<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">It's been less than a year since Allen Iverson left Philadelphia for the cold, snowy mountains of Denver. Apparently the eight-time All-Star's moving truck was too full the day he headed west, so he was forced to part with a few of his valuable items. Yesterday, the items left at Iverson's 14,000-square-foot home in Villanova were auctioned to the public by Barry S. Slosberg Inc. in Port Richmond. About four dozen people bid on items from mink coats to designer shoes to silk undergarments owned by the ex-76ers guard and his wife, Tawanna. Most of the items appeared to belong to Tawanna, who accompanied the 2001 Most Valuable Player to Denver, but was rumored last January to have consulted a divorce attorney. Even though Slosberg began the auction saying, "Today we are bidding on items from a former Philadelphia sports star, whose name I can't say," most in attendance knew to whom he referred. "Are you kidding me? Who else is a former Philadelphia sports star with this kind of stuff?" asked Amy Henderson, of Morristown, N.J., who successfully bid on a beige Chanel handbag worth $965. She paid only $475. "Yeah, it was definitely worth it," Henderson said. "You can't go to the chain stores and get this type of quality for these prices. If you like labels and designer stuff, this was a bargain and a half." Chanel, Gucci and Prada shoes originally priced at $500 to $600 went for $50 to $60, and some of Tawanna's designer purses, valued at more than $1,000, were let go for as low as $100. A gray-and-white chinchilla women's coat went for $1,700. And although the coat had a tear on the right sleeve, it was still worth close to $20,000, according to some bidders in attendance. Besides designer clothing, a child-sized, specially made Maserati sold for $2,900; a pair of bronze elephant fountains that sat next to the swimming pool went for $5,400; and a set of 3-foot-tall bronzed lion sculptures sold for $4,000. Ericka Williams, of North Philadelphia, has attended auctions for years, but yesterday's was perhaps the best for bargains she has seen in a while. Much to her surprise, she purchased one of Iverson's gray mink coats for $1,000. She said she would have paid at least $4,500 at a retailer. With a little pocket change left over, she added four fur hats, a brown, leather cape and another white mink jacket. She said she probably would sell two of the hats, but keep everything else. "I knew I was going to come across some good stuff today, just because I had heard that it was going to be some of Iverson's things here," Williams said. Hours before the auction began, tags that read "This item withdrawn from sale at the request of the owner" were put on two sets of Bentley and Rolls-Royce wheels, as well as three mink coats that apparently belonged to Iverson.</div> Source: Philadelphia Daily News
