E197 - How to sell a dinosaur. Part III of the Paddy Meade Triptych, Ireland's greatest auctioneers

That Great Business Show

E197 - How to sell a dinosaur. You will never hear a business podcast like this elsewhere.

Paddy Meade, former Dep. Chair and CEO of worldwide auction house Bonhams, is probably the world's best known seller of dinosauria. Paddy was asked to sell a dinosaur that had been pledged by a Creationist property developer (they believe the world is just 6,000 years old) as collateral in a failed property deal. When things went bust the dinosaur headed for the salesroom.

This dinosaur, had spent five years being reconstructed, but still wasn't all there and needed some more bits to make him whole. And if your dino isn't whole, where do you go to buy bare bones? At the dinomarket of course (we kid you not!). What you learn on That Great Business Show.

And there was the red copper Chinese dish, used for serving crab legs, owned by the family that started the Pony Express, that was so valuable that it had to have its own seat in Business Class on an airline to London. Wait'll you hear what happened to it.

And then there was the original Lion's costume from the iconic movie 'The Wizard of Oz' that finally sold for..?

There's another fascinating story about Muhamad Ali's robe, worn for the George Foreman fight, and what the auctioneers found stitched into that robe...

And John Travolta's suit from 'Saturday Night Fever'...

What happens when you buy very expensive wine that has gone off..?

His third choice for his 'hire in a heartbeat' is Cassandra Hatton, currently working in Sotheby's.

---

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.