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Morphy Auctions: Toys and General Collectibles

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Auction Name	Toys and General Collectibles	Total Sales (USD)	223,328.00
Auction Date	November 06, 2024 - November 07, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	116,400.00
Sale Number	#110624	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	234,150.00
Total Lots	177
Sold Lots	163	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	120,450.00
% of Lots Sold	92.09%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	244,550.00
Unsold Lots	14	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	91.32%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1603	VERY RARE NO. 30 TY COBB 1914 CRACKER JACK BASEBALL CARD	1914	USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 35,840.00
1670	1977 TOPPS STAR WARS UNOPENED SERIES 1 WAX BOX	1977	USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 12,800.00
1604	SCARCE 1914 HONUS WAGNER CRACKER JACK BASEBALL CARD	1914	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 11,520.00
1739	1985 O-PEE-CHEE HOCKEY WAX BOX RVP - LEMIEUX	1985	USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 10,240.00
1714	1977 TOPPS FOOTBALL UNOPENED RACK BOX	1977	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 9,984.00
1726	1987/88 FLEER NBA BASKETBALL UNOPENED WAX BOX	1987/88	USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 9,600.00
1687	1963 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK PSA 7 - PITTSBURGH TEAM CARD	1963	USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 7,040.00
1703	1955 TOPPS ALL - AMERICAN FOOTBALL CELLO PACK, RED GRANGE - TOP	1955	USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 7,040.00
1668	1966 DONRUSS GREEN HORNET UNOPENED WAX BOX	1966	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 6,144.00
1686	1962 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO PACK - 3RD SER. GIANTS TEAM - TOP	1962	USD 3,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 5,888.00
1713	1977 TOPPS FOOTBALL UNOPENED WAX BOX	1977	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,120.00
1725	1981/82 TOPPS BASKETBALL WAX BOX	1981/82	USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 4,352.00
1718	1984 TOPPS FOOTBALL UNOPENED RACK BOX	1984	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,840.00
1727	1988/89 FLEER NBA BASKETBALL WAX BOX	1988/89	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,840.00
1679	1985 TOPPS WWF PRO WRESTLING UNOPENED RACK BOX	1985	USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 3,584.00
1728	2018-19 PANINI PRIZM 12 BASKETBALL CARDS PACK BOX		USD 1,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,584.00
2140	LOT OF 30 VARIOUS COMIC BOOKS		USD 300.00 - 600.00	USD 3,072.00
1695	1979 TOPPS BASEBALL CELLO BOX	1979	USD 1,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,816.00
1690	1975 TOPPS BASEBALL RACK PACK - YOUNT ON FRONT	1975	USD 400.00 - 800.00	USD 2,560.00
1719	1984 TOPPS FOOTBALL UNOPENED CELLO BOX	1984	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 2,560.00
2147	LOT OF OVER 40 VARIOUS COMIC BOOKS		USD 300.00 - 600.00	USD 2,432.00
1724	1978/79 TOPPS PRO BASKETBALL UNOPENED WAX BOX	1978/79	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 2,432.00
1376	RARE FRAMED BEATLES PIECE INCLUDING 3 ORIGINAL BEATLES AUTOGRAPHS: PAUL MCCARTNEY, JOHN LENNON & GEORGE HARRISON		USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,176.00
1675	1980 TOPPS EMPIRE STRIKES BACK SERIES 1 WAX BOX	1980	USD 1,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,176.00
1240	LOT OF 5: MECHANICAL BANK TRADE CARDS		USD 200.00 - 800.00	USD 2,048.00

Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€

Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €

Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€

Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€

Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€

Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€

Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000

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