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President’s Day Auction At Gateway
FRIDAY MARCH 24, 2017 • VOL. 48, NO. 12
Gateway Gallery Auction, located at 643 Kriner Road in Chambersburg, Pa., held a diverse President’s Day Auction on Feb 20. Among the highlights was a 2003 Harley Davidson soft tail springer, 100th anniversary, screaming eagle
Cordier’s March 26 Firearms Auction To Feature Colts, Rare WWII Flight Jacket, And Much More
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Swann Galleries’ Historic Photographs Sale Generates $1.5 Million Nine Works By Edward S. Curtis Sold On Feb. 14, Swann Galleries offered “Icons and Images: Photographs and Photobooks,” an auction featuring masterworks spanning the lifetime of the medium. The Valentine’s Day auction was well-timed, precisely 65 years to the day after Swann held the first U.S. auction dedicated to photographs, The Marshall Sale, on Feb. 14, 1952. The auction house, which is also celebrating A 1910 orotone by Edward S. Curtis, titled “The Rush its diamond anniversary Gatherer,” in its original frame, sold to the trade for $20,000. this year, has continued to honor that historical pedigree with such innovations as the first auction dedicated to vernacular photography, a field that vice president and director of photographs and photobooks Daile Kaplan has helped to bring into the mainstream. The Feb. 14 sale offered premier examples of both vernacular and fine art
A 1904 orotone by Edward S. Curtis, titled “Chief of the Desert, Navajo,” in its original frame, sold for $23,750. photography, earning more than $1.5 million in an auction that lasted nearly five hours. The sale featured a run of lots related to the moon landing and space exploration in the second half of the 20th century. There was heated bidding for a group of 22 “Portrait of Dorothy Norman,” by Alfred large cibachrome prints from NASA Stieglitz, is a silver print done 1930-36. It missions, 1965-84, leading to a final sold to a private collector for $20,000. price of $43,750, above a high estimate of $25,000. The lot sold to a private collector. A related archive of approximately 280 photographs of various Apollo missions, 1969-72, earned $5,460, while a set of 10 contemporary assemblages depicting the moon was sold for $6,250. Though 20th century works commanded most of the highest prices, the top lot of the sale “Clearing Winter Storm,” silver prints, 1944, by Ansel was a collection of 50 Adams, and printed in the 1970s, sold for $32,500 to a plates from Eadweard private collector. Continued on page 2
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This 2003 Harley Davidson soft tail springer, 100th anniversary, with screaming eagle exhaust, custom Harley wheels, mini ape hanger bars, upgraded top end, security system, and 9,575 miles, sold for $8,750.
The Flash #105, DC Comics 10 cents 2-3/59, CGC graded 4.5, sold for $1,500.
Rare One Sheet For “The Invisible Man” To Be Sold on page 4
Delaware Train Show And April Fool’s Toy Show Set For April 1 And 2 on page 4
A Paul Reed Smith six-string electric guitar realized $675.
New Gurley Show At Deerfield Fairgrounds Slated For New Hampshire Antiques Week Nan Gurley’s Children Unite And Form The Newest Show At Their Mother’s Favorite Venue Joshua and Rachel Gurley, the children of Nan Gurley, have announced the new Deerfield Antique Show at the Deerfield Fairgrounds to take place Monday, Aug. 7, at the beginning of Antiques Week in New Hampshire. This popular venue, just minutes from the heart of Manchester, N.H., is wellknown to most regular shoppers. It was not in use last year, as the late Nan Gurley had moved her “Americana Celebration” show to the Everett Arena in Concord, which is now managed by her husband, Peter Mavris. For the many dealers who could not adapt to that show’s format, the return to Deerfield is greeted with great enthusiasm. Many are already asking for their former spaces from when the show was held at the fairgrounds. “It’s really back by popular demand. So many dealers told us that they missed Deerfield, we just had to do it for them,” said Joshua Gurley.
Gurley’s Deerfield Show has a history of providing other dealers with last-minute pieces for their exhibits at other shows later in the week. Already committed are dealers from throughout New England, but also exhibitors from Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, South Carolina and Maryland. Rachel Gurley has been taking calls from dealers, who are quickly filling the roughly 100 exhibitor spaces. This show is not connected with Peter Mavris’ “Americana Celebration” at Everett Arena in Concord, which will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 8. Deerfield Fairgrounds offers both indoor and outdoor exhibitor spaces and easy access to parking. The show will open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission will be $10, with no early buying. For additional information, call either Joshua at 207-229-0403 or Rachel at 207-396-4255 or visit www.gurleyantiqueshows.com.
Morphy Auctions’ Las Vegas Coin-Op Event Is A Royal Flush, Realizing Over $3.8 Million on page 8
Bertoia’s Signature Sale On March 25 Sets New Standard For Quality And Rarity on page 10
In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 5 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 6 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 6
FEATURED AUCTION: Bertoia Auction - March 25 in Vineland, New Jersey - Page 10
AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . . on page 7 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 15