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

            David Burliuk painting,                     French Atmos clock,                          1916 Boston Red Sox button,
            $39,100, Weiss Auctions                     $5,015, Miller & Miller                      $62,980, Hake’s Auctions

                               An oil-on-canvas portrait                     A French Atmos per-                          A Boston Red Sox 1916
                               of a Japanese girl by                         petual time clock from                       World Championship
                               David Burliuk (Ukrainian                      the 1940s sold for                           button,   advertising
                               /American, 1882-1967),                        $5,015 in an online-                         “Alpen Brau, Detroit’s
                               signed and dated “1922,”                      only Canadiana &                             Champion Beer,” with
                               sold for $39,100 in an                        Historic Objects auc-                        images of future Hall of
                               online   auction  held                        tion held October 24th                       Famers Babe Ruth,
                               September 16th by Weiss                       by Miller & Miller                           Herb Pennock, and
                               Auctions,   based   in                        Auctions, Ltd., based                        Harry Hooper, sold for
                               Lynbrook, NY. Also, a                         in New Hamburg,         $62,980 at a Pop Culture Memorabilia Auction
                               14kt gold custom flute   Ontario, Canada. Also, a Wettlaufer decorated   held Sept. 23-24 by Hake’s Auctions in York, PA.
            handmade by Verne Q. Powell (Boston) in 1951   child’s wagon made in Canada circa 1890 rolled   Also, a copy of  Superman #1 (Summer 1939),
            or 1952 rose to $17,825; a circa 1900 Seth   away for $4,560; a cased set of English dueling   graded CGC Restored 6.0, with the origin story of
            Thomas Regulator No. 60 wall clock earned   pistols made by William Chance & Son         Superman, brought $42,992; and an Ingersoll
            $17,250; and an oil painting by Michel Delacroix   (London, circa 1830-1860) hit $3,650; and a   Mickey Mouse wristwatch, first version, 1933,
            (French, b. 1933) went for $15,600.         painting by John J. Kenyon made $3,650.      went for $11,422.

            Roy Lichtenstein tile,                      American Life Bitters bottle,                Painted pie safe,
            $36,900, Neue Auctions                      $42,000, Glass Works Auctions   $38,240, Dirk Soulis

                                   A rare and unusual                   An American Life Bitters                     A painted pie safe, probably
                                   mosaic tabletop tile                 bottle made in Ohio circa                    Midwestern, with 16 punched
                                   by Roy Lichtenstein                  1865-1875 sold for $42,000                   tins lettered “LINCOLN”
                                   (American, 1923-                     in an online-only auction                    positioned above crossed-flags
                                   1997), made in                       held Sept. 21-28 by Glass                    and floating stars, sold for
                                   1950 and 14 1/2                      Works Auctions, based in                     $38,420 at Americana Week
                                   inches by 16 1/4                     East Greenville, PA. Also, a                 in Missouri auctions held
                                   inches in a walnut                   Constitution Bitters bottle                  September 19th and 26th by
                                   frame,   sold  for                   made in New York circa                       Dirk Soulis Auctions in Lone
            $36,900 in an online Fine Art & Antiques                    1865-1875 brought $23,000;                   Jack, MO. Also, a William F.
            auction held September 26th by Neue Auctions                a St. Drake’s Plantation                     Mangels (Coney Island, NY)
            in Beachwood, OH. Also, a circa 1910 Roycroft               Bitters bottle patented in   cast-iron light-up clown gallery target known as
            Ali Baba bench featuring a plank seat realized              New York in 1862 fetched     “Rowdy,” 26 inches by 19 1/2 inches, brought
            $17,220; and a stunning 17th century English,               $14,000; and a pattern globu-  $35,200; and a 53-inch “Shorty” cast-iron shoot-
            Netherlands, or Spanish School oil portrait of a   lar bottle made by Zanesville Glass Works    ing gallery target (also by Mangels) hit $33,000.
            Royal or Court Lady went for $14,760.       in Ohio, circa 1815-1835, changed hands
                                                        for $7,500.                                  Pietro Calvi bust of Othello,
            Tiffany Poppy chandelier,                                                                $102,400, J. Garrett Auctioneers

            $665,500, Fontaine’s                        Machine Man robot,                                                 A marble and bronze
                                                        $160,000, Morphy’s
                               A Tiffany Studios Oriental                                                                  bust of Othello by
                               Poppy chandelier sold for                          A rare Masudaya                          Pietro Calvi (Italian,
                               $665,500 at a Fine &                               Japanese-made                            1833-1885) sold for
                               Decorative Arts Auction                            Machine    Man                           $102,400 in a Texas
                               held September 12th                                toy robot, litho-                        Billionaires  online
                               by Fontaine’s Auction                              graphed tin and                          auction held Sept.
                               Gallery in Pittsfield, MA.                         battery-operated,                        12-15 by J. Garrett
                               Also, a Tiffany Studios                            graded in VG-                            Auctioneers, based in
                               Elizabethan table lamp,                            NM condition,                            Dallas, TX. Also, a
                               having a 22-inch diameter   with original pictorial box, sold for $160,000 at               snowy New York
                               octagonal shade with     a Toy Auction held Sept. 23-24 by Morphy’s in                      streetscape by Guy
                               multi-colored glass jewels,   Denver, PA. Also, a Gum, Inc. (Philadelphia)                  Carleton   Wiggins
                               lit up the room for      “Horrors of War” boxed card set, 240 cards                         (American,   1883-
                               $90,750; a Duffner &     total, made $28,300; a circa 1912 J. & E.    1962), titled  Winter at 57th and 5th, brought
                               Kimberly Louis XIII table   Stevens “Boy Scout Camp” cast-iron mechanical   $54,400; a classic Cartier 18kt chronograph
            lamp knocked down for $33,275; a Diego Rivera   bank hit $25,900; and a circa-1890s “Atlas”   Pasha diamond wristwatch went for $41,600;
            watercolor and gouache on paper titled Mineros   cast-iron mechanical bank reached $25,900.     and an oil-on-canvas country scene by Louis
                                                                                                     Aston Knight made $21,760.
            (1925) made $29,040.

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