2014 Haven FundraiserAuction #24-Rachel Readman 4 Remarques in Just After Sunset

[Randall Flagg]

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TheDarkTower.org is proud to be the EXCLUSIVE site to auction this new, unique and fine Collectible item.
For your consideration is a set of FOUR ORIGINAL drawings by renowned artist Rachel Readman!
All four pieces are drawn in a single 1st edition Collectors Set of Stephen King’s “Just After Sunset”. Each piece of art depicts a scene from one of the Short stories in the book.
Rachel will sign each of the pieces individually.




Thanks to artist Rachel Readman for the art. Rachel is a renowned artist and sculptor and a long supporter of the Haven Fund through TDT.org. More of her work can be found at www.RachelReadman.com
Special thanks to member StroppyGoblin for providing the book.

[stroppygoblin]

Thanks for the official announcement RF.

As the contributor of the book, I had the honour of suggesting which stories/elements that Rachel should draw and I selected the following:

1. The cat crawling inside the hit man (The cat from Hell)
2. At the Party, viewing the destruction of manhattan by atomic bomb (graduation afternoon)
3. Curtis Johnson Crawling through the toilet to escape being locked in (A very tight place)
4. Richard Sifkitz on his bike with the mural in front of him (The Stationary Bike)

I think everyone will agree, Rachel has done an amazing job on these! Go forth and bid!

[bdwyer19]

Simon - Why is the bidding shown as a 'Private Listing'? Obviously this auction is legit, but when I see private bidders, it always seems a little sketchy.

[Ari_Racing]

Those are AMAZING remarques!

[jonahwriter]

Absolutely amazing and stunning! Nice work Rachel and Stroppy!

p.s. I'll be cheeky and say I'd love to see a Gingerbread Girl and N remarque as well! Then it's my favourite 6 stories lol

[stroppygoblin]

Simon - Why is the bidding shown as a 'Private Listing'? Obviously this auction is legit, but when I see private bidders, it always seems a little sketchy.

I just followed the example of previous HF auctions. I think this is becoming the default now. Plus a lot of collectors prefer to remain anonymous on charity auctions. People outside of this forum will also be bidding remember.

[stroppygoblin]

Absolutely amazing and stunning! Nice work Rachel and Stroppy!

p.s. I'll be cheeky and say I'd love to see a Gingerbread Girl and N remarque as well! Then it's my favourite 6 stories lol

FOUR is not enough???? (I don't think there were any blank pages left!) .
I actually submitted a longer list for Rachel to choose from and those two were I believe next on the list

[Stockerlone]

SUPERNICE !!!

[Ben Staad]

Very good job by everyone who contributed to putting this together.

[jonahwriter]

Absolutely amazing and stunning! Nice work Rachel and Stroppy!

p.s. I'll be cheeky and say I'd love to see a Gingerbread Girl and N remarque as well! Then it's my favourite 6 stories lol

FOUR is not enough???? (I don't think there were any blank pages left!) .
I actually submitted a longer list for Rachel to choose from and those two were I believe next on the list

They just happen to be my 6 favourite stories in the collection - I'd love to see those 2 as well - but of course 4 is enough. It's awesome!

[Merlin1958]

Amazing job, Rachel!!!

[Lookwhoitis]

Simon - Why is the bidding shown as a 'Private Listing'? Obviously this auction is legit, but when I see private bidders, it always seems a little sketchy.

I just followed the example of previous HF auctions. I think this is becoming the default now. Plus a lot of collectors prefer to remain anonymous on charity auctions. People outside of this forum will also be bidding remember.

I think you run the risk of alienating potential bidders. Often when "private auction" is selected folks stay away, as a kneejerk response, because of some (other) unscrupulous characters and the frauds they have committed with the privitization feature.

[Lookwhoitis]

Cool remarques by the way! I'm afraid, with the recent offerings, my ability to buy in the charity auctions may be done. (because of being able to afford it! Or even outbid some of the Big Fish)

[Shannon]

Beautiful work.

