E. Gary Gygax Sr. May Have Had Another, More Recent Will?

[Maxperson]

It's been a few months, and although the trial is over, things are still happening!

• On July 14th, Rob Kuntz made a claim against the estate for "physical property" as described in documents that were submitted to the court (and are, unfortunately, unavailable from the public website).
• Pursuant to a notice that was issued on July 10th, there was a motion hearing held on August 10th. Attended by attorneys Gorn (for Luke Gygax), Johnson (for Gail Gygax), and Koch (the personal representative for Gary's estate), this was presumably with regard to the aforementioned notice allowing Koch to sell off portions of the estate. The court signed an order that had been proposed, and there was a brief discussion of the schedule before a notation was made that a claimant had not been notified, with attorney Koch to notify the claimant via email. A subsequent hearing is scheduled for September 26th.
• Interestingly, attorney Koch also requested a hearing back on July 26th, and five days later a notice was made that there would be a hearing held on August 16th. Currently, however, no such hearing is shown on the docket; perhaps the August 10th meeting preempted the need for it?
• On August 11th, the court issued an order approving the motion of the personal representative (i.e. attorney Koch) to produce and sell assets from the estate.

So at this point, the major takeaways are 1) that pieces of Gary's estate are going to be sold off, presumably to raise revenue sufficient to deal with the "issues" previously mentioned with regard to the IRS, and 2) that Rob Kuntz is filing a claim for certain property that's part of the estate.

With regard to Kuntz's claim, my guess (and it's only a guess) is that this has to do with certain aspects of the game he ran for Gary (i.e. El Raja Key/Kalibruhn) and/or things that he might have contributed/made for the campaign that Gary ran for him (and several others, i.e the original World of Greyhawk). He's actually written about this on several occasions, most recently in The Return of Robilar, which is a fascinating glimpse into the earliest years of the hobby.

Do we know if Luke is going to be getting anything yet?

 

[Alzrius]

Do we know if Luke is going to be getting anything yet?

To my knowledge, we don't know that (or much else) yet.

 

[Alzrius]

Well, that didn't take long!

I just got an email from The Collector's Trove, run by Paul Stormberg, saying that the E. Gary Gygax Estate Auction will begin tonight, and run for the next week! Given the details of this case so far, I find it to be extremely likely that this is in conjunction with aforementioned developments regarding parts of the estate being given the court's go-ahead to be sold, presumably to pay off the IRS.

Skimming the list, there's nothing along the lines of unpublished manuscripts here, but still quite a bit of old TSR memorabilia!

 

[Maxperson]

Well, that didn't take long!

I just got an email from The Collector's Trove, run by Paul Stormberg, saying that the E. Gary Gygax Estate Auction will begin tonight, and run for the next week! Given the details of this case so far, I find it to be extremely likely that this is in conjunction with aforementioned developments regarding parts of the estate being given the court's go-ahead to be sold, presumably to pay off the IRS.

Skimming the list, there's nothing along the lines of unpublished manuscripts here, but still quite a bit of old TSR memorabilia!

Can you provide a link to the site with the list of stuff? I'd love to see what's there.

 

[Alzrius]

Can you provide a link to the site with the list of stuff? I'd love to see what's there.

I could, but then you might be the person I'm bidding against, which would make it harder for me to win.

All kidding aside, you can get a full listing in the attached PDF (which was sent with the email). Note that none of these are actually available to bid on yet; according to the email, they won't start putting things up until 7 PM EDT tonight, and they're going to stagger the releases over the next several hours. Everything should be available to bid on by midnight, and will close a week from today.

 

[Nikosandros]

Well, good luck to all the bidders! IMHO, it's a bit of a shame that the collection will be dispersed, but it is what it is.

 

[JEB]

I could, but then you might be the person I'm bidding against, which would make it harder for me to win.

All kidding aside, you can get a full listing in the attached PDF (which was sent with the email). Note that none of these are actually available to bid on yet; according to the email, they won't start putting things up until 7 PM EDT tonight, and they're going to stagger the releases over the next several hours. Everything should be available to bid on by midnight, and will close a week from today.

Huh, I hope the Chelain Chronicles wind up with some game historian who will make good use of them.

 

[Maxperson]

I could, but then you might be the person I'm bidding against, which would make it harder for me to win.

All kidding aside, you can get a full listing in the attached PDF (which was sent with the email). Note that none of these are actually available to bid on yet; according to the email, they won't start putting things up until 7 PM EDT tonight, and they're going to stagger the releases over the next several hours. Everything should be available to bid on by midnight, and will close a week from today.

I'm not going to be bidding, but there are a few things on there I wouldn't mind having!

 

[Alzrius]

Well, good luck to all the bidders! IMHO, it's a bit of a shame that the collection will be dispersed, but it is what it is.

My understanding is that this isn't the entirety of Gary's estate, as per an old Q&A Paul Stormberg did a few years ago.

 

[aramis erak]

Mostly looks to be minis and author copies. Some hard to find 'zine issues.