''By accident I went beyond the reserve price and I got the harp,'' she said, with a low laugh. ''I saw the reserve price and knew it was out of my range, so I thought I'd just have the fun of bidding and let someone else have the harp.'' Clogston said from her home in Boerne, Tex., outside San Antonio. ''I was aware of the reputation of Lyon & Healy's gold harp,'' Mrs. Clogston, a 78-year-old widow with a passion for folk harps, had not planned to buy it. It was a beautiful harp, to be sure, one of the few covered in 24-karat gold leaf. Marijo Clogston made a mistake while browsing on eBay, the Internet auction site, and found herself the shocked owner of a $15,000 antique Lyon & Healy harp. Over the next few decades, and especially after the fire, his name disappeared from company documents and his contribution to harp design was forgotten. Durkee's own designs, and he won several patents just as the 19th century came to a close. Some elegant concert harps were built from Mr. Not much is known about him - at one point, a fire destroyed company records - except that he supervised workers who assembled harps. IN the 1890's, a man named George Durkee lived in Chicago and worked as a shop foreman at Lyon & Healy Harps Inc.
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