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Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall
All prices include the buyer’s premium
Copy of Tales to Astonish, 1923 Babe Ruth baseball card, Granville Redmond oil,
$18,125, Bruneau & Co. CA$23,600, Miller & Miller $237,500, Andrew Jones

A copy of Marvel Comics A 1923 Willards Chocolates An oil painting by
Tales to Astonish #90 (April Babe Ruth baseball card from Granville Redmond
1967), graded CGC 9.8, a rare Canadian-issue set, (American, 1871-
featuring the first appear- graded BSA 3 VG, sold 1935), titled Rolling
ance of the Abomination for $17,730 in an online hills with California
and the first Silver Age Advertising & Historic poppies, sold for
appearance of Byrrah, sold Objects auction held January $237,500 at the sale
for $18,125 at the sale of 21st by Miller & Miller of the Jack and
Part 2 of the Andy Yanchus Auctions, Ltd., in New Ellen Phillips collec-
collection held January Hamburg, Ontario, Canada. tion held Jan. 15-16 by Andrew Jones Auctions
1st by Bruneau & Co. Also, a cutaway model of a in Los Angeles. Also, an oil painting by Guy
Auctioneers in Cranston, 1962 Vickers VC-10 BOAC Rose (American, 1867-1925), titled View from
RI. Also, a copy of Marvel Comics Marvel (later British Air) jet plane Arroyo Terrace, Pasadena brought $237,500;
Premiere #28 (Feb. 1976), graded CGC 9.8, soared to $14,200; and a monumental Coca- and an oil painting by Edgar Alwin Payne
featuring the first appearance of the Legion of Cola porcelain sign from 1939, 7 feet wide, (American, 1883-1947), titled Fishermen’s
Monsters, changed hands for $6,125. made $7,100. Harbor, Concarneau, France, hit $81,250.

George Viavant watercolor, Lalique Anemones Grand vase, Tobacco trade figure,

$13,750, Crescent City $24,200, Ahlers & Ogletree $121,500, Jeffrey S. Evans
A watercolor on paper by A Lalique (French) An American folk art carved
George Louis Viavant (La., Anemones grand vase and and painted tobacco trade
1872-1925), titled Nature pedestal sold for $24,200 figure depicting Sir Walter
Morte: Crawfish, sold at a sale of items from Raleigh, attributed to the
for $13,750 at a Winter entertainment attorney shop of Samuel Robb, sold
Estates Auction held Jan. Joel A. Katz held January for $121,500 at a Premier
20-21 by Crescent City 12th by Ahlers & Americana Auction held
Auction Gallery in New Ogletree in Atlanta, GA. Nov. 17-19 by Jeffrey S.
Orleans, LA. Also, a 101- Also, an artist proof’s Evans & Associates in
piece set of Herend porce- bronze sculpture on a Mount Crawford, VA.
lain dinnerware in the brass base by Tolla Inbar Also, a first edition of The
“Rothschild Bird” pattern (German/Israeli, b. 1958) Book of Mormon settled at
climbed to $8,125; a circa brought $20,570, an oil on canvas painting by $60,750; a 19th century
1880 French provincial Henri II carved oak Robert Jessup (American, b. 1952) realized American School portrait of
bookcase earned $4,062; and a painting by $18,150; and a Gibson Les Paul guitar custom- a lovely Southern belle rose to $42,525; and a
Alexander Drysdale (La., 1870-1934) titled made for Mr. Katz rose to $7,865. Daniel Seagle 15-gallon stoneware jar changed
Louisiana Marsh, hit $4,062. hands for $25,515.
Paul Revere silver pitcher,
1902 Reno, Nevada $10 $138,000, Weiss Auctions Wesselmann artwork,
banknote, $162,500, Clars Auction
An original Paul Revere
$12,500, Holabird Western silver pitcher, 6 1/4 An artwork com-
Americana inches tall, identified prising oil, fabric,
to Benjamin Russell and collage cutouts
A 1902 $10 (1761-1845), the on a 7-inch by
red seal ban- American journalist 7-inch tin by Tom
knote from who established the Wesselmann
The Farmers Columbian Centinel, (American, 1931-
& Merchants sold for $138,000 in 2004), titled Little
National an online-only estates Great American
Bank in Reno, Nevada, PMG graded Very Fine auction held Jan. 18-19 Nude #13 (1962),
20, sold for $12,500 at a Pikes Peak or Bust! by Weiss Auctions, based in Lynbrook, NY. signed, sold for
Auction held Jan. 19-22 by Holabird Western Also, Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski’s oil on $162,500 at a Fine Collectors Auction held
Americana Collections, LLC in Reno. Also, an canvas, titled Bedouin Camp, fetched $99,000; November 20th by Clars Auction Gallery in
1852 slave broadside offering a reward for “the and a Charles Schulz original Peanuts strips Oakland, CA. Also, a “Golden Sea Horse”
apprehension of (two) runaway Negroes” (both 10-panel Sunday page, dated 12/26/1982, bicycle designed for Playland at Sutro Baths in
females), hammered for $8,1750; and a circa gaveled for $44,400. San Francisco, hit $15,000; and an Italian
1868 dark lime green Dr. Boerhaave’s Stomach micromosaic of the Doves of Pliny by the Vatican
Bitters bottle, 8 3/4 inches tall, reached $8,435. Mosaic Studio made $13,750.

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