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1983 Basquiat print, “The Bat Man” card, 40 American Statesmen,
$1.119 million, Doyle $64,906, Hake’s Auctions $68,181, RR Auction

A large-scale, “The Bat Man” card, A rare, limited-edition
hand-colored one of 24 cards in set of 40 American
screenprint Wolverine’s 1936 Statesmen biographies,
from 1983, on Strange True Stories each adorned with the
Stonehenge gum card set, sold for autographs of the
heavyweight $64,906 at an auction Founding Fathers, sold for $68,181 in an online
paper, signed held Nov. 14-15 by Hake’s Auctions in York, Fine Autograph and Artifacts auction held Oct.
and dated lower right and numbered 23/24 PA. Also, John Byrne’s original pen-and-ink 20-Nov. 8 by RR Auction, based in Boston.
verso by New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, cover art for Action Comics #588 (DC Comics, Also, two large leather swatches from President
titled Back of the Neck, sold for $1.119 million May 1987), with images of Superman, Kennedy’s assassination limousine finished at
at a Prints & Multiples auction held November Hawkman, and Hawkwoman, went for $46,865; a Martin Luther King, Jr. signed letter
1st by Doyle in New York. The work had a $35,695; and a copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja on the Civil Rights Movement garnered
sheet size, less frame, of 55 inches by 106 1/2 Turtles #1 (1984), the original comic book $29,283; and an Apple iPhone, factory-sealed,
inches, and was from an edition of 24 prints and introducing the Turtles, graded CGC 9.2 NM, 8GB, hit $26,488.
three artist’s proofs. It was a new record price for realized $31,152.
the print. Curtis Edwards set,
I Y Japan tin motorcycle, $882,000, Hindman
1837 U.S. 25-cent coin, $25,830, Milestone Auctions
$282,000, Legend Rare Coin A complete subscriber’s set
A rare I Y Japan tin of Curtis S. Edward’s sem-
An 1837 U.S. 25-cent friction Romance inal The North American
coin, graded PCGS MS67, motorcycle, the Indian, arguably the most
sold for $282,000 in “large blue version,” complete ethnographic
Regency Auction 61, 12 inches long, sold record of the Native
ending November 3rd, for $25,830 at a sale American peoples of North America, sold for
by Legend Rare Coin of items from Elmer’s Auto and Toy Museum in $882,000 in back-to-back sales held Nov. 9-10
Auction, based in Lincroft, Fountain City, WI, held October 28th by by Hindman in Chicago. Also, a third edition,
NJ. Also, an 1893 U.S. Milestone Auctions in Willoughby, OH. Also, a later issue, of Mark Catesby’s The Natural
$10 gold coin, graded CACG PR65+, realized Tonka #210 Road Builders set, containing a Big History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama
$135,125; an 1806 Browning U.S. 10-cent Mike dump truck and other pieces finished at Islands brought $81,900; and a copy of John
coin, graded PCGS MS64, topped out at $19,800; and a Marusan Japan tin friction James Audubon’s The Birds of America rang
$58,750; a 1916-S U.S. 5-cent coin, graded Indian Motor Cycle with “Indian” and “Chief” up $37,800.
PCGS MS67, brought $32,250; and a 1915 graphic on the gas tank achieved $19,065.
U.S. 5-cent coin, graded PCGS PR68, went to a Eric Clapton guitar,
determined bidder for $31,725. Mills “Hats Off” lung tester,
$119,000, Morphy Auctions $1.27 million, Julien’s
Painting by Pierre Renoir, Eric Clapton’s

$78,000, Thomaston Place An original circa-1904 Mills 1-cent iconic “The
“Hats Off” penny arcade lung tester Fool” guitar, a
An impressionist oil on sold for $119,000 at an auction 1964 Gibson
canvas waterside painting of held Oct. 27-30 in Las Vegas, NV custom-
a young girl with by Morphy Auctions, based in painted guitar played by Clapton throughout
flowers sold for $78,000 at Denver, PA. Also, a circa-1930s his career with the band Cream, sold for $1.27
a Majestic auction held Chevrolet Art Deco single-sided million at an auction held at the Hard Rock
Nov. 10-12 by Thomaston porcelain neon sign with Telechron Café in Nashville by Julien’s, based in Beverly
Place Auction Galleries in clock settled at $98,400; a circa- Hills, CA. Also, a 1959 Gibson Les Paul
Thomaston, ME. Also, 1903 Caille 5-cent and 25-cent Standard Sunburst guitar soared to $585,000;
John Frederick Kensett’s painting depicting “Tourist” cast-iron slot machine Johnny Cash’s Gibson Epiphone PR325S
Mount Monadnock (NH) went for $38,400; went for $66,000; and a circa-1930s acoustic guitar brought $63,500; and Eddie
and a silver mounted ancient Egyptian pink Oldsmobile single-sided porcelain Van Halen’s stage-played Charvel EVH electric
granite toenail fragment, purportedly from a neon sign with Art Deco look guitar hit $117,000.
colossal statue of Ramses II, who reigned circa achieved $49,200.
1279-1213 BC, changed hands for $38,750. Chinese snuff bottle,
1962 Ferrari 330 LM / $13,970, Tremont Auctions
Buddy Holly concert poster, 250 GTO,
$250,000, Heritage Auctions $51.7 million, RM / Sotheby’s An early 20th century
interior-painted Chinese
A “Winter Dance Party” snuff bottle, showing a hen
concert poster featuring Buddy A 1962 Ferrari 330 LM / and chicks and designed for
250 GTO, Chassis 3765,
Holly & the Crickets, J. P. sold for $51.7 million the scholar Ding Erzhong
(“The Big Bopper”) Richardson, during Marquee Week (1865-1935), sold for
and Richie Valens at the Sales held November $13,970 at an auction held
Riverside Ballroom in Green 13th by RM / Sotheby’s October 22nd by Tremont
Bay, Wisconsin on Feb. 1, 1950 in New York City. It was the most ever paid for Auctions in Sudbury,
(“The Day the Music Died”), a Ferrari at auction. In Modern and MA. Also, a 19th century
the only such poster known to survive, sold for Contemporary Art, Claude Monet’s Peupliers au Chinese porcelain bottle
$250,000 at an auction held November 19th by bord de l’Epte, temps couvert from 1891 fetched modeled as the figure of Li Tieh Kuai, one of
Heritage Auctions in Dallas, TX. Also, a paint- $30.8 million; Monet’s Le Moulin de Limetz the Eight Immortals, changed hands for
ing by the late singer Jimmy Buffett, done for achieved $25.6 million; Untitled by Mark $12,065; and a Chinese bottle decorated in
the 2011 New Orleans Jazz Fest, hammered Rothko earned $23.9 million; and Pablo famille rose enamels, showing the Jaiqing mark
for $137,000. (1796-1820) achieved $11,430.
Picasso’s Compotier et guitar made $23.5million.
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