Festival Auction...

I wasn't able to attend the fest, but am enjoying all the posts and photos some of you have posted so far.

I am very curious about the Barnabus Portrait - Who bought it - how much was the final bid?

Did anyone get any photos of the event?  Also what else was up for auction?

Please let us know.

Have a great day!

~JosettesMusicBox

A nice lady from Utah bought it for $13,000! 

Oh.  My.  God.

This was for charity, right?  And if so, what charity was the lucky recipient?

The auction of the portrait was one of the highlights of the weekend. There was so much energy in the room, everyone on the edge of their seats,  cheering as the bidding went higher and higher -

The proceeds were for Alzheimer's Research.......a cause very important to many of us...

A nice lady from Utah bought it for $13,000!

Oh, wow!! 
well, I knew it would go for a lot so I'm not really surprised, shocked, but not surprised. At least it went for a good cause. 

a lady bought the painting that was originally used as the cover artwork of the first marilyn ross novel.

it's a painting of victoria in front of collinwood.it's very stylized and 1960's and absolutely gorgeous!

i so wanted it!i think she paid about $700.00 for it.

Here are some other things in the auction I recall being in the auctions:
A lot of the things auctioned this year were from Dan Curtis' personal items. Among them, his coffee cup with "Dan" in gothic script, his copies of the books "Burnt Offerings", "A Biography of Vlad Tepes" (the historic Dracula ), a copy of John Gielgud's autobiography signed by him to Dan; Dan's leather jacket; an award from the Horror, Fantasy and SciFi film association in the shape of the robot from Metropolis; a framed copy of his acknowledgement for an Emmy nomination; many files of episode summary's on DS; and some scripts, one each of Dark Shadows and the Night Stalker. Some other things I saw were some bricks from the original "Old House"; a few of the Majestic figures of Barnabas and Quentin; a pair of vampire contact lenses and also a set of vampire fangs from the '91 series; a crew member's official baseball cap from the 2004 pilot; author Dan (aka Marilyn) Ross's leather tote file, a vintage Newsweek with Donna McKechnie on the cover while she was performing in A Chorus Line; and an autographed picture of Geoffrey Scott, aka Sky Rumson. Well, as Bubba Blue might say, "That's about all." 
Michael   

PS: Festival report coming soon, to a Dark Shadows board near you...

Okay, so I'm one of those crazy people who would love to have a brick from the Old House. LOL! 

Okay, so I'm one of those crazy people who would love to have a brick from the Old House. LOL! 

Hell, I think I should auction off some of the roof slates I got at Seaview, LOL! 

A nice lady from Utah bought it for $13,000! 

Indeed, that was an exciting auction!  I was on the edge of my seat (and not just because I had to pee, LOL!)

Must be nice to have 'disposable' income, LOL!  I could get out of debt entirely AND have airfare for next year's Fest in LA! 

Okay, so I'm one of those crazy people who would love to have a brick from the Old House. LOL! 

I think the brick sold for $80. I was surprised it didn't go for more -

Renee and I guessed the portrait would go for $10,000 so we were just a tad off. I also thougt the brick would go for more. I guessed around $200 but it came in at far less.