[2] Raised in what is now known as Elmwood Park, New Jersey (then East Paterson), Zoellner graduated from Lodi High School in 1950.
[3] By the time of his death, the firm based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, had $1.7 billion in assets under management and claimed never to have had a losing year since its establishment.
[2] Zoellner had been a resident of Cresskill, New Jersey, where he donated funds to build tennis courts and a baseball field.
[4] Zoellner had also contributed towards the establishment of a model train show held annually at the New York Botanical Garden.
At the time all of the major grill rarities were coming on the market and Zoellner had both the "means and the inclination" (to quote the Weill brothers) to obtain them.
Siegel's auction catalog was a 391-page work that included extensive description and documentation of the items, many of which were the "finest known" of their type, and sold for prices well above their nominal values.