Edison electric pen, $12,800, Nye & Company

An Edison electric pen, No. 8263 on wheel, including stand, wire and stencil, made in the late 1800s, sold for $12,800 at a Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction held April 26-28 by Nye & Company Auctioneers in Bloomfield, NJ. Also, a circa 1440 framed portion of leaf printed by Gutenberg from the Sloan-Krech copy of the Catholicon, published by Gutenberg in 1459, fetched $7,680; and a 19th or 20th century Louis XVI-style chinoiserie-decorated chest rose to $3,520.