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

Pokémon trading card, Audemars Piguet watch, Wolf Kahn painting,
$50,600, Weiss Auctions $240,000, Morphy Auctions $162,813, Bonhams

A Pokémon SM Black Star A platinum Audemars A painting by
“Ishihara GX” promotional Piguet Royal Oak Wolf Kahn
trading card, graded PSA 8 Perpetual Calendar wrist- (1927-2020),
Near Mint/Mint, one of watch, purchased new in titled Evening
only about 60 copies in Paris in 1994, sold for Encampment
existence, sold for $50,600 $240,000, twice the high (1974), sold
in an online-only auction estimate, in a Fine & for $162,813
held Nov. 19-20 by Weiss Decorative Arts Auction (a new auction
Auctions in Lynbrook, NY. held Dec. 8-10 by Morphy record for the
Also, a Peanuts daily comic Auctions in Denver, PA. artist) at an American Art sale held November
strip drawn by Charles Also, a monumental Amphora “Spitting-Coin 24th by Bonhams in New York City. Also,
Schulz in 1952 earned Dragon” vase, 21 1/4 inches tall, made $52,800; Albert Bierstadt’s (1830-1902) Entrance to
$26,500; a hand-colored daily comic strip for and an oil-on-board portrait of a child wearing a Golden Gate realized $250,313; Enthroned by
Krazy Kat by George Herriman went for coral necklace seated on a rug with cat and silver Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872-1955), modeled in
$24,150; and a Record of Bodies and Effects for baby toys, 1840, 23 inches by 29 inches (sight) 1902 and cast in 1907, changed hands for
the S.S. Titanic garnered $10,300. realized $38,400. $60,313; and Woodland Terry (1966) by Neil
Welliver (1929-2005) rose to $45,313.
Paces Races slot machine, Composition Santa sleigh,
$22,950, Miller & Miller $72,000, Bertoia Auctions Rare 1933 Hitler photo,
$5,000, Fairhill Auction
A Paces Races 5-cent
horse race slot machine, A rare, original
made in Chicago in first photograph of
1934, sold for $22,950 Adolph Hitler as
in an online Advertising, the newly named
Toys & Historic Objects Reich Chancellor of
Auction held December A large German composition Santa sleigh on a Germany, taken in
12th by Miller & Miller wheeled platform with six belled reindeer, 35 1933, was sold for
Auctions, Ltd. in New inches long, sold for $72,000 in an online auc- $5,000 at auction
Hamburg, Ontario, Canada. Also, a Black Cat tion held Nov. 12-13 by Bertoia Auctions in on November 28th by Fairhill Auction
Cigarettes porcelain sign from the 1940s, made Vineland, NJ. Also, a Lionel 2 7/8-inch electric- in Elk Mills, MD. Pictured (l to r) are: Otto
in Canada, garnered $8,260; a 1950s Coca-Cola powered gondola and trailer, each 16 inches Wagener, Wilhelm Kube, Hanns Kerrl, Joseph
Vendo “44” vending machine brought $7,343; long, to be used in store window displays, Goebbels, Hitler, Ernest Roehm, Hermann
and a 1901 “Berlin” Lion Brewery tin litho sign chugged off for $40,800; and a German cloth- Goering, Walther Darre, Heinrich Himmler,
realized $6,425. dressed composition Santa on a nodding glass- Rudolf Hess, and (seated) Wilhelm Frick. Also,
eyed polar bear atop an “iceberg,” 29 inches tall, the Longines 10 Grand Prix 900 silver pocket
Hermes leather handbag, brought $36,000. watch belonging to Hans Baur (1897-1993),
Hitler’s personal pilot, brought $1,300.
$8,750, Crescent City Rockefeller Center poster,
A circa 1992 Hermes $6,000, Potter & Potter Eddie Van Halen guitar,
Kelly Sellier black $231,250, Julien’s
box leather handbag An aerial view travel poster
sold for $8,750 at a lithograph for Rockefeller A guitar custom-made for
Winter Couture Center in New York City, rock legend Eddie Van
Auction held on rendered in 1936 by Leslie Halen, built by Van Halen
December 5th by Ragan (1897-1972) and and his guitar tech Matt
Crescent City produced by Latham Litho Bruck and later gifted to
Auction Gallery in & Ptg. (NY), sold for Van Halen friend and
New Orleans, LA. $6,000 at a Vintage restaurant owner Bryan
Also, a platinum Posters, Prints & Works on Cush, sold for $231,250 at
tennis bracelet con- Paper auction held an auction titled Icons &
taining 43 round diamonds hit $11,250; a pair November 4th by Potter & Idols Trilogy: Rock ‘n’ Roll
of 14kt yellow gold stud earrings fetched Potter Auctions in Chicago, IL. Also, a rare held Dec. 1-2 by Julien’s
$4,375; a circa 2020 Chanel black patent stone lithograph from the Squaw Valley in Lake Auctions in Los Angeles.
quilted leather 23 classic double flap shoulder Tahoe, circa the 1950s, reached $3,360; and a Also, Kurt Cobain’s stage-
bag made $3,250; and a ladies’ 18kt yellow 1930-era poster for the Moscow Theatre played and smashed Fender Stratocaster guitar
gold Patek Philippe dress watch, circa 1940, Festival made $3,120. realized $153,600; and Gregg Allman’s
rose to $2,250. Hammond organ hit $102,400.

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