Milt and Mona Hinton Estate Sale

[paul secor]

A friend sent me news of this in an email. It seems sad to me, but I thought I'd post it in case anyone close to Queens, N.Y. might be interested.

http://www.luckyrabbitestatesales.com/upcomingsales.htm

[sgcim]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll be there.

[ejp626]

I mentioned it to a friend who lives in Queens. He's thinking of dropping by.

[l p]

>>>Hinton was also well known for his photography and amassed a collection of more than 60,000 images during his lifetime.

if these are in the sale, then whoever buys them is going to make a lot of money by selling them individually on ebay, if that's what they choose to do. like the burt goldblatt photos and negatives that have been selling on ebay for the past couple of years.

[Jim R]

Interesting to look through all the photos of the sale items.

Edited June 8, 2015 by Jim R

[medjuck]

I think that most of the photos are "housed in the Milton J Hinton Photographic Collection in Philadelphia". (From the book "Over Time, the Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton".)

[sgcim]

Medjuck was quite right about the photos. It turned out Milt's family didn't include any of the photos, or much of anything with Milt's handwriting in the estate sale.

Earlier in the day someone found one record with Milt's writing on it, and went into an ecstatic attack that could only be alleviated by a direct infusion of chlorpromazine...

By the time we arrived, the frenzied battles for Milt's record collection had subsided. One of the workers there told me how some lunatic dove off the top of the basement stairs at precisely 9:00am when the sale began, so he could have first shot at the records.

The head of the Community Association where Milt lived made a big scene about not being notified by the estate sale company that the sale was taking place.

The hapless worker told him to speak to the family about it, and leave him alone...

We got 7 CDs, 5 LPs and 2 cassette tapes for $25. I found one of Milt's amp covers lying around, and the guy had no idea what it was, so he gave it to me for $2

I was surprised to find that it was only about five miles from where I live, and the street sign says, "Milt Hinton Drive" on it!

[l p]

viewing those photos of the estate sale was very depressing, but in retrospect it would be kind of cool to have something like even an ordinary lamp that was owned by an important jazz musician.

[sgcim]

One guy was upset about the price of a book he wanted, and tried to chew the worker down on the price.

The worker lost his patience with the guy and said, 'You're not just buying a book- you're buying a book owned by someone very special!"