death, on Jun 10 2007, 01:41 AM, said:
will there be `model` saltergates on sale?
will bits of saltergate be on sale to the general public?
i would dearly like to buy one of the wooden bench seats from the wing stand.
Models: interesting. The Danbury Mint do them for certain clubs; £82.50. My feeling is that not enough folk would buy them at that price to make them available at that price. They are £82.50 to sides with fan bases upwards of 30,000. I wonder how many they have to sell to make it worth producing one? 500? I think Jim Brown has been in conversation with local artists regarding pictures; No reason why he can't ask them if they know of any likely sculptors.
Bits: Alan Stevenson is the man who managed to sell the hand dryers in the ladies' toilets to Coventry fans when they left Highfield Road. Whereas you or I might look at the old place and think "Waller, Halifax, last minute" he seems to look around thinking "How much will
that fetch?"
Benches: The tops are certainly salvagable, but the support bits might be quite site-specific. I can see a run of it might sit on new legs in someone's garden, under the gazebo made from sheets of old asbestos... Well, perhaps not, but... I imagine if you went up the Monday after the last home game and said "Here's a tenner, and I've brought my own saw..." (semi-jest; Stevo charged folk at Cov a fee for the item and a fee for getting it out for them, if they couldn't.)