I was just curious if the Obit was our George Lander, closer friend of Jim Kelly.
Serbus,
Raimey
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Yes, the Obituary is that of "our" George Lander. I've known him for 45+ years and my office was less than 1/2 mile from his for almost 30 years.
FlyChamps (aka Bob), Raimey and Stan et al;
I am saddened to learn of George's death. I remember going by his real estate office maybe 2006 and viewing some of his guns and rifles. I also remember he had an assortment of old land rovers in the parking lot--2 or 3 I suppose.
Stan; you mentioned seeing George at the 2007 Charlton Hall auction on Gervais Street in Columbia, SC. I remember seeing George there as well as Raimey, Diggory and some others at this auction. That was the period of time when vintage guns were bringing significant prices and Charlton Hall wanted to get in on the "rush to buy them". Unfortunately the very next year we had a world wide economic fall.
What surprised me most of all about the Charlton Hall auction then was that they had and auctioned a David Shepherd original African Elephant painting. I was astonished that such a painting would appear in a one horse town like Columbia, SC ( I live a few minutes away in the red hills and forest). I seem to remember that the Shepherd painting brought a couple of hundred thousand dollars---do any of you remember what was the hammer price--I remember it was a telephone bidder who bought it. I would liked to have met David Shepherd and ridden on his own private steam railroad in England. I suspect Ole George would have like to have met David Shepherd as well.
https://davidshepherd.org/shop/study-of-elephants/Kindest Regards;
Stephen Howell
