1962 painting and old photos for auction

[Patrick Neve]

With permission from Gary Sohmers and the owner, here are bits of our
correspondence regarding an upcoming auction.

From: Trevor Jenkins <Trevo...@direcway.com>
> Hi,
>
> I have a painting done by Zappa in 1962 titled Wiliams Special #2. My
mom
> dated Ronnie Williams from his band and he did it for her. It is an
> abstract with a large signature signed Williams Special #2 Frank Zappa
1962.
> I also have 7 pictures taken from a concert in LAncaster in 62. Frank
was
> doing do wop at the time and has a pompadore. I currently have the item
on
> consignment with Gary Sohmers from the antique road show on PBS. A link
to
> your site made me look him up. Would you have any interest or know of
> anyone. The photos would include a release for reproduction.
>
> Thanks

The site Trevor refers to is this:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~splat/Antiques_Roadshow.html

I asked for jpegs to show the world, and he said that samples will be
shown at the time of auction, which is March 15th. I emailed Gary
Sohmers, and he had seen my site, too. Here's the response I got from
him:

From: Wex...@aol.com
To: sp...@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Subject: Re: Zappa Painting for sale (fwd)

HI

I did have your website bookmarked and was going to make sure you got the
info ....

The website <A HREF="www.allcollectors.com">www.allcollectors.com</A> will
go
live with all the pictures and
descriptions on March 15 and bidding will close on Sunday March 30.
Bidding
is by phone, email and IM on that evening. The photographic slides are
being
sold as a separate lot from the oil painting.

Any help getting the word out will be greatly appreciated ... it's too bad
someone can't buy it and donate itto the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and/or
start a Zappa Art Collection someplace now that we know there are many
pieces
out there to be found yet.

Thanks
Gary Sohmers
508-788-5474