It's times like this I wish I had an extra $60,000 to throw about. That's the opening bid (at this hour, unoffered) in an online auction of Walker Edmiston's Beany & Cecil memorabilia.
The late Mr. Edmiston was a brilliant actor, voice performer and puppeteer and in the fifties, he spent some time puppeteering for Bob Clampett on Time for Beany and Thunderbolt the Wonder Colt. His estate (or someone) is selling off all the neat stuff he saved from those gigs, including actual hand puppets and set pieces. Wonderful stuff.
In other news, you can also own the Emmy Award that Fred deCordova won for producing The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. You can also bid on many of the original stop-motion figures built for George Pal's Puppetoon series…
There are many priceless TV artifacts over there, especially to please a Star Trek fan. Thanks to Phil De Croocq for letting me know about some of this.