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Hake’s Auctions Offers Star Wars Special Event June 2
YORK, PA – Hake’s Auctions will hold a Star Wars – 12 Action Figures Rare Store
Star Wars memorabilia auction of galactic Display Sign AFA 75 EX+/NM.
proportions on June 2. Long established The auction will also feature other
as the auction house for all things Star Wars, prototypes and pre-production lots, foreign
this special cataloged auction event will be issues, highest graded examples and more,
loaded with the best of the best and the covering items such as action figures, vehi-
rarest of the rare. The 200+ premier lot auc- cles, playsets, store displays and proofs, will
tion opens for online bidding May 16 and also be up for auction.
will close on June 2. Bidding will take place at Additionally, bidders will find movie posters
www.hakes.com. and cast signed photos.
Highlighting the auction is a Boba Fett rocket- Catalogs for the auction will be mailed on May 13
firing L-Slot prototype AFA 80+ NM. Other high- to all recent Star Wars and action figure bidders.
lights include Star Wars Early Bid Certificate AFA Others can request a catalog by contacting
85 NM+, Vinyl Cape Jawa 12 Back-A AFA 80 hakes@hakes.com. Much more to come on the
NM, High grade loose example of the Double- Star Wars auction event of the year, so stay tuned!
Telescoping Darth Vader AFA 90 NM/Mint, Since 1967, Hake’s Auctions has been The
Loose example of the Mexican Lili Ledy Boba Fett Premier Source For Two Centuries of American
(with removable rocket) AFA 80+ NM, Power of Popular Culture Collectibles! For more informa-
the Force Canadian Yak Face AFA 80 Y-NM, and tion visit www.hakes.com.

JFK White House Rocking Chair Tops Heritage Auctions’

$4.9 million American Treasures Event
DALLAS, TX – A rocking chair commissioned by President John F. his native Philadelphia,
Kennedy sold at Heritage Auctions’ $4.9 million American Treasures which went for $15,500;
event on May 7th for nearly $600,000, the highest price ever paid for and the sole copy of the
one of the late president’s prized rockers. Atlantic Charter signed by
The chair was among the numerous treasures from the vaunted President Franklin D.
assemblage of beloved philanthropist and American history collector Roosevelt and British Prime
Melvin “Pete” Mark Jr., the Portland, Oregon real estate developer who Minister Winston S.
died in June 2017 at the age of 91. The American Treasures auction Churchill. Its new owner
featured more than 100 pieces from Mark’s collection, and was paid $250,000 for the privi-
Heritage Auctions’ most successful sale of American treasures in the lege of owning the August
company’s 46-year history. 1941 document in which
Mark’s assemblage was so significant, the Oregon Historical Society the two men shared “their
hosted five different exhibits over the years featuring items from the hopes for a better future for USS West Virginia (BB-48), Colorado-class
collection. And in keeping with their father and mother’s wishes, Pete the world.” battleship, Original WWII Ring Life Preserver
and Mary Mark’s children are selling a majority of the collection to sup- Mark also owned one of sold for $495,000
port their parents’ passions, Portland’s history, and its arts, as well as the fewer than 250 surviving
other causes dear to the couple. Enigma machines used by the Germans to encrypt top-secret messages
Kennedy's rocking chair, one of 12 the late president had made in during World War II. One of the centerpieces of this auction, it, too,
1961 by master craftsman and longtime White House upholsterer realized $250,000.
Lawrence J. Arata, opened live bidding Saturday at $57,500. But as Heritage Auctions is by far the largest fine art
so often happened Saturday, a bidding war ensued the very moment the and collectibles auction house founded in the
lot was announced, and within moments United States, and the world’s largest
the price skyrocketed. When bidding closed, collectibles auctioneer, with annual auction
the chair, which Kennedy had in the White sales exceeding $1 billion, plus additional
House and later gifted to former New York private sales of over $350 million. Heritage
governor Averell Harriman, had realized maintains offices in New York, Dallas,
$591,000. Beverly Hills, Chicago, Palm Beach,
Other highlights from the Mark’s London, Paris, Geneva,
collection included a life preserver from Hong Kong, and
the USS West Virginia retrieved from the Amsterdam.
water following the bombing of Pearl For more informa-
Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, sold for tion visit .HA.com.
$495,000; a letter written by a
man named George Henry
Hunt to his mother
and father shortly John F. Kennedy. White
House Rocking Chair
after he joined the gifted by the President to
maiden voyage of the former New York
“Enigma” RMS Titanic in Governor Averell
Encrypting Southampton on Harriman sold for
Machine Used April 10, 1912, $591,000
by the German when heading home to at Heritage Auctions
Military in WWII
sold for $250,000

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