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Vol. 131, No. 1 - Waynesboro, Ga. 30830
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - $1.
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Hawkins inspects the signed Dave pot that will be auctioned Saturday.
FIRED UP
Collectors head to Burke to bid on rare pottery
A number of pots crafted by well-known artisans will be up for bid at Hawkins Auction
Company Saturday, including Dave pots, rare two-handled pots and decorated pieces.
By Anne Marie Kyzer
annemariek@thetruecitizen.com
A simple signature separates
this one from the rest and
could push the going price
upwards of $30,000.
On Saturday, several
earthen pots crafted by Dave,
a slave artisan, will be on the
auction block in Burke
County, one of them bearing
the cursive signature of the
Edgefield potter himself and
dated June 6, 1861. Auction
eer Greg Hawkins believes it
will fetch between $30,000
and $40,000 and he’s been
fielding calls all week from
potential buyers.
Dave turned out countless
pieces during the mid-1800s
at his master’s home place in
Edgefield, where the dense
clay made pottery production
an industry in itself.
“They turned out pottery
like Henry Ford turned out
Model Ts,” Hawkins quipped.
“But there are a lot fewer of
(the pieces) around now.”
And Dave carved his name
on just a fraction of the ones
he made.
“He probably just didn’t
have time to sign them, be
cause he was turning out so
many,” Hawkins said, guess
ing the slave worked more
than 10 hours a day at least
six days a week.
Collectors of Dave pottery,
including the likes of Oprah
Winfrey and Bill Cosby, covet
those signed pieces most of
all. A signed Dave pot that
Hawkins auctioned here last
year brought $41,250.
Many of Dave’s pots bore
his signature slash marks, two
slashes along with dots for the
number of gallons the pot
would hold. Most of them
also include the initials L.M.,
those of his master Lewis
Miles.
The roughly three-gallon,
wide-mouthed signed pot in
Hawkins’ hands will be the
first to go among the tables
of pottery he plans to offer to
bidders this weekend. The
auction will also include sev
eral unsigned Dave pots, a
couple of them dated May
1852, along with more than
two dozen pieces dating as far
back as 1837. The lower end
pieces are expected to fetch
around $1,000.
SHOW & TELL
Pottery enthusiasts will turn out in large numbers at Hawkins
Auction Company on Highway 56 North on Saturday for a special
“show and tell” event in conjunction with the auction.
Collectors and others will have a chance to display pieces, not
necessarily for sale, so others can take a peek. Hawkins also
encourages others to bring and show off antique pottery they have
on hand, whether they think it’s valuable or not.
“It might help people learn something new or people might drag
something out of the woodwork they didn’t know they had,” he
said, noting the pottery will be roped off and protected from han
dling.
For more information, contact Hawkins at 706-466-3674.
Note: The pottery show and tell will only be available Saturday
afternoon, not during the auction preview hours on Friday after
noon. Pottery in the auction will be sold at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Waynesboro police
Lodge tapped for assistant chief
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
The Waynesboro Police
Department now has its sec
ond in command.
Roosevelt Lodge, 62,
agreed Tuesday morning to
serve as the city’s assistant
police chief.
The Burke County
Sheriff’s Office investigator
was one of four applicants
and the first choice for in
terim police chief Alfonzo
Williams.
"He is settled and has a vast
amount of experience,”
Chief Williams said, listing
off more than 30 years of law
enforcement work in Cali
fornia, including the opera
tion of his own private in
vestigations office. “I think
our experiences will comple
ment one another ... that’s the
main reason he rose above
the others.”
Lodge, who is the son of
late civil rights leader
Herman Lodge, returned to
Burke County after his re
tirement and has worked at
the sheriff’s office for the
past two-and-a-half years.
He also came with “glow
ing recommendations” from
the District Attorney’s office,
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Roosevelt Lodge
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Armed with assault rifles
Four sought in
home invasion
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
A Waynesboro man was bound with duct tape and tele
phone cords after four men rushed into his home with as
sault rifles.
According to Waynesboro police, the 51-year-old victim
heard his backdoor alarm around 3 a.m. Thursday and got
out of bed to see the masked men coming into his East Sev
enth Street home.
According to investigator Bobbie Jockel, he was tied up
and left on the floor while the assailants ransacked his bed
room.
One offender, who spoke with an accent the victim couldn’t
identify, made small talk during the attack, telling him he
needed the money for his children and asking the victim if
he had children of his own. He also told the victim he
wouldn’t get hurt as long as he did what he was told.
Approximately 20 minutes after the robbers left, the man
managed to get his hands free and call for help.
Investigators searched the area and saw footprints in the
wet grass outside but were unable to locate the suspects, who
were all described as black males with bandanas covering
their faces.
According to the report, nearly $1,000 was stolen, as well
as a cell phone, GPS unit, two cameras and credit cards.
Investigator Jockel said the robbers left behind a blue lighter
and roll of duct tape, both of which are being processed for
evidence. Anyone with information is asked to call 706-
554-8029 or leave an anonymous message on the crime tip
hotline at 706-554-8021.
Noturious murderer
dies in prison
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
The man convicted of one Burke County’s most heinous
murders is dead.
William Stanley “Bubba” Redd, 48, died earlier this month
at the Augusta State Medical Prison after spending nearly 24
years behind bars.
While officers here have heard he died of cancer. The True
Citizen was not able to confirm the cause of death as of
Tuesday afternoon.
Redd and co-defendent John Calvin Jones were arrested in
1987 for the killing of 23-year-old Rodney Dickey, who
offered the pair a ride when he saw them hitchhiking along
Highway 56 on his way home from Augusta.
Redd and Jones would later admit to kidnapping, robbing
and sexually assaulting Dickey, then tossing him into a pond
off Seven Oaks Road. At the time. Sheriff Greg Coursey
said he believed Dickey was alive when he was bound with
clothesline and thrown into the water with cinderblocks an
chored to his body. Investigators said he was killed for a
dollar, a ring and a necklace.
Jones pleaded guilty in 1989 and agreed to testify against
Redd. He is currently serving three life sentences at Wash
ington State Prison.
After eight years of stalls. Redd took a plea bargain in
1995 that saved him from a jury and the death penalty. After
pleading guilty to murder, armed robbery, kidnapping and
aggravated sodomy, he was sentenced to two life sentences
plus two 20-year sentences.
According to the original court documents, he would have
been eligible for parole consideration in 2020.
William “Bubba” Redd is escorted to the courthouse
during a failed attempt in 2000 to revoke his 1995
guilty pleas. He claimed he was under the influence
of medication when he entered the pleas.
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