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Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: Splendor Auction - Part One, Day 1

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Auction Name Splendor Auction - Part One, Day 1 Total Sales (USD) 34,440.00
Auction Date July 09, 2021 - July 09, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 26,800.00
Sale Number #70921 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 42,000.00
Total Lots 36
Sold Lots 31 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 29,700.00
% of Lots Sold 86.11% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 46,100.00
Unsold Lots 5 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 74.71%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1089 ALBERT STEINER (SWITZERLAND, 1877-1965)

Am Silverplanarsee - Oberingadin

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,300.00
1091 ALBERT STEINER (SWITZERLAND, 1877-1965)

Ueber dem St. Moritzersee

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,300.00
1090 ALBERT STEINER (SWITZERLAND, 1877-1965)

Piz Cambrena - Piz Palu - Bellavista- Bernmagruppe

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,640.00
1075

COFFEE TRADE SIGN

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,520.00
1071

HAND PAINTED CHAMPAGNE ADVERTISING SIGN

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,280.00
1215 EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (1868-1952)

Blackfoot Tipis,

1926 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,920.00
1092 RICHARD AVEDON (NY, 1923-2004) -

2-VOL LTD ED BOX SET: AUTOBIOGRAPHY & EVIDENCE 1944-1994

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,680.00
1087 NORBERTINE VON BRESSLERN-ROTH (AUSTRIA, 1891-1978)

Untitled (Greyhounds), 1926

1926 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,560.00
1329

FRAMED 1857 SCHOOLROOM/TOWN HALL MAP OF LINCOLN COUNTY MAINE BY HOPKINS

Philadelphia, 1857 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,440.00
1088 ALBERT STEINER (SWITZERLAND, 1877-1965)

Fruhling am Walensee (Ost-Schweiz)

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,320.00
1057 John W. Elder

RAILROAD LOCOMOTIVE DESIGN, D.L.&W. ENGINE 1501, FRAMED

1936 USD 2,000.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,200.00
1058

RAILROAD LOCOMOTIVE DESIGN, ERIE RR, NY, FRAMED

USD 2,000.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,200.00
1076

HAND PAINTED OYSTERS TRADE SIGN

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 960.00
1328

RARE 1862 SCHOOLROOM/TOWN HALL MAP OF MAINE BY HALLING & CHACE

Portland, 1862 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 960.00
1330

RARE PRE-CIVIL WAR THOMASTON, MAINE SCHOOLROOM MAP

1855 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 840.00
1069

HAND PAINTED IRISH WHISKEY ADVERTISING SIGN

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 780.00
1138 SUZANNE DUCHAMP (FRANCE, 1889-1963) WITH JACQUES (GASTON DUCHAMP) VILLON (FRANCE, 1875-1963)

Pot of Flowers, 1929

1929 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 720.00
1216

LIFETIME COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 720.00
1070

NYC ITALIAN RESTAURANT INTERIOR SIGN

1971 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 600.00
1200

BINDER (140) HARP THEMED POSTCARDS

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 600.00
1085 TASHA TUDOR (NH/VT/MA, 1915-2008)

Signed Croquis Charcoal Sketch of a Goat by the famed book illustrator

1970 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 540.00
1351

1928 FOLIO OF ORIGINAL POCHOIR PRINTS "INSPIRATIONS" BY ANDRE DURENCEAU (NY/CA/FRANCE, 1904-1985)

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 540.00
1345

A PR OF EUROPEAN BOTANICAL HAND COLORED LITHOS, FRAMED

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 450.00
1217

RARE NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK

1837 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 420.00
1094 SABINE WEISS (FRANCE/SWITZERLAND, 1924 - )

Cat in a Cold Lap

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 330.00
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
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    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
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