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                               Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far        by Ken Hall
                                                                All prices include the buyer’s premium
            Burchfield watercolor,                      Galle cameo glass vase,                      Captain America shield,
            $375,000, Shannon’s                         $6,600, Woody Auction                        $259,540, Hake’s Auctions

                               A watercolor on two                     A 9 3/4 inch-tall blown mold                       A Captain America
                               joined sheets of paper                  French cameo glass vase                            “hero-prop”   shield
                               by Charles Burchfield                   signed Gallé and featuring a                       created by Marvel
                               (Am., 1893-1967), titled                cameo carved vine and                              Studios senior prop
                               January Sun (1948/57),                  blossom décor sold for $6,600                      master Russell Bobbitt
                               sold for $375,000 in an                 at the sale of the Jochimsen                       and used by Chris
                               online Fall Fine Art                    collection held October 23rd                       Evans for close-up
                               Auction held October                    by Woody Auction in                                shots in the 2019 film
                               28th by Shannon’s Fine                  Douglass, KS. Also, a Fenton                       Avengers:  Endgame
                               Art   Auctioneers   in   mosaic art glass pedestal was knocked down for                    sold for $259,540 in
            Milford, CT. Also, an oil on board by Thomas   $6,600; a Gallé French cameo art glass vase with   an online Premier Entertainment & Historical
            Hart Benton (Am., 1889-1975), titled  Study    blown mold cherry branch décor realized   Memorabilia Auction held Nov. 2-3 by Hake’s
            for Sugar Cane (1943), finished at $275,000;   $4,750; and an unmarked Royal Flemish by    Auctions in York, PA. Also, a copy of Fantastic
            and an oil painting by Susan Watkins (Am.,   Mt. Washington vase with griffin and dragon   Four #1 comic (Nov. 1961), CGC-graded 6.0
            1875-1913), titled  Woman Playing a Guitar   enamel décor changed hands for $3,000.      Fine, featuring the debut of Marvel’s first super-
            (1901) hit $106,250.                                                                     hero team, was knocked down for $37,269.
                                                        B. Prabha painting,
            Kikuo Saito abstract art,                   $38,750, Bruneau & Co.                       1980 Nobel Prize,

            $14,760, Neue Auctions                                                                   $275,000, Nate D. Sanders
                                   An    abstract  oil                                                                   The 1980 Nobel Prize
                                   painting by Japanese-                                                                 in   Physiology   or
                                   American     artist                                                                   Medicine, awarded to
                                   Kikuo Saito (1939-                                                                    George D. Snell, sold
                                   2016), titled Summer                                                                  for $275,000 at an
                                   Ghost  (1997), sold                                                                   auction held October
                                   for  $14,760 in an   A painting by B. Prabha (India, 1933-2001),                      30th by Nate D.
            online-only Fine Art & Antiques auction held   titled Indian Women Painting, sold for $38,750                Sanders in Los Angeles.
            October 30th by Neue Auctions in Beachwood,   in an online-only Estate Fine Art & Antique   Snell won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of
            OH. Also, a colorful Parisian street scene    Auction held November 15th by Bruneau &    MHC, the genetic foundation of a body’s
            by Constantin Kluge (Fr., 1912-2003), titled   Co. Auctioneers in Cranston, RI. Also, a Cubist   immunological response to tissue and organ
            Place de la Madeleine, realized $9,840; and a   figural watercolor by Maqbool Fida Husain   transplants, determining whether it accepts an
            large “Milpa” stoneware vessel by Claude    (India, 1915-2011), of a couple on horseback,   organ or rejects it. The first successful organ
            Conover (Am., 1907-1994), 23 inches tall,    fetched $10,625; and a mixed media mounted   transplant occurred in 1954 when one identical
            finished at $8,610.                         to canvas portrait painting by Han Van       twin donated a kidney to his sibling.
                                                        Meegeren (Dutch, 1889-1947), 73 inches by 33
            1871 Union Pacific Railroad pass,           inches, brought $5,938.                      Apollo 17 cuff checklist,

            $5,125, Holabird                            Toulouse-Lautrec poster,                     $744,000, RR Auction
            Western Americana                                                                                                 Astronaut Gene
                                                        $108,000, Poster Auctions Int’l
                                   A Union Pacific                                                                            Cernan’s Apollo
                                   Railroad   compli-                      A poster by Henri de                               17 cuff checklist,
                                                                                                                              which provided
                                                                           Toulouse-Lautrec, titled
                                   mentary pass (#1),
                                   issued to General                       Jane Avril (1899) sold                             instructions for
                                                                                                                              man’s last moon-
                                                                           for $108,000 at Rare
                                   A. W. Marley on
                                   Dec. 31, 1871, sold                     Posters Auction #85 held                           walk (in 1972),
                                                                           November 14th by Poster
                                                                                                                              and held hand-
                                   for $5,125 at an
                                   Autumn Splendor                         Auctions International in                          written notes for
                                                                           New York City. Also,
                                                                                                                              the last words
                                   Western Americana
                                   Auction held Oct.                       Leonetto Cappiello’s Kub                           spoken from the
                                                                           (1931) changed hands
                                                                                                                              surface of the
                                   28 through Nov. 1
            by Holabird Western Americana Collections in                   for  $60,000;    Plinio   Moon, sold for $744,000 in an auction held
                                                                                                     Sept. 26-Oct. 21 by RR Auction in Boston.
                                                                           Codognato’s Gran Premio
            Reno, NV. Also, a 1947 50-peso Mexican gold
                                                                           d’Europa / Fiat (1923)
            coin with 14-carat bezel, the coin being in   finished at $90,000; Alphonse Mucha’s  Salon   Also, Buzz Aldrin’s Apollo 11-flown Lunar
                                                                                                     Module checklist hit $143,750; Aldrin’s Apollo
            almost uncirculated condition, reached $3,125;
            and a group of six vintage gaming chips     des Cent / XXme Exposition (1896) brought    11-flown flight form page reached $129,693;
                                                        $43,200; and Walter Schnackenberg’s  Odeon
                                                                                                     and an Apollo 11 First on the Moon book, signed
            for Harrah’s and other Nevada casinos went
            for $3,875.                                 Casino (1912) achieved $50,400.              by its crew members, made $41,721.


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