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                               Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far        by Ken Hall
                                                                All prices include the buyer’s premium
            Qing Dynasty tapestry,                      Pat Mahomes rookie card,                     Angel Botello bronze,
            $12,500, Bruneau & Co.                      $861,000, Goldin Auctions                    $68,750, Auctions at Showplace

                               A beautiful Chinese                               A 2017 Panini                         A large bronze of a girl
                               Qing Dynasty (or earlier)                         National Treasures                    standing in the wind by
                               embroidered tapestry,                             black #161 Pat                        Angel Botello (Spanish,
                               nicely framed, sold for                           Mahomes signed                        1913-1986), titled  Coup
                               $12,500 in an online                              patch rookie card,                    de Vent II (circa 1975),
                               Estate Fine Art &                                 #1 of 5, graded                       signed, sold for $68,750
                               Antiques auction held                             BGS Mint 9/10,                        at an auction held January
                               January 28th by Bruneau   sold for $861,000 in an online auction ending                 17th by Auctions at
                               & Co. Auctioneers in     February 1st by Goldin Auctions, based in                      Showplace in New York
                               Cranston, RI. Also, a    Runnemede, NJ. It was the most ever paid for a                 City. Also, a complete
                               group of more than 50    football card. Also, a Mickey Mantle 1952                      portfolio of 13 Salvador
                               items relating to fly    Topps #311 rookie card, PSA NM-MT 8,                           Dali (Spanish, 1904-
            fishing (slides, books, a belt buckle, and    brought $1.605 million; and a 2012-13      1989) signed lithographs, from the 1967 series
            artwork) fetched $4,688; a gouache on paper   National Treasures #151 Anthony Davis signed   The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, hit $22,500;
            Arctic marine painting by William Bradford   patch rookie card, #1/1, BGS Mint 9/10, made   and a Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
            (1823-1892) hit $4,375; and a painting by   $1.045 million.                              earthenware pottery vase titled  Face and Owl
            Sacha Tebo (1934-2004) gaveled for $2,375.                                               made $20,000.
                                                        Pair of Windsor chairs,
            Shooting gallery target,                    $65,000, Pook & Pook                         Kernan football painting,
            $27,000, Milestone Auctions                                                              $75,000, Swann Auction
                                                                           A pair of Philadelphia
                              An 1880s hand-painted                        comb-back     Windsor                       An oil on canvas painting
                              figural  iron  shooting                      chairs,  slightly  mis-                     by Joseph F. Kernan, titled
                              gallery target depicting                     matched,    sold    for                     College Football (1932),
                              a drummer with carved-                       $65,000 at an Americana                     used as cover art for an
                              wood hands sold for                          & International Auction                     issue of  The Saturday
                              $27,000 at an auction held                   held Jan. 28-29 by Pook                     Evening Post and likely the
                              January 30th by Milestone   & Pook, Inc. in Downingtown, PA. Also, a                     inspiration for the iconic
                              Auctions in Willoughby,   Charles Morris Young oil on canvas brought                     Heisman trophy design by
                              Ohio. Also, a Berdan      $31,980; a beautiful winter landscape by Arthur                Frank Eliscu in 1934,
                              Sharps model 1859 rifle,   Meltzer rang up $18,450; an Ohio painted                      sold for $75,000 at an
                              bore .52, brought $25,800;   Dutch cupboard realized $44,280; a small    Illustration Art auction held January 28th by
                              a Walther AC PPK pistol,   collection of Russian enamel wares finished at   Swann Auction Galleries in New York City.
                              .765 caliber, retrieved from   $23,124; and a New England chip-carved wall   Also, Leslie Thrasher’s 1912 oil painting
            Adolf Hitler’s “Eagle’s Nest” mountain retreat,   box made $20,000.                      Conference on the Mound, also used as cover art
            went for $16,800; and Sammy Davis, Jr.’s .357                                            for an issue of the Post, hammered for $37,500.
            Magnum, 1965, with holster and belt bearing   Saint-Gaudens statue,
            his name, hit $16,800.                                                                   Copy of Batman No. 1,
                                                        $506,000, Keno Auctions                      $2.22 million, Heritage
            John Wayne True Grit rifle,                                     A bronze sculpture of

            $88,500, Old West Events                                        Diana by Augustus                            The finest known copy
                                                                            Saint-Gaudens (1848-                         of  Batman No. 1
                                                                            1907), 18 feet tall                          (Spring 1940), graded
                                                                            and originally produced                      9.4 by CGC, sold for
                                                                            as a weathervane for                         $2.22 million at a
                                                                            Madison Square Garden,                       Comic & Comic Art
                                                                            sold for $506,000 at an                      auction held Jan. 14-17
            The 1892 Winchester saddle ring carbine rifle                   auction held January                         by Heritage Auctions in
            that John Wayne carried in the movie True Grit                  23rd, during Americana                       Dallas, TX. It was the
            (and the sequel Rooster Cogburn), retrofitted so                Week in New York City,                       most ever paid for a
            Wayne could do his signature one-handed                         by Keno Auctions. Also,                      comic book featuring
            chamber-loading move, sold for $88,500 at the                   a  Kinsman Portrait of                       the Caped Crusader
            31st annual Mesa Old West Auction held      George Washington by Gilbert Stuart (1755-                       and is now the most
            January 23rd by Brian Lebel’s Old West Events   1829), topped out at $356,000;  Frankenstein                 expensive comic book
            in Mesa, AZ. Also, a Sharps Creedmoor rifle   by William Hawkins rose to $41,000;    ever sold by Heritage Auctions. Also, a copy of
            with history to Granville Stuart rang out at   and a Flambé Meiping vase with Qianlong    Detective Comics No. 359 from 1967, marking
            $53,100; and a Colt Model 1860 Army revolver   mark hit $21,000.                         the debut of Batgirl, graded CGC NM/MT 9.8,
            went for $44,250.                                                                        changed hands for $132,000.


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