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Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall
All prices include the buyer’s premium
Maud Lewis folk art, American National pedal car, John Speed map of the world,
$100,300, Miller & Miller $66,000, Milestone Auctions $12,650, Old World Auctions

A mixed media painting by An American A New and
Canadian folk artist Maud National Accurat Map of
Lewis (1903-1980), titled Deluxe Coupe the World (1626)
Winter Sleigh Ride, sold for pedal car, 68 by John Speed,
$74,000 in an online-only inches long, an iconic first-
Canadiana & Folk Art with opening state version of
auction held October 8th by Miller & Miller doors, sliding Speed’s double-
Auctions, Ltd., based in New Hamburg, windows, inte- hemisphere
Ontario, Canada. Also, a mixed media diorama rior upholstery, and curtains, sold for $66,000 world map with
by Adelard Brousseau of Quebec, titled Maple at a sale of antique and vintage toys from the rare blank verso, sold for $12,650 in an online
Sugar Time, rose to $7,800; and an acrylic on Mark Smith collection held September 24th by auction held in September by Old World
paper by Norval Morrisseau (Canadian, 1932- Milestone Auctions in Willoughby, OH. Also, a Auctions, based in Richmond, VA. Also,
2007), titled Ancestral Visitors, made $8,700. Gendron 50-inch-long chain-drive pedal car Islandia (1585) by Abraham Ortelius, one of
with steel body and wood radiator, tires, and Ortelius’s most decorative maps featuring
Copy of Wonder Woman #1, frame sped off for $24,000; and a Domo fantastical sea monsters, fetched $12,075; and
$54,000, Bruneau & Co. Auc. Maserati 4cl tether race car made in Italy an unusual oval bible map of the world by
Danckert Danckerts (1658) made $7,475.
brought $6,600.
A copy of D.C. Comics
Wonder Woman #1, Chinoiserie-style table, 1821 Half Eagle gold coin,
featuring the first $10,000, John Moran $4.62 million, Heritage
appearance of Ares and
a retelling of the origin A black lacquered An 1821 Half
of Wonder Woman, Chinoiserie-style Eagle $5 gold
graded CGC 5.5, sold console table with U.S. proof coin,
for $54,000 at a sale of gilt highlights sold graded PR65
the Henry Anderson for $10,000 at a sale Cameo, the only
collection held October of Property from the proof in private
1st by Bruneau & Co. Thomas and Erika hands and one of
Auctioneers in Cranston, Jayne Girardi Residence held September 21st only two proof
RI. Also, a copy of D.C. in Los Angeles. Also, an 81-inch-tall bronze examples known
Comics Detective Comics #38, featuring the sculpture of a man by J. Seward Johnson, Jr. (the other is in
origin and first appearance of Batman’s sidekick brought $13,750; a pair of Michael Taylor the Smithsonian Institution), sold for $4.62
Robin, The Boy Wonder, graded CGC 3.0, “Monticello” outdoor garden armchairs realized million at Part 1 of the Harry W. Bass, Jr. Core
brought $51,600. $7,150; and a 19th century continental hand- Collection held September 29th by Heritage
painted, black lacquered cabinet with mytholog- Auctions (based in Dallas) in Long Beach, CA.
Ansel Adams Yosemite ical oil paintings rose to $11,875. Also, a 1795 BD-1 13 leaves $10 U.S. coin,
photo print, Lê Phổ painting, MS64, rose to $690,000; and an 1848 CAL.
quarter eagle coin, MS64, garnered $552,000.
$38,750, Holabird $337,500, Hindman
Western Americana Chinese porcelain vase,
A painting by $504,000, Doyle
An Ansel Adams signed Vietnamese A Chinese famille rose
and framed Yosemite artist Lê Phổ, porcelain vase with
photo print from around titled Femme the Qianlong mark of
1959 sold for $38,750 Peignant, sold the period sold for
at a Western Frontiers for $337,500 $504,000 at an Asian
auction held October at Fine Art Works of Art auction
13th-16th by Holabird auctions held held September 21st
Western Americana Sept. 27-29 by Doyle in New
Collections in Reno, by Hindman in Chicago. Also, Lê Phổ’s paint- York City. Also,
NV. Also, a Gibson ings La Lettre and Les Dahlia Jaunes brought another exceptional
model ES175 Sunburst $237,500 and $137,500, respectively; an Qianlong mark and
electric guitar with a untitled portrait of a baseball player by Ernie period tianqiuping,
factory Bixbee whammy Barnes rang up $312,500; Friedel Dzubas’s decorated with a
bar realized $3,500; a beautiful circa 1900 Aglaura (1978) went for $137,500; Ron monochrome blue glaze, went to a determined
red mesa chief pattern rug, 6 feet by 6 1/2 feet, Davis’s Red Top (1968) realized $131,250; bidder for $94,500, many times its $10,000-
rang up $4,000; and a .9999 one ounce of and Gertrude Abercrombie’s Blue Screen (1945) $15,000 estimate. The auction featured porce-
fine gold 1914 $50 American Buffalo coin hit $225,000. lains, bronzes, jades, snuff bottles, pottery,
earned $2,250.
scholar’s objects, furniture, and paintings.
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