Jack Kerouacs Leica IIc Sold At Auction

[CameraQuest]

$6500 - about 10x over estimate
the power of Jack

I wonder what other photo gear he owned.


https://auction.universityarchives.com/auction-lot/jack-kerouacs-personally-owned-used-on-the-road-e_9CD406C818

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter sold for over $250,000 back in 2009. He turned around and bought another for under $30.
I don't know if any of the Kerouac machines have sold or if they remain at the Kerouac house in Florida. I'm surprised his Leica sold for so little.
Phil Forrest

 

[agentlossing]

Shocked at the low value.

 

[Darthfeeble]

He didn't use the Leica to write his work, that might explain the price.

 

[xayraa33]

A IIc from a batch of nearly 10,000 made between 1948 to 1951

Around 11,000 were made in total.. yet the IIc is not that common today...I wonder if many were converted to a IIIc or a IIIf?

 

[CameraQuest]

Shocked at the low value.

the auction didn't get much publicity.

Jack's copy of Alan Watts book THE ART OF ZEN was estimated at $300 and sold for $8000!

 

[splitimageview]

some cool stuff in that auction, wish I had known about it!

 

[Larry Cloetta]

I didn't hear about it either. I was on the road.

 

[css9450]

Maybe that price includes an annual CLA for the forseeable future?

 

[Ambro51]

I think he wrote “On the Road” without pause on a long roll of paper. Weird dude.

 

[agentlossing]

I didn't hear about it either. I was on the road.

Zing!

- Andrew

 

[Bob Michaels]

...... I don't know if any of the Kerouac machines have sold or if they remain at the Kerouac house in Florida. .....

Phil: here's a link https://www.kerouacproject.org/history/ to a photo of a typewriter at the house Kerouac lived in during his time in Orlando.

 

[Horatio]

I didn't hear about it either. I was on the road.

😀

Good one.