http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2012/10/22/can-you-really-own-that/ Where Hunters Gather Thu, 23 May 2013 18:38:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2012/10/22/can-you-really-own-that/comment-page-1/#comment-1342526 Deanna Dahlsad Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:45:10 +0000 http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/?p=32655#comment-1342526 Thanks for the info, Andrew!

]]> http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/2012/10/22/can-you-really-own-that/comment-page-1/#comment-1342258 Andrew L. Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:40:31 +0000 http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/?p=32655#comment-1342258 Re: “A recent case of this involves Mary Pickford’s Oscar; when her heirs wanted to sell it, they had to offer it to academy officials for $10. (No details why the court ordered the $10 on the stated $1; inflation, perhaps?)”
The amount was originally set at $10, and lowered to $1 in the ROFR contract in the 1980s at some point.

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