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

1907 leather motorcycle tag, “Black Cat” slot machine, Chippendale bureau,
CA$10,620, Miller & Miller $96,000, Morphy Auctions $291,000, Skinner, Inc.

A 1907 leather A Caille Bros. 5-cent ‘Black A Chippendale
Canadian motor- Cat’ musical upright cabinet mahogany reverse
cycle license plate slot machine, very rare and serpentine bureau,
sold for $10,620 at in fine working order, sold made in America
an Advertising & for $96,000 at a Coin-Op circa 1760-1780,
Historic Objects & Advertising Auction held sold for $291,000
Auction held Dec. Nov. 20-21 by Morphy at a series of week-
7 by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd., in New Auctions in Denver, PA. long auctions held
Hamburg, Ontario, Canada. Also, a Canadian Also, an oversize (47” tall) in November by
Orange Crush tin litho sign ca. 1930s made Coca-Cola leaded-glass dis- Skinner, Inc. in
$5,959; a 1937 Canada Cycle & Motor play bottle, made in the Boston. Also, a
Company “Flyte” bicycle sped off for $3,600; and 1920s by Metropolitan Art fragment from an
an 1898 French advertising poster for Cleveland Glass Co. (NY) sold for 18th century statue of King George III finished
Cycles, with artwork by Jean Pal de Paleologue, $84,000; and a Multiphone at $207,000; a “Canal Hotel” tavern sign (Port
rose to $3,835. Prices are in Canadian dollars. Operating Company 5-cent Jervis, NY, ca. 1826) fetched $171,000; and
multiple-cylinder phonograph, ca. 1905, Daniel Barns’s Siege of Boston powder horn
Reform School Girl, brought $66,000. made $24,600.
$3,438, Bruneau & Co.
Pair of Hamblin portraits, Rare 1847 circus poster,
A copy of Reform School $64,350, Jeffrey S. Evans $11,400, Potter & Potter
Girl from Avon Realistic
Comics (1951), graded A pair of Sturtevant A rare circus poster
CGC 3.0, sold for $3,438 Hamblin (Am., 1817- for Raymond &
at a Winter Comic & 1884) folk art portraits Company’s Menagerie
Toy Auction held Dec. of a brother and sister for 1847 sold for
14th by Bruneau & Co. from a Bath, ME family $11,400 at a Circus,
Auctioneers in Cranston, (one shown) sold Sideshow & Oddities
RI. Also, a copy of Marvel for $64,350 at an Auction held Nov. 16th
Comics’ Incredible Hulk Americana Auction held by Potter & Potter
#181 (Nov. 1974), with Nov. 15-16 by Jeffrey S. Auctions in Chicago.
the first full appearance of Evans & Associates in Also, Buffalo Bill’s first
Wolverine, graded CGC Mt. Crawford, VA. Also, Wild West performance
6.5, rose to $3,375; and a Star Wars 1977 Kenner a Stirewalt family paint- program made $9,600;
back A Luke Skywalker figure, graded CAS 80, decorated box finished at $38,025; a Plains and an astrology side-
made $1,875. Native American beaded pipe bag went for show banner for The Graysons’ How the Stars
$23,400; and a railroad presentation cut-glass Bring Success brought $6,000.
Alaska Gold Rush compote hit $9,360.
Peter Voulkos sculpture,
4.51-troy oz. nugget, Alexander Calder painting,
$10,845, Holabird $81,250, John Moran Auc. $250,000, Rago/Wright
Western Americana A sculpture by
An untitled gouache and Peter Voulkos
A 4.51 troy watercolor on Canson titled Snake
ounce Alaska paper by Alexander River sold for
Gold Rush Calder (Am., 1898- $250,000 at a
gold nugget 1976) sold for $81,250 Masterworks of
from the at a 20th Century Art & American Craft
Atlin mining Design Auction held auction, held
in Yukon, Nov. 19th by John Nov. 22nd by
Alaska, sold Moran Auctioneers in Rago/Wright in
for $10,845 Monrovia, CA. Also, a Lambertville,
at a Holiday Treasures Auction held Dec. 5-9 by 1979 oil on canvas by Julian Stanczak NJ. Also, an
Holabird Western Americana Collections in (Polish/Am., 1928-2017), titled Accompanying untitled kinetic form sculpture by Harry Bertoia
Reno, NV. Also, an oil on board painting of pan- Warm, changed hands for $50,000; and a finished at $150,000; a Paul Evans sculpture
handlers on mules signed by Texas artist William French Jean Puiforcat sterling silver flatware front cabinet achieved $125,000; and a Tiffany
Forrest Martin made $8,540; and a 1909 poster service in the Cannes pattern found a new Studios lobster and crab box went to a deter-
for “Pawnee Bill’s Great Far East combined with owner for $81,125. mined bidder, also for $87,500.
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” show hit $4,375.

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