I can't believe Bacall/Bogart's kids put this stuff up for auction

Is "sda" the same as "dyslexic," MAYR?

Are you a hoarder?

Wow -- that's sad.

Can not get enough of these celebrity auctions

I would not auction my parent's wedding rings. But this? Yes. This will bring in a nice sum. The bid is already at 100k.

I get what you're saying, OP, but at what point does one keep holding on to these sorts of things? Their kids might think "Eh, these are cool." Their kids' kids will certainly sell them off and they'll be worth way less by then, because that generation won't understand the 'magic' of Bacall/Bogart, etc.

R5, the worlds most expensive rape whistle! Though I assume it’s really for hailing cabs.

It would be one thing to do it immediately after their deaths, but it's been years.

The only questionable items are the wedding rings.

Whateve value these items might have is slowly declining as the people who have any idea who Bogart and Bacall are die.

Who would want to keep this stuff. Where would you put it. Let collectors buy it. I bet some of you have messy, messy houses.

While HER reputation continues to decline over the years as more people find out who she really was mine continues to grow. All of my things are in a storage container in Reseda for which my non lesbian lover has the key. My things will go for ten times the amount! Cult status here I come! Cunt status is yours forever.

Almost all that stuff is ugly and clunky.

R10 Tubi has a shit ton of Lisabeth Scott movies and I have come to love her. I didn’t know who she was before this year.

The whistle bracelet was placed in the “crypt” with the box containing Bogart’s ashes in 1957.

It was opened in 2014 to place Bacall’s ashes with Bogart’s.

My guess would be Stephen Bogart alone made the decision to remove the bracelet in 2014 and sell it.

He’s been living off his father’s legend for years.

Basically a loser, thrown out of numerous schools, drifted from job to job and married three times.

sda = so damn angry

R13, The daughter, Leslie Howard Bogart, is married to a well known yoga instructor and they live and teach in California.

Sam Robards, I doubt had any part in this, since Bogart was not his father.

r7 - Tony! You know how to whistle, don't you?

It's just stuff - they have tons of other mementos. If you don't want it and think someone else will cherish it much more than you, why the hell not?

Bacall’s Dakota apartment sold for $21 million.

I can.

R5 Why not auction their rings? Is there someone you will leave them to?

I also would have kept their wedding rings and that locket as mementos if I were the kids—that type of thing has sentimental value that far exceeds that of things like cufflinks or cigarette lighters.

Couldn’t some of the items gone to the grandchildren. How hard up is the family for money?

What would you do with your grandparents’ rings?

[quote]What would you do with your grandparents’ rings?

I'd hang them from the nipples, but they'd shock the children.

What was the "Clif" key to?

If they're concerned about the preservation of history, this is a better option than letting grandkids and great-grandkids eventually squabble over (or neglect) these objects. They could sell much more than this tiny collection and would still, between their genomes and memories, 'own' far more of their parents than the public could ever purchase.

Sell all that stuff. Trinkets and baubles. In a few years, no one will remember any of those ancient stars.

[quote]Sell all that stuff. Trinkets and baubles. In a few years, no one will remember any of those ancient stars.

Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and The African Queen say otherwise, r27.

Never heard of those

Nobody expects much of you, r29.

R28, “The Big Sleep”, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” and “The Caine Mutiny”, as well.

R25, it was a gold key cover presented to Bogart from someone named Clif. I wonder what the dates, a thirty year span, referred to.

The length of their friendship, I assume, r32.

R33, who is Clif? They must have met early in Bogart’s career, given the first date. I was thinking maybe an agent or manager.

r34 - Clifton Webb, Tony. See r33 and r25.

What about her percolator?

For the High Point? It was freeze-dried instant coffee.

You could never get that rich flava from a percolator!

Boy are you stupid R7.

Lot closed - Winning bid:$158,750

ESTIMATE: $100,000 - $200,000(36 bids)

You keep the wedding rings and maybe one or two other items for sentimental reasons, and you sell the rest. It's obviously they're not going to wear them, why not get some money for the jewelry while you can?

What’s so hard to believe? Betty’s been dead for almost a decade, her percolator sadly silent.

At least they auctioned off tasteful, elegant things that the buyers, no doubt affluent homosexuals, will treasure. It could have been worse — like Betty’s huge smelly shoes, the sort of thing you see on some of these auctions.

I’d sell some stuff and buy a beautiful vacation home

[quote]—Elisabeth I fucked Elvis Scott

Who is Elisabeth Scott?

Thanks R43. I'm a big fan of hers but somehow never spell her name right!

[quote] I imagine the kids inherited a very nice chunk of change. Are they so money hungry they are selling hugely sentimental personal pieces from one of the most iconic Hollywood romances?

"The kids" are in their 70s. They can't take any of this stuff with them. And we have no idea what they might be keeping.

Bacall left three children, six grandchildren and there are now two great grandchildren.

Stephen Bogart’s third wife, Carla, posted this on Facebook, which defies what has been published for decades, that the whistle bracelet was placed with Bogart’s ashes.

“The whistle bracelet was never buried with Bogie. Betty kept it...and Steve held onto all these years.“

I don't see any of the tulip tumblers anywhere...the kids might be too attached to those, though...

I like the heart pendant. But even the wedding rings are hard to use. Some kind of movie or fashion museum might be grateful of the donation - but beyond that they’re unextraordinary wedding rings. And in the meantime they could pay for a few months of good quality nursing care, or education for greatgrandkids.

Bacall wasn't left a staggering fortune by Bogart and she lived almost another sixty years. The price of things go up!

Other than the 20 million for her Dakota apartment, I get the feeling Betty didn't leave her kids a big pile of cash that was lying around.

R50, Estate taxes in NY are brutal. The $21 million her Dakota apartment sold for were greatly reduced.

That was the main reason for Jackie’s auction, to pay her NY estate taxes.

Though Jackie’s auction earned $34 million, JFK, Jr. and Caroline only received $100,000.00 each.

Sell it. I’d believe they kept what mattered to them. OP why do you care what strangers do?

The inscribed or engraved heart pendant was the coolest item. It was also the only item that sold above the estimate. Not sure why the estimate was so low on the pendant.

I admired Lauren Bacall until I read about her nastiness.

R53, It had coffee stains on it.

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^A stained headboard that Joan Collins included in her 2015 auction.

Someone actually purchased it, but for less than the estimated price.

R57, yeah that thing looked like Joan wiped her butt on it.

Gross Sales total: $435,350 not bad.

Joan Collin’s headboard is what inspired me to get a wooden bed.

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An auction of Bacall's things in 2015 garnered a few million too.

When you blow into the whistle bracelet, you can distinctly hear “deep brewed flavah.”

Bogie was cheap. Some of the jewelry he gave me he just grabbed out of Lauren's jewelry box. He didn't even try to hide the fact. He would just hand me a brown paper bag and say this is for you. He spent a weekend with me and Talulah in Del Mar and later sent us each a different set of her earrings. He personified class.