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Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall
All prices include the buyer’s premium
1865 tintype of Custer by Brady, French Paul O’Dobey clock, MLK jailhouse logbook,
$5,750, Holabird $11,800, Miller & Miller $130,909, Hake’s Auctions
Western Americana A French Paul Four jailhouse log-
O’Dobey wire tower book pages bearing
An original clock made in 1899, 12 signatures of Rev.
1865 tintype
of General originally from a Martin Luther King,
monastery, sold for
Jr. and five signatures
George
Armstrong $9,300 in an online of his associate Ralph
Abernathy,
signed
Machines,
Music
Custer from a
photograph Clocks, & Canadiana during their 1963
taken by the iconic Civil War-era photographer auction held March incarceration at the
20th by Miller &
Matthew Brady, in a hinged case, sold for Miller Auctions, Ltd. in New Hamburg, Birmingham (AL)
jail, sold for $130,909
$5,750 at a Sweetheart Express Auction held
at Premier Auction
Feb. 11-15 by Holabird Western Americana Ontario, Canada. Also, a Wurlitzer Model 147 #231 held Feb. 24-25 by Hake’s Auctions in
military band organ, made in America in 1916,
Collections in Reno, NV. Also, an 1862
Abraham Lincoln silver Peace Medal in About went for $4,400; and a 1930s Pepsi-Cola neon York, PA. Also, a hand-painted and hand-
stitched 1860 parade banner for Abraham
clock made for the French-Canadian market
Uncirculated condition fetched $18,750; and
three scarce, historically significant ingots (two and featuring Pepsi's early “double-dot” logo, Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, used by young
political activists known as the “Wide Awakes”
hit $3,500. Prices are shown in U.S. dollars.
silver, one gold) brought a combined $86,792. rose to $143,104.
Alphonse Mucha’s The Stars,
American Flyer train, Houdini signed book,
$5,400, Weiss Auctions $72,000, Poster Auctions Int’l $26,400, Potter & Potter
A poster by
An American Flyer S
gauge smoke-in-tender Alphonse Mucha, A first edition copy
titled The Stars
of Harry Houdini’s
Northern 332 steam
locomotive, 1946 or (1902), sold for The Unmasking of
$72,000 at Rare
Robert-Houdin
1947, with a bronze
brake tank, sold for Posters Auction (1908), signed and
#83 held March
inscribed to friend
$5,400 at a Toy &
14th by Poster
Train auction held February 24th by Weiss Auctions International, Inc. in New York City. and colleague Chung
Ling Soo, sold for
Auctions in Lynbrook, NY. Also, a boxed Lionel
$26,400 at a Rare &
2296W Canadian Pacific set from 1957, Also, an anonymous political poster titled Important Magicana auction held February
Equal Rights for Negroes / Vote Communist (1932)
including the super 2373 CP F3 AB Diesel,
brought $5,100; and an exceedingly scarce and fetched $24,000; Leonardo Bistolfi’s Prima 27th by Potter & Potter Auctions in Chicago,
Esposizione Internationale d’Arte (1902) made
IL. Also, a diary kept by Claude Alexander
huge American Flyer dealer poster—95 inches
by 42 inches—and made circa 1955, changed $19,200; and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Le Conlin during his travels to the Alaskan
goldfields in 1898 realized $22,800; and the
Jockey (1899) knocked down for $57,600. The
hands for $5,100. sale grossed $1.95 million. magician Cardini’s fully provenanced, stage-worn
tuxedo, tailor-made in 1933, made $20,400.
Cassin’s bitters bottle, J. & E. Stevens mechanical bank,
$29,900, American Bottle Walter Ufer painting,
$156,000, Morphy Auctions
A Cassin’s Grape Brandy $125,313, Bonhams
Bitters bottle, circa 1866- A J. & E. Stevens A painting by Walter
the
“Shoot
1873, yellow-green in color,
graded 8.5, sold for $29,900 Chute” antique Ufer titled Isleta,
New Mexico sold for
mechanical
at Part 1 of the Don Dwyer
collection of bitters and bank, featuring $125,313 at a Western
Art sale held February
Buster Brown
soda bottles held online
Feb. 26-March 7 by and his dog Tige 26th by Bonhams in
Los Angeles. Also, a
in a boat, in
American Bottle Auctions,
near-mint-plus
based in Sacramento, CA. condition, with original printed wood box, sold 22-inch cast bronze
figure by Cyrus Edwin
Also, a Lacour’s Bitters with
“Sarsapariphere” on the for $156,000 at a sale of the Bob and Judy Dallin titled Appeal
Brady collection held February 27th by Morphy
to the Great Spirit
reverse, yellow-green, graded
8.5+, brought $24,500; and Auctions in Denver, PA. Also, a Kyser & Rex changed hands for $100,313. In the Sporting
Mikado bank, near-mint, earned $81,000; and a
and Wildlife section, world auction records were
a Dr. Wonser’s USA Indian
Root Bitters bottle, choco- Saalheimer & Strauss Mickey Mouse Type 4 set for artists Josef Franz Pallenberg and Mario
tin mechanical bank, near-mint, went to a Zamora Alcantara. The auction totaled
late amber in color, graded 9,
changed hands for $15,525. determined bidder for $31,200. $925,569, with 81 percent of lots selling by lot

and 91 percent by value.

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