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Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall
All prices include the buyer’s premium
Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, Gold Rush-era jeans, Marklin Fidelitas clown train,
CA$54,870, Miller & Miller $114,000, Holabird $84,000, Bertoia Auctions

A Rolex Cosmograph A pair of miner’s work-pants
Daytona watch, Ref. recovered from the 1857
116515, a model first sinking of the S.S. Central
introduced in 1963, with America, the oldest known
18kt Everose gold, sold California Gold Rush-era
for $54,870 in an online- jeans of their kind, possibly
only Luxury Watches Sale made by or for Levi Strauss, A rare Marklin “Fidelitas” clown train, 37
held November 19th by sold for $114,000 at an auc- inches long with all original paint, sold for
Miller & Miller Auctions, tion held December 3rd by $84,000 at an auction held Nov. 17-18 by
Ltd., based in New Holabird Western Americana Bertoia Auctions in Vineland, NJ. Also, a
Hamburg, Ontario, Canada. Also, a Rolex Day- Collections in Reno, NV. Tippco lithographed tin Santa car, 12 inches
Date “President” watch, Ref. 18038, circa 1988, Also, the historic brass name long, rolled away for $60,000; a Santa belsnickle
with 18kt yellow gold case, made $17,335; and tag and keys from the ship’s with reindeer-drawn sleigh on platform pull-toy
a De Grisogono Grande ladies’ watch, Swiss, Purser, Edward W. Hull, rang up $102,300; accompanied by possibly its original wooden
circa 2001, with gently curved silhouette style, and the lid to the oldest known Wells crate realized $50,400; and a Hubley cast-iron
brought $14,735. Fargo treasure shipment box changed hands Hill Climber motorcycle, olive green with nickel
for $99,600. wheels, made $48,000.
Alphonse Mucha poster art,

$78,000, Poster Auctions Int’l “Don’t Tread on Me” flag, Abercrombie painting,
$28,566, Hake’s Auctions $437,500, Hindman
Poster art by the
French Belle Epoque A circa 1864 A 1947 paint-
master Alphonse “Don’t Tread on ing by Gertrude
Mucha, Princezna Me” Civil War- Abercrombie
Hyacinta (Princess era Confederate (American,
Hyacinth), 1911, sold Gadsden flag, 1909-1947),
for $78,000 at Rare evoking Ben Untitled,
Posters Auction #88 Franklin’s 1754 (Woman with
held November 13th political cartoon Tethered Horse
by Poster Auctions of a disjointed snake with the caption “Join Free and Moon),
International in New or Die,” 18 inches by 25 inches, sold for $28,566 23 inches by 28 inches, sold for $437,500, a
York City. Also, Geo at a Pop Culture auction held Nov. 15-16 new world auction record for the artist, at a
Ham’s Amilcar (1924) by Hake’s Auctions in York, PA. Also, hand- Post-War & Contemporary Auction held
left the room for $28,800; Rosa Bonheur’s colored stat paper sheets for the 1987 Marvel December 14th by Hindman in Chicago. Also,
Buffalo Bill / The Last of the Great Scouts Masterworks #1 hardcover book that reprints the Subterrachial Bop Boop (1967) by Gladys
(1905) realized $20,400; Roger Broder’s 1963 Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1, #1, with Nilsson (American, b.1940) realized $75,000;
La Plage de Calvi, Corse (1928) went for artwork by Steve Ditko, commanded $14,437. and Locus (complete portfolio of 6) (1972-1975)
$15,600; and Adolfo Hohenstein’s Tosca (1899) by Dorothea Rockburne (Canadian, b. 1932),
reached $40,800. Diamond Planet Robot, rose to $46,875.
$33,210, Milestone Auctions
Chanel shoulder bag, Bo Bartlett painting,
$4,062, Crescent City An original $352,800, Freeman’s
Yonezawa
A classic double-flap (Japanese) 10- A monumental
Chanel shoulder bag inch tin wind- 2015 painting by
in black quilted up Diamond American artist Bo
lambskin calf leather Planet Robot Bartlett, titled The
with gold hardware with repro Promised Land,
sold for $4,062 at a box sold for sold for $352,800
Holiday Estates & $33,210 at a Winter Toy Extravaganza held during American
Couture Auction held December 10th by Milestone Auctions in Art Week held
December 2nd by Willoughby, OH. Also, a Masudaya (Japanese) Dec. 4-6 by Freeman’s in Philadelphia. Also,
Crescent City Auction Gallery in New Orleans, 15-inch battery-op Target Robot from the Gang William Herbert Dunton’s Grizzly Bear
LA. Also, an oil painting Portrait of a Lady with of Five robot series, with its correct dart gun and followed closely at $302,400; Edward Willis
Fan by Fernand Toussaint (French/Belgian, dart, brought $14,400; and a Distler (German) Redfield’s Winter Brook earned $151,200;
1873-1956) went for $2,176; an early 20th 8-inch tin windup Directional Policeman Robert Spencer’s Courtyard at Noon achieved
century Louis Vuitton steamer trunk finished at car with comical bug-eyed driver and graphics $63,000; Charles Burchfield’s The Garden Path
$1,920; and an etching by Charles Marion hit $14,400. rose to $119,700; and Everett Shinn’s
Russell (1864-1926) breezed to $1,024. Philadelphia Docks went for $113,400.

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