On 12/18/05 this neckerchief, a Lodge 61 Shaginappi N1 brought $1,025. I don’t know if this is a record for a silkscreen neckerchief but its right up there. This has been a hot area in part because people didn’t collect them. In days gone by, say the 1970s through the early 1990s, you couldn’t hardly give these away especially the silkscreened ones. Now as folks fill in their collections they’re trying to find these and they can’t.

When there’s a new price point for something like this at auction, I like to look at the third high bid to see if it was just two guys going crazy against each other. In this case though, the third high was at $978. The fourth high was at $55.