[Randall Flagg]

Simon - Why is the bidding shown as a 'Private Listing'? Obviously this auction is legit, but when I see private bidders, it always seems a little sketchy.

I just followed the example of previous HF auctions. I think this is becoming the default now. Plus a lot of collectors prefer to remain anonymous on charity auctions. People outside of this forum will also be bidding remember.

I think you run the risk of alienating potential bidders. Often when "private auction" is selected folks stay away, as a kneejerk response, because of some (other) unscrupulous characters and the frauds they have committed with the privitization feature.

Stroppy obviously didn't intentionally make the bids private. Now that the auction is up, he can't change it. He could cancel the auction and start again, but why?

[stroppygoblin]

I'm not sure I understand the concern here? If this was an auction we had no visibility of and the final amount was going into an anonymous sellers pocket then fine. I as the seller have full visibility of who is buying, the final amount will go to RF as a payment from me and everyone will know what the final bid was.

I don't see the problem, private auctions have not caused any issues on any of the previous auctions, so why should this be any different?

[The Library Policeman]

Nice work Simon and Rachel. Like it a lot!!

[bdwyer19]

I'm not sure I understand the concern here? If this was an auction we had no visibility of and the final amount was going into an anonymous sellers pocket then fine. I as the seller have full visibility of who is buying, the final amount will go to RF as a payment from me and everyone will know what the final bid was.

I don't see the problem, private auctions have not caused any issues on any of the previous auctions, so why should this be any different?

The other HF auctions were not private, though. I know this auction is legit. I just brought it up, because typically if I see a private auction, I won't even bother with it.

[Rachel Readman]

Good to see this underway, thanks to Simon, Bill, Jerome erm did I miss anyone??

I hope I done the Haven Fund proud and that the auction raises lots of money. Bid bid bid, serve the Haven Foundation, all things do, see it says so in my sig so it must be true.

With regard to the auction being private, didn't Ebay bring in some policy some time ago where all auctions were private so nobody but the seller could see the buyers names? For anyone who is reading this and considering a bid but not a member here, let me as the artist state that there is no risk, everything is absolutely above board and legitimate and if you have any concerns you will find my email address on my website rachelreadman.com or blackrookstudios.com where you can contact me with any questions or concerns.

Thanks everyone,
Rachel

[The Library Policeman]

Good to see this underway, thanks to Simon, Bill, Jerome erm did I miss anyone??

I hope I done the Haven Fund proud and that the auction raises lots of money. Bid bid bid, serve the Haven Foundation, all things do, see it says so in my sig so it must be true.

With regard to the auction being private, didn't Ebay bring in some policy some time ago where all auctions were private so nobody but the seller could see the buyers names? For anyone who is reading this and considering a bid but not a member here, let me as the artist state that there is no risk, everything is absolutely above board and legitimate and if you have any concerns you will find my email address on my website rachelreadman.com or blackrookstudios.com where you can contact me with any questions or concerns.

Thanks everyone,
Rachel

I think ebay keep bidders id's private now, Rachel. They include a couple of letters of the bidders username and asterix out the rest. A private auction is done by the seller and every bidder will show up as "private".

[stroppygoblin]

Ah! In that case this is my mistake. I had assumed that because the previous auctions had the bidders name astrix'd out I thought the auctions had been made private and ticked the box on this one.

Apologies to all.

[Merlin1958]

All this jibber jabber is not bidding!!! More bidding, less talking!! LOL

[Frankie]

Beautiful remarques Miss Readman. I was going to leave this one for the Brits, but if they don't get to work soon, I will.

[east-tennessee]

Very Nice Stuff There Rachel...............
Hope the price shoots the MOON...!!!!!!!!!!
Brian.......

[herbertwest]

Very nice pieces (although I think that the last one is quite "simple")