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Copley Fine Art Auctions: Sporting Art - Prints

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Auction Name Sporting Art - Prints Total Sales (USD) 47,340.00
Auction Date February 16, 2018 - February 16, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 31,150.00
Sale Number #21618 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 49,350.00
Total Lots 41
Sold Lots 40 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 41,150.00
% of Lots Sold 97.56% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 69,350.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 68.26%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
119 Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928)

Eight Prints (one pictured)

USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 4,800.00
117 Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928)

Complete Set of Shooting Pictures, 1895

1895 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 4,200.00
83 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Dory Fisherman, 1927

1927 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,600.00
85 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Old Tom, 1926

1926 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,600.00
91 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

The Gunners' Blind, 1921

1921 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,760.00
94 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Dusk, 