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Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall
All prices include the buyer’s premium

Toulouse-Lautrec poster, 1840 Shaker sewing table, Nantucket curlew decoy,
$78,000, Poster Auctions Int’l $98,400, Morphy Auctions $108,000, Copley Fine Art

Henri de Toulouse- A circa 1840 Shaker The O’Brien-Nelson hol-
Lautrec’s 1894 poster seven-drawer, drop- low Nantucket curlew
titled Eldorado / Aristide leaf sewing table, decoy by carver Charles
Bruant sold for $78,000 attributed to Elder Coffin sold for $108,000
in Poster Auctions David Terry, sold at a Sporting Sale held
International’s Rare for $98,400 at a July 23 by Copley Fine
Posters Auction LXXXI Fine & Decorative Art Auctions in Hingham,
held July 21st in New Arts Auction held MA. Also, a quail hunting
York City. Also, Alphonse July 14-15 by watercolor painting by
Mucha’s four-panel set Morphy Auctions in Denver, PA. Also, a men’s Ogden M. Pleissner landed at $37,200; and
titled The Seasons (1896) 18kt gold Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Thomas Aquinas Daly’s Electric Mountain
knocked down for $43,200; Charles Loupot’s Quantieme Perpetual Automatique wristwatch garnered $16,800. It was a new world auction
full-scale maquette, a 1947 preliminary design with leather box knocked down for $73,800; record for the artist. Overall, the sale consisted
for St. Raphael, achieved $43,200; and Leonetto and a rare Tiffany Studios “Clematis” table of 296 lots, 94 percent of which sold. The
Cappiello’s dynamic design from 1928 for Porto lamp, signed on the shade and bronze base, lit auction grossed $957,000.
Pitters went for $21,600. up the room for $73,800.
Zhang Daqian painting,
Ten Cate painting, Agassiz pocket watch, $172,200, Clars Auction
$4,688, Bruneau & Co. $25,000, Doyle
An ink and
A fisherman- A rare rose gold open color on paper
themed painting face pocket watch painting by
by the Dutch with a “world time” Chinese artist
Impressionist face sold for $25,000 Zhang Daqian
Siebe Johannes in a Fine Jewelry (1899-1983),
Ten Cate (1858- Auction held July 29 titled Red Leaves and Bird, measuring 13 3/4
1908) sold for by Doyle in New inches by 32 inches, sold for $172,200 at an
$4,688 at an York City. Also, a auction held August 8-9 by Clars Auction
Estate Fine Art & gold, platinum, and Gallery in Oakland, CA. Also, a pair of Famille
Antiques Auction held August 27 by Bruneau & diamond necklace rose ruby-ground “Medallion” bowls with
Co. Auctioneers in Cranston, RI. Also, a slipped around a new DauGuang six-character mark, realized
Modernist depiction of an African American neck for $10,625; a Shreve & Co. gold link $159,900; and a Chinese blue and white
jazz band by Romare Howard Bearden necklace changed hands for $8,750; a Verdura “Lotus” vase, 14 1/2 inches tall, inscribed with
(NY/NC, 1911-1988), lithograph edition #129 gold curb link bracelet-watch knocked down for the Qian Long six-character seal mark, rose to
of 200, fetched $2,125; and an Abraham $8,750; and a Seaman Schepps gold and rock $110,700.
Lincoln political campaign ferrotype pin, circa crystal curb link bracelet went above estimate to
1860, changed hands for $1,625. finish at $8,750. 1863 $1 United States coin,
$129,250, Legend Rare Coin
Wendell Gilley sculpture, 1793 Strawberry Leaf cent,
$1,599, Neue Auctions $660,000, Stacks Bowers An 1863 $1 U.S. coin,
graded PCGS PR67+,
A hand-carved and A 1793 Strawberry sold for $129,250 in
painted figure of an Leaf U.S. cent, the Regency Auction 39,
Osprey hawk by artist finest one of four held July 16 by Legend
Wendell Gilley (ME, examples known, with Rare Coin Auctions
1904-1983) sold for all four numbers of the (based in Lincroft, NJ)
$1,599 in an online-only date legible, graded at the PCGS Members
Summer Art & Antiques VG-10 by PCGS, sold Only Show in Las
Auction held July 25 by for $660,000 at an Vegas. Also, an 1865
Neue Auctions in auction held August 6 U.S. 50-cent coin,
Beachwood, OH. Also, by Stacks Bowers (based in Santa Ana, CA) PCGS PR67+, fetched $117,500; an 1862 $1
beautiful Chinese Export at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. A Maine U.S. coin, PCGS PR66+, brought $76,375; an
armorial plates (Qing, Qianlong, circa 1735- collector named Roscoe Staples paid $2,400 1865 U.S. 25-cent coin hit $64,625; an 1862-S
1745) also brought $1,599; a garden bird for the coin in 1941. The Strawberry Leaf cent 10-cent U.S. coin, PCGS MG65, went for
whirligig yard ornament fetched $1,353; and a is named for the distinctive spray beneath the $58,750; and an 1865-S 10-cent U.S. coin,
hand-painted cast iron doorstop in the form of portrait of Liberty that differs from all others of PCGS MS65+, made $55,812.
a uniformed sailor garnered $1,169. the year.

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