From: | Barry Brown | e-mail: | oldmill@kingston.net |
Subject: | RE: RE: Ace | Date: | Wed May 27 07:41:37 2015 |
Response to: | 5744 |
Ex AMCA prez Pete Gagan had Sigal's early FN 4. I just checked the America Auction results and was surprised how reasonable some of the prices were. Is the bubble finally bursting? ----- ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS ----- Jim, I haven't heard who purchased the Ellis ACE, but I can provide a little US history on the bike. Former AMCA president, Arthur Sigal (Easton, Pennsylvania)visited John in Cork where he purchased the ACE. That had to have been during the early 1980's because I remember going to Art for advice when I was laid off from my research job in 1985. When Art died, his family (who lived in Boston, used a high end art auction house, Skinner, to sell Art's bikes and early cars. A Seymour Holtzman brought me and Doc Patt into the scheme to advise on the sale. He flew us to Boston in his private plane. However Holtzman basically said he was going to buy everything. jay Leno was there and couldn't compete. Holtzman had a Tiffany lamp collection that was so extensive that he had his own catalog produced. When Seymour passed, the motorcycle collection was sold once more but I don't know who had what from Art's original collection. It was good to see John's ACE once more, even though I will probably never see it again. I believe it is the earliest ACE on record. ACEdoug ----- ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS ----- Hi Does anybody know who bought the 1920 Ace with sidecar at American Auctions. The bike was part of the John Ellis collection in Ireland from 1960 til 1988 I have his original photo album of all his bikes. There are photos and newspaper articles on the Ace in the album. I would make copies for the new owner Jim in Ireland |