Re: Sue sale details!!

[Jeff Poling <jpoling@dinosauria.com>]

>Jeff Poling wrote:
> 
>>    $7.6 million was the top bid.  With the buyer's premium, the total
>> purchase price is $8.3 million.
>> 
>>    "Sue" was purchased by Richard Grey, president of the Art Dealers
>> Association, acting as agent for the Field Museum of Natural History in
Chicago.
>> 
>>    Backers for the purchase include McDonalds and Disney.
>
>Any idea what the angle is here? An odd match-up, to say the least. The
>"commercialization" of paleontology appears to have taken an unusual
>path...

   No idea.  Since the media office is closed, I'll just have to wait to
read the details in the papers like everyone else.  McDs and DW *will* get
replicas of "Sue" out of it, though.

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