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Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall
All prices include the buyer’s premium
Chinese dragon bowl, Model steam locomotive, Shaw cup and saucer,
$200,000, Briggs Auction CA$15,340, Miller & Miller $75,000, Skinner, Inc.

A Chinese porcelain A 7 1/4 inch gauge A cup and saucer
dragon bowl with model steam loco- from Samuel
Yongzheng mark motive of the Great Shaw’s Society
sold for $200,000 Western Railway 4- of the Cincinnati
in an online Fine 6-0 locomotive and Chinese Export
Estates Auction held tender sold for Porcelain Service
July 30th by Briggs $12,100 in back-to- sold for $75,000
Auction, Inc. in back online auctions in Americana
Garnet Valley, PA. held September 11th Auctions held
Also, an early 20th century Louis Vuitton and 12th by Miller Aug. 18-19 by Skinner, Inc. in Marlborough,
steamer trunk adorned with various travel stickers & Miller Auctions, Ltd., based in New MA. Also, an Andrew Clemens patriotic sand
brought $12,250; a Scandinavian peg tankard Hamburg, Ontario, Canada. Also, an 1869 bottle rose to $75,000; two molded copper
with Danish Coronation medal realized $10,625; French-style Boneshaker bicycle sped off for models of the “Massasoit” weathervane brought
a George Nakashima Minguren side table with $8,400; and a 1946 Wurlitzer jukebox, the $31,250 and $43,750; a portrait of a child in a
triangular-form free-edge top made $8,750; and a iconic Model 1015, complete with 24 78-rpm blue dress by William Matthew Prior climbed
painting by James Webb hit $8,750. rock ‘n’ roll records, hit $6,050. to $28,750; and a Portsmouth (N.H.) work
table brought $17,500.
Elvis contract for Graceland, Kyser & Rex mechanical bank,

$114,660, PristineAuction.com $288,000, Bertoia Auctions Ivan Aivazovsky painting,
$169,650, Thomaston Place
The 1957 contract A Mikado cast-iron
signed by Elvis mechanical bank made An oil on canvas
Presley and both of by Kyser & Rex painting by Ivan
his parents for the (Philadelphia) sold for Aivazovsky
purchase of the home $288,000 at Part 2 (Russian, 1817-
in Memphis that of the sale of the 1900), titled After
became known as Schroeder toy collec- the Storm, sold for
Graceland soared to tion held Sept. 10-11 $169,650 at an
$114,660 in an by Bertoia Auctions in auction titled the
online auction held Vineland, NJ. The Splendid, Part II, held August 27th-29th by
August 10th by bank, very rare and in Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in
PristineAuction.com, based in Phoenix, AZ. pristine to near mint Thomaston, Maine. Also, an oil on hardboard
It was the only lot in the auction. The custom- condition, was the red painting depicting the yacht America by James
framed document, 30 inches by 34 inches, table version. The user placed a coin under the E. Buttersworth (NJ/NY/U.K., 1817-1894)
stated that the Presleys would trade their right hat, turned the rear crank, and watched as realized $117,000; and a painting by Andrew
property on Audubon Drive in Memphis for a the man lifted the left hat to reveal the coin, Wyeth (PA/ME, 1917-2009), titled In the
$55,000 credit, plus an extra $90,000 to then lowered the hat as the coin was deposited. Georges Islands, finished at $87,750.
purchase Graceland.
Moby-Dick first edition, Korean glazed ceramic moon jar,
1987 Hermes handbag, $60,000, Potter & Potter $22,500, Auctions at Showplace

$15,000, Crescent City
A first American A large Korean Joseon
A circa 1987 Kelly edition copy of Dynasty (1392-1910)
Sellier handbag in Herman Melville’s white glazed ceramic
black box calfskin Moby-Dick; or, The moon jar of spherical
leather with gold Whale (Harper & form, 11 1/2 inches
hardware sold for Brothers, NY, tall, sold for $22,500
$15,000 at an 1851) sold for at an estate auction
Important Estates $60,000 at a held August 8th
Auction held Sept. Fine Books & by Auctions at
18-19 by Crescent Manuscripts Sale Showplace in New
City Auction held August 28th York City. Also, an Indian ink and watercolor
Gallery in New Orleans, LA. Also, an oil on by Potter & Potter Auctions in Chicago. Also, a on paper Paithan manuscript illustration, most
canvas painting by James Michalopoulos 38-volume set titled The Writings of Mark likely from Ramayana, depicting a figure
(PA/New Orleans, b. 1951), titled New Orleans Twain (Gabriel Wells, NY, circa 1923-1925) with two horses, earned $4,062; and a colorful
Center Hall Cottage (1988), went for $10,625; brought $33,600; a set of five Christmas books 1990 Pop Art acrylic on paper of a man, a
and an oil painting by Clementine Hunter (LA, by Charles Dickens (London, circa 1843-1848) house, and a water tower by Tom Slaughter
1886-1988), titled Uncle Tom in the Garden made $28,800; and a typed letter by Nikola finished at $3,125.
with Little Eva (circa 1965) made $9,375. Tesla, signed, hit $10,800.

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