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The E-Sylum: Volume 25, Number 45, November 6, 2022, Article 21

COLIN POWELL MEDALS, MEMENTOS UP FOR SALE

The sale of the estate of General Colin Powell includes many medals awarded to him over his long career. -Editor

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Colin Powell's career spanned some of the most significant moments of the last 40 years so it's no surprise that an auction of items from his estate reflects that: gifts and medals from foreign dignitaries and presidents, photos of his swearing-in as secretary of state.

But it might be the more whimsical items that better tell the story of what kind of man he was: the Star Wars lightsaber given to him by George Lucas, a race car helmet, the memorabilia connected to the Buffalo Soldiers, the 19th-century African American Army regiments that Powell championed throughout his career.

In all, nearly 400 items big and small, momentous and mundane, are up for auction with proceeds to benefit the America's Promise Alliance — which Powell once chaired — and the Colin Powell School at the City College of New York, his alma mater.

It's really a capsule of American history in the last four or five decades, said Elizabeth Haynie Wainstein, owner and president of The Potomack Company, the auction house conducting the estate sale.

The auction is already underway and will run through Nov. 16. Bids can be placed online, and items can be viewed in person at the auction house in Alexandria.

A few items are already proving popular — a Baikal shotgun presented to Powell by Mikhail Gorbachev at a 1988 summit in Moscow had already received a $7,000 bid by Thursday afternoon, well above the $3,000 to $5,000 estimate given by the auction house.

The estimates, though, are for the intrinsic value of the items and do not account for how bidders value the fact that the items belonged to Powell and his wife, Alma.

"That's the unknown thing about provenance and auction," Haynie Wainstein said.

Powell died last year at the age of 84. He served as secretary of state during the first term of President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, including the Iraq War. Before that he served as national security adviser in the Reagan administration and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the George H.W. Bush administration, when Powell played a key role in the Persian Gulf War.

To read the complete article, see:
Medals, Mementos from Colin Powell Estate Go Up for Auction (https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/11/04/medals-mementos-colin-powell-estate-go-auction.html)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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