NEWS photo Terry Peters SEAHAWK Auctions’ Ted Pappas, left, and Jeff Harris show some Inuit artifacts that sold at aucticn last week- end. Their owner, a young man who was broke, is now a happy man. Rare alti Michael Becker News Editor ; WSO SEVERAL owners of .-.. mative artifacts realized : major windfalls at auc- tion last week. : "North Vancouver-based Seahawk - Auctions held its _)semi-annual auction of native grtifacts in Burnaby. Seahawk principal Ted Pappas, an estate agent and auctioneer, and appraiser Jeff Harris: say two Significant lots passed through their hands last week. One was a group of two ° ‘masks, an’ atl-atl ‘(a spear throws cr) and a bow. . The items initially:came to ~ the attention of Seahawk when - Pappas was tpped off bya “picker” | at_-a < garage’ sale. .. Pickers source items and work for finder’s fees. Garage sales are prime picking grounds. ON “picker s saw the masks, atl- au and bow, ata garage, sale early in April. Said Pep things bur as, “He sees these ¢ doesn’t have a . knowledge in native art, but he knew they were good.” The seller was clearing out the attic of his great-grand- mother’s house that he had just inherited. The owner was- n’t sure about the value of the artifacts. The picker called Pappas. Pappas rushed to the sale and’ offered to auction them. He estimated on the spot that he could get $25,000 for the lot, but the young man wanted to sell immediately. Pappas arranged a private treaty sale with several U.S. ° dealers. Right away he received two initial offers for $25,000 US. Pappas pushed him’to reconsider the sale and hold off for last Sunday’s auc- tion. The man was broke and needed “moncy. immediately. ; Seahawk provided him with ‘a ere nee we meee ny Great Canadian TERED VUE IO Lonsdale & 13th, hy throw Since 1978 LTD. ‘See the Ne rth ‘Shore’ s only careridge superstore! Inkjet refills from $2.50- Refill kits from $17.00: ~ Goa Copiers rom $45.00 ‘asp pile ce HH over | $28 . Special o1er = Printer Repair cash advance. The lor went on to sell for $115,000 (plus a 10% buyer’s premium). The items were collected in 1917 by the man’s great-grandmother, the first school teacher in the Aleutian Islands. from about 1880 and are from the south Yukon River area, from the Upiq culture. “The Inuit masks are better than the one I saw in che Smithsonian,” said Pappas. . Meanwhile two pairs of moccasins realized their own- ers a sizable cheque. Pappas received a call from an antique dealer in West Vancouver last December. The customers, an elderly West Vancouver couple who wanted cash to buy a car, had brought in two pairs of moccasins for an opinion on value. Another dealer. in Vancouver had been approached and made an offer FA Entrance in reas lane The artifacts date’ tifacts auctioned off ‘(about $1,500 for both pairs). The great-grandfather of -one of the owners collected the moccasins on a journey to North America in 1825. They are from the Great Lakes arca. Said Pappas, “That’s incredibly early for a journey by a German tourist to North America. This perked my cars immediately. Once you get into that era there are very few surviving examples of any- thing. The competition when it came to the moccasins on Sunday was pretty fierce I “would say,” said Pappas. A collector from Calgary bought one pair for $17,000 (plus 10% buyer’s premium) and the ‘second pair for $23,000 ‘(plus 10% buyer's premium). Said. 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Wilkinson said Moroury left Canada on March 30. In 1994, Moroury and his family were denied a refugee claim based on the family’s inability to sup- port themselves. Wilkinson said privacy legislation prevented him from providing more information. Moroury had a visitor's permit to be in Canada from June 7 to June 14. Wilkinson said that people removed from = Canada’ required ministerial consent to come back, something that appears not to have been done. Moroury and his family were under a removal order from: Canada when Moroury was charged with the planned shooting of Mohammad - Mirhadi in 1997. Moroury was born in England, has a younger- sister and an franian father and Italian mother. The family came to Canada in 1994 after eight: years in California. 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