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Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall
All prices include the buyer’s premium
Four-panel oil painting, 1899 “Stanley Steamer” vehicle, Ten old Lincoln head pennies
$20,000, Ahlers & Ogletree $32,500, Miller & Miller $1.1 million, GreatCollections

A vibrant and colorful An 1899 Stanley A collection of ten
four-panel oil on canvas Stanhope Model century-old Lincoln
painting by Nyoman No. 1 “Locomobile” head pennies in superb
Gunarsa (Indonesian, vehicle, popularly proof condition and all
1944-2017), that is titled known as the from the Philadelphia
Balinese Dancers, overall “Stanley Steamer” mint sold for a com-
size 106 1/4 inches by because of its steam bined $1.113 million
107 inches, sold for engine, sold for in an online auction
$20,000 in an online- $32,500 in an that ended August 28 at
only Fine Estates & Collections auction held online-only Petroliana & Advertising auction GreatCollections.com,
Aug. 25-27 by Ahlers & Ogletree in Atlanta, held September 10th by Miller & Miller based in Irvine, CA.
GA. Also, pair of Chinese blue and white porce- Auctions, Ltd., in New Hamburg, Ontario, One was a first-year
lain phoenix tail vases, 17 inches tall, finished at Canada. Also, a 1907 REO Model A 5- issue Lincoln cent from 1909 with designer
$18,750; and an untitled paint splatter work by passenger touring car chugged off for $30,400; Victor D. Brenner’s initials on the reverse. It
Sam Francis (Calif., 1923-1994), artist signed, and a prototype of the 1911 Model H REO sold for $365,625, a record price for that coin.
brought $18,750. pickup truck sped away for $26,100. Also, four other pennies dated between 1909
and 1915 brought more than $100,000 each.
E. S. Cooper oil painting, Keith Haring chalk drawing,

$18,750, Crescent City $30,750, Nye & Company Two Andrew Clemens bottles,
$98,750, Bonhams Skinner
An oil on canvas A chalk drawing by
painting by E. S. pop art icon Keith Two patriotic sand bottles
Cooper, titled Haring (American, by Andrew Clemens
Wooden Bridge in 1958-1990), titled (shown) sold for a combined
a Louisiana Bayou Ourobourus (circa $98,750 ($75,000 and
Landscape (1888), 1983-1985), from $23,750) at an Americana
sold for $18,750 the artist’s Subway sale held August 13th by
at a September series, 46 1/2 inches Bonhams Skinner in
Select Auction held Sept. 9-10 by Crescent City by 58 1/2 inches, Marlborough, MA. Also, the
Auction Gallery in New Orleans, LA. Also, a felt sold for $30,750 at an Estate Treasures auction original manuscript journal
on paper work by Keith Haring (NY, 1958- held Sept. 7-8 by Nye & Company Auctioneers of Cleopatra’s Barge on a
1990), titled If You Want to See More (1984) in Bloomfield, NJ. Also, a silkscreen by Andy Voyage of Pleasure (Vol. 1)
rang up $10,000; a polished aluminum kinetic Warhol (American, 1928-1987), titled Pete by James Crowninshields
sculpture by Lin Emery, titled Petals, realized Rose, signed by Warhol and Rose, numbered PP went for $100,000; a John
$7,500; and a 1987 Mercedes Benz 300 SDL 5/8, brought $17,220; and a ceramic plate by Halley Bellamy carved
sped away for $6,875. Pablo Picasso for Madoura, titled Goat’s Head, and painted patriotic eagle
rose to $13,530. plaque realized $20,000; and a carved, gilded
37-star American flag from 1867, and painted Phrygian cap earned $10,000.

$10,625, Holabird 1963 Belgian dance organ, Musgo Gasoline porcelain sign,
Western Americana $350,000, Morphy Auctions $1.5 million, Richmond Auctions
A robot dance
American flag organ, created A 48-inch, double-
with 37 stars
in very good in 1963 by sided porcelain Musgo
Gasoline sign sold for
Gebroeders
condition,
made in 1867 Decap $1.5 million at an
(Antwerp,
auction held August
upon the
admission of Belgium), one 27th by Richmond
of only three
Auctions in Greenville,
Nebraska as a
state, sold for $10,625 at a Rush to the Rockies made in a 105-key configuration, sold for SC. It was a new world
auction record for an
$350,000 at the sale of the Henri Krijnen
auction held Aug. 25-28 by Holabird Western
Americana Collections in Reno, NV. Also, a musical machines collection held Sept. 9-10 by antique advertising sign, besting the previous
Morphy Auctions in Denver, PA. Also, an
record of $400,000. The sign was discovered in
circa 1898-1908 Vota & DeHeines (Silverton,
Colo.) pocket whiskey flask achieved $4,375; ornate and gilded Koenigsberg 70-key an attic in Michigan and had never been seen by
the public. It also had never been used as a septic
“Harmonium” street organ, made in Holland in
and a collection of around 90 Paleo points
(arrowheads) that included a wide variety of 1910, found a new home for $54,120; and a tank lid, like many Musgo signs from that
time (the mid-1920s, during Musgo’s brief,
Gastaud et Raibaut for Bodson “Double Tino”
shapes and materials changed hands for $8,750. orchestrion (Paris, 1925) brought $73,800. six-month life).

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