Ernie Kovacs Props Go On Auction Block In Texas
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Ernie Kovacs Props Go On Auction Block In Texas
Props that 1950s TV comic Ernie Kovacs used go on the auction block this weekend in Texas.
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DALLAS (February 17, 2009)--Props used by 1950s television comedian Ernie Kovacs go up for auction this weekend in Texas.

The items made available by Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas will eyeglasses with images of eyes on the lenses when Kovacs was in character as a drunken poet.

The three gorilla masks used in comedy bits involving the "Nairobi Trio" will also be part of the auction online.

The estate of Kovacs and his late widow, actress and singer Edie Adams consigned the items.

Adams died in October at 81.

Kovacs died in a car accident in 1962.

He was 42.

Other items in the auction of music and entertainment memorabilia include items consigned by the daughter of "Frankenstein" actor Boris Karloff.

Those items include original photo negatives of Karloff in costume from the 1931 film "Frankenstein."
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