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                               Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far        by Ken Hall
                                                                All prices include the buyer’s premium
            4.61-ct. anniversary ring,                  San Francisco Mint .999                      Marked R.S. Prussia bowl,
            $118,750, Ahlers & Ogletree                 silver ingot,                                $24,000, Woody Auction

                                A 4.61-ct. vintage plat-  $7,320, Holabird                                                  A gorgeous bowl
                                inum and diamond        Western Americana                                                   marked        R.S.
                                anniversary ring given                                                                      Prussia, the only
                                by the late Coca-Cola                  A San Francisco Mint silver                          known example of
                                president Robert W.                    ingot, .999 fine, weighing                           an R.S. Prussia
                                Woodruff (1889-1985)                   6.61 oz. and showing the old-                        Spring Season bowl
                                to his wife Nell sold for              style pre-World War II logo                          in the Carnation
                                $118,750 in an online-                 of the Mint of San Francisco,                        mold, sold for
                                only sale of items from                sold for $7,320 at a Western                         $24,000 at a sale of
            the Woodruff estate held February 26th by                  Trails & Treasures Premier                           the David and
            Ahlers & Ogletree in Atlanta. Also, a portrait             Auction held Feb. 24-28 by    Marlene Howard collection held March 19th by
            painting of George Washington by former                    Holabird Western Americana    Woody Auction in Douglass, KS. Also, a Regina
            President Dwight D. Eisenhower went for                    Collections in Reno, NV.      upright music box, fully operational with good
            $50,000; and a charcoal on paper portrait of   Also, five publications relating to Philippines   sound, brought $15,400; a signed Daum Nancy
            Mr. Woodruff by Norman Rockwell (1894-      travel ephemera from the first half of the 20th   French cameo art glass vase, 15 1/2 inches tall,
            1978) realized $43,750.                     century fetched $10,938; and an 1853 directory   rang up $3,450; and a table lamp by Pairpoint,
                                                        for residents of Marysville City, California   20 1/2 inches tall, featuring a Venice shade, lit
            MacMonnies bronze,                          reached $9,150.                              up the room for $7,700.

            $27,060, Neue Auctions                        World War II poster,                         Clementine Hunter oil,
                                         A     bronze   $3,750, Fairhill Auction                     $7,680, Crescent City
                                         statue with
                                         green verdi-                      An American World War                                An    oil  on
                                         gris patina                       II poster titled This is the                         board painting
                                         signed   by                       Enemy, with artwork by                               by Clementine
                                         Frederick                         Karl Koehler (1913-                                  Hunter (La.,
                                         William                           2000)    and    Victor                               1887-1987),
                                         MacMonnies                        Ancona (1912-1998), 34                               titled  Fish Fry,
            (American, 1863-1937), titled Pioneer Mother,                  inches by 24 inches, sold                            signed lower
            15 inches tall, sold for $27,060 in an online-                 for $3,750 in Vintage                                right and in a
            only English & Chinese Export Art & Antiques                   Poster Auction #105,                                 redwood
            auction held March 26th by Neue Auctions                       held online March 10th    frame, sold for $7,680 at an Important Spring
            in Beachwood, OH. Also, an oil on canvas                       by Fairhill Auction,      Estates Auction held March 18-19 by Crescent
            landscape by George Hetzel (French/American,                   based in Elkton, MD.      City Auction Gallery in New Orleans, LA. Also,
            1826-1899), titled  Scalp Level Landscape,   Also, a circa 1940 German World War II    a 20th century French Art Deco style ormolu-
            Pennsylvania, 1887, 30 inches by 50 inches   antisemitic poster with artwork by Mjolnir   mounted carved walnut sideboard fetched
            (canvas, less frame), rose to $22,140.      (Hans Schweitzer, 1901-1980), titled Der Jude,   $4,375; a pair of early 20th century Oriental
                                                        45 1/2 inches by 33 inches, professionally linen-  patinated bronze figures reached $8,750; and a
            Magic: The Gathering card,                  backed, changed hands for $3,750.            lady’s 18kt rose gold link and diamond bracelet
                                                                                                     hit $14,080.
            $45,000, Bruneau & Co.                      Kishida portrait painting,

                                A Magic: The Gathering   $294,400, Nye & Company                     Edison Class M phonograph,
                                Beta Block Lotus trading                                             CA$35,400, Miller & Miller
                                card from 1993, graded                      A 1921 portrait painting
                                CGC 9 Mint, sold for                        of Kondo Tsugushige,                               An Edison Class
                                $45,000 at a Winter                         the Japanese scientist                             M      cylinder
                                Comic, TCG (Trading                         and co-founder of the                              phonograph,
                                Card Game) & Toy                            Japan Surgical Society,                            made in America
                                auction held February                       by   Ryusei   Kishida                              around 1890,
                                26th by Bruneau &                           (Japanese, 1891-1929),                             sold for $28,300
                                Co. Auctioneers in                          sold for $294,400 at an   in an online Music Machines, Toys &
                                Cranston, RI. Also, a                       Estate Treasures Auction   Advertising sale held March 19th by Miller &
                                1993 “MTG”  Alpha                           held March 2-3 by Nye    Miller Auctions, Ltd., in New Hamburg,
                                Ancestral card graded   & Company Auctioneers in Bloomfield, NJ.     Ontario, Canada. Also, a 1960 Rock-Ola
            CGC 9.5 Gem Mint fetched $38,750; and a     Also, two colorful floral screenprints by Andy   Tempo II Model 1478 jukebox, nicknamed
            copy of  Detective Comics #359 (Jan. 1967),   Warhol went to the same American bidder for   the “Windshield” for its ‘50s car-like look,
            graded CGC 8.0, with the origin and first   $104,550 and $92,250; and a circa 1930 crayon   finished at $8,260; and an early 20th century
            appearance of  Batgirl and an appearance by   on paper work by Marsden Hartley (1877-    J. & E. Stevens “North Pole” mechanical bank
            Killer Moth, hit $4,000.                    1943), titled Mountains, hit $17,200.        hit $61,200.

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