SAUCES are $7.99 a bottle, and the BBQ SAUCES and STEAK SAUCES are $9.99 a bottle for the bigger bottle of stuff, but you can order these WHOLESALE by the box and resell them in your own hometown!!!
Well, that’s enough sales pitching for tonight — I’ll mosey back over to my search desk and get started trying to find that elusive “In God We (T)rust” with the “T” knocked back or totally out.
I’m also looking for the rotated reverses of several issues of state quarters. Those sell at something over $1000 apiece in BU condition.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby