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Toys Do Well At Hardy’s Weekly Monday Sale Collectible Matchbox Cars Sell FRIDAY DECEMBER 25, 2020 • VOL. 51, NO. 52
Bertoia’s Two-Day Auction Hits $2.3 Million; Second Session Ran Until 1:30 A.M. Large German Composition Santa Sleigh On Wheeled Platform With Reindeer Sells For $72,000
Haar’s Auction of Dillsburg, Pa., also known as Hardy Auction Services, run by Vickie Hardy, held a special one of its weekly Monday night sales on Dec. 7, with a good assortment of toys, antiques and various collectibles. Vintage and new Matchbox cars have an audience and good market right now. A Matchbox Series Gift G1 set realized $1,200. Several Matchbox gift sets sold, one bringing $520, $270; a large cast-iron school, $120; and one $675. The latter was a G9 gift and a handmade folk art set. A Matchbox G1 gift set realized rail car sold for $400. To learn more, call Vickie Hardy $1,200. A Mr. Robot antique toy went for at 717-432-3779.
AAN Current News The handmade rail car sold for $400.
This large German composition Santa sleigh on wheeled platform with six belled reindeer, 35 inches long, sold for $72,000 against an estimate of $1,000-$1,500. If there were a trophy for “But every bid was recorded, stamina and composure at the and, in the end, the prices, auction podium, it especially on Bob surely would Merck’s phenomenal have been awardHalloween antiques, ed to Michael went beyond anyBertoia on Nov. 14 thing we could have around 1:30 a.m. That’s predicted,” said Bertoia’s when an intense co-founder Jeanne two-day marathon Bertoia. auction of toys, “Some bidders trains and holiday had begged to be antiques finally allowed inside. One came to a close at even said he would wrap Bertoia’s gallery, himself from head to toe with a $2.3 million in plastic wrap, but we gross and bidders clamoring for more. A d h e r i n g This Gunthermann “Felix the Cat” merrystrictly to COVID go-round tin windup character toy, one of guidelines that few known examples, realized $20,400. govern New Jersey businesses, Bertoia’s initially could not had planned to accommodate a make an limited number of preregistered, exception for socially distanced bidders at their a n y o n e , ” gallery. “We wanted to have a live Jeanne said. attendance because so many peo- “During the ple told us they wanted to come. weeks prior to We thought we would be able to the auction, we control it, but the response was so would allow overwhelming, we had to change one person, or course and err on the side of safe- couple, at a ty. The bidding ended up being by time into the remote methods only, which were gallery to preabsentee, by phone and through view. If they two bidding platforms, Bertoia Live didn’t have and LiveAuctioneers,” said Michael masks, gloves Bertoia, the company’s president and hand This German clothand principal auctioneer. sanitizer, we dressed composition Online participation during provided it. Santa on nodding glassboth days was relentless. At times, One couple eyed polar bear atop Continued on “Iceberg,” 29 inches tall, there were communication lags due page 2 to the sheer number of bidders. sold for $36,000.
This old large cast-iron school/dinner bell sold for $120.
Skinner Sets Auction Record
What Is A Salt Cellar? on page 3
Andrew Clemens Patriotic Presentation Sand Art Bottle Sells for $275,000 An Andrew Clemens sand art waters percolating down through bottle, featured in an episode of the overlying limestones, charged “Antiques Roadshow” filmed at Hot with various minerals, stained the Springs, Ark., in 2002, set a record at sand with a vibrant palette of natSkinner’s American Furniture and ural colors. In bottles of different Decorative Arts online auction on sizes and types, Clemens constructNov. 23, when it sold for $275,000. ed works of art grain-by-grain using The most ideal attributes and specially devised tools, fish hooks auction elements were all present: and wands made of hickory to posiartist, design, condition, prove- tion the sand into incredibly meticnance, and competitive bidding ulous detailed images, often patri(the presale estimate was $50,000- otic constructs. $70,000). The meticulously crafted The bottle was presented to sand art bottle, one of a small Prosper Harvey Ellsworth. Born in group that survives today, was 1838, Ellsworth graduated from made by Andrew Clemens (1857-94), Rush Medical College in Chicago in ca. 1885-90. The 7.25-inch-tall bot- 1860. He served as a surgeon in the tle, decorated with an eagle, flag, 106th Illinois Volunteer Infantry mortar and pestle, and out- before moving to Hot Springs, Ark., stretched arms, was dedicated to in 1866. The bottle descended in Dr. Prosper Harvey Ellsworth “From Continued on page 2 Two Friends.” Born in Iowa, Clemens was a young child when he contracted encephalitis, and he later attended the Iowa State School for the Deaf. During his summer breaks, he visited Pikes Peak State Park along the Mississippi River in his home state. At the This rare Andrew Clemens sand art bottle, ca. 1885-90, sold for Pictured Rocks, $275,000.
Guyette & Deeter Set 15 New World Records For Decoy Makers on page 4
From “Peanuts” To “Pokémon,” “Batman” To “Super Mario Bros.,” Heritage Auctions Makes History on page 5
In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 4 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 4 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 5
FEATURED RESULTS: Guyette & Deeter Auction - November 20 & 21 - Page 4
AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . . on page 7 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 7