Old Enron signs go on the market

HOUSTON -- Would anybody like to buy a vowel?

Two of Enron's trademark "tilted-E" signs, removed from marble bases outside the bankrupt energy giant's downtown Houston headquarters earlier this month, will be sold at an auction Dec. 3-5.

Also for sale: a black rotating tilted-E that once lit up part of the lobby.

One of the oft-photographed vowels will be on the block at about noon on each of the three days of the auction, said a spokeswoman for DoveBid, the company that will conduct the sale.

The two stainless steel E's, accentuated with red, green and blue colored lights, and the black rotating E are being auctioned to raise money for creditors.

A steel E without the colored lights that used to be outside another Enron building sold for $44,000 at another auction in September.