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VOL. 43, NO. 4 FRIDAY JANUARY 27, 2012
Diverse, Unusual Lots In Toy, Doll, Advertising Sale hours taken to bring the piece to known as “Millionaire Dude” life. A true work of art, this sold for $6,325. piece sold for $8,050 versus a Rare automata included a $3,000 to phenomenal Alexandre Theroude barrel organ monkey automaton. The piece depicts a duet of courtly dressed monkeys playing their cello and violin, flanking a central simian magician. Backed by a Thibouville Lamy barrel organ, it went out at $19,550. With an array of interesting movements all their own, the auction continued with a collection of cast-iron mechanical banks. Highlights a Shepard Hardware Mason bank depicting a bricklayer and his assistant plying their trade sold for $2,300; and a Boy on Trapeze bank in very good original condition that sold for $2,300. The sale continued with a sizeable selection of dolls including some exceptional French bebes. A rare 24-inch Series B Jules Steiner closed Do you like old mouth bebe with pale bisque advertising pieces like this? and a face so enchanting, she Antique advertising included an extremely rare 1922 Coca-Cola five panel Find out found favour with many a bidcardboard window display. Entitled “Four Seasons”, its brilliant color, detailed lithography, and captivating where der, changing hands at well images of beautiful women made for a welcome addition to a more advanced collection. Estimated to sell for $15,000 above her $7,500 to $9,500 estithey’re being to $20,000, it was a good investment at $16,100. mate to bring $21,850. An sold. Just scan $4,000 estimate. A Fine Art Model extremely rare 7-inch all-bisque this QR code American National. The ladder $18,975. The diversity of the sale of a die-cast, semi-cutaway World doll with an unusual swivel waist truck with deep red original paint with your extended to even more contempo- War II Corsair navy fighter plane along with the usual jointed arms and yellow pinstripes, several smart phone. wooden ladders, a spotlight, head- rary objects whose characteristics was nearly as impressive. and legs, and painted molded This toy joined several other pop- lights, running boards, and bell at had perhaps traditionally antique With folding wings, fine boots was a real charmer, selling of the ular Lehmann windup toys such the front was likely the envy of the sensibilities of quality and detail. detailing for $10,350 against an estimate of as a scarce Lehmann Echo motor- neighborhood. Ex-Kaufman col- These kit models, built to exacting engine, including a $6,000 to $7,000. lection, it sold for standards spared no detail. One working joystick in The advertising portion of the example was Sapor the cockpit, this $20,125. It was such auction included a varied selecjoined by another Modelltechnik’s scale model for a piece flew to tion of signage in an array of catsoaring egories. Coca-Cola produced one of Kaufman’s 1929 Bentley Blower, which fea- $5,175, some of the most memorable former treasures, tured a working electric motor, past its $1,500 to advertising pieces around. an American shift-able gears, and more. $2,500 estimate. Of particular Included in this auction was National Buick Consisting of over 4,000 pieces, one can imagine the hours upon interest in the aucan extremely rare 1922 tion was a collecCoca-Cola five panel tion of rare jointed cardboard window disSchoenhut Safari figplay. Entitled “Four ures and animals creSeasons,” its brilliant ated to commemocolor, detailed lithorate Theodore graphy, and captiA rare and sensational vating images of Roullet Decamps beautiful women automaton with a made for a welJumeau head and come addition to retaining its original a more advanced box was another highcollection. It was light worthy of note. a good investment Depicting a motley at the $16,100 selling clown beating a base price. Also included drum, it went out at $13,800 against expectawas a scarce Cocations of $8,500 Cola paper sign to $12,500. from the s a m e Roosevelt’s e r a trip to picAfrica in turing the early 1900s on behalf of the Smithsonian. Included was a wooden portrayal of Roosevelt Think automatons are A fabulous reverse on glass sign for Scott’s Emulsion himself that sold for $2,300. A selneat? Then you’ll want fish oil supplement featured a central graphic of an dom seen Arab character from the to check out next week’s issue! old salt fisherman with a huge sturgeon on his back. series also found his way to the In great untouched condition the sign more than auction block, finding a buyer at two beautiful women enjoying a tripled the high end of its $2,000-$3,000 estimate to $3,450. Also quite scarce was a picnic lunch made perfect of bring $9,200. Native Chief figure in his original course by the inclusion of garb that brought $2,990, surpass- America’s favorite beverage. It cycle and rider in exceptional pedal car roadcondition. It went out at $2,875. ster that was ing an $800 to $1,200 estimate. went out at $6,900. Other advertising included an And a rare, large 40-inch Other German tin windups mounted to a included a highly rare and amus- green porcelain A scarce 1920s Coca-Cola paper sign picturing two beau- Schoenhut store display depicting unusual papier maché figural dising toy featuring comic charac- barber chair tiful women enjoying a picnic lunch made perfect of the popular Palmer Cox Brownie play for Keene’s foot salve. This ters Mutt & Jeff by Gunthermann. pedestal early course by the inclusion of America’s favorite beverage. figure with bulging eyes, portly wild piece depicts a personified Jeff rides piggyback as the toy in its lifetime. It Sometimes seen in calendar form, this image is rarely belly, and spindly legs was a rare man’s foot with a wide open bounces and rolls along; it sold sold within its seen in this fashion. It went out at $6,900 against a presale opportunity. One of only a handful mouth smile and each toe as for $3,680 within expectations. estimate for estimate of $6,000 to $10,000. known to exist, this wild character (Continued on page 7) idders were wound up during James D. Julia Auction’s Two-Day Toy, Doll, and Advertising event in Fairfield, Maine. Showcased in the sale was a diverse array of American and European toys, mechanical banks, fine French and German dolls, antique advertising, salesman samples, coin-operated machines, music boxes, and other miscellaneous treasures. Bidders were treated to a taste of the unusual with one of the more elusive of tin windup toys, the Boxer Rebellion clockwork toy by Lehmann. One of only a handful known to exist, this detailed toy with political undertones was in exceptional original condition and came to the block with a $15,000 to $20,000, selling for $18,400.
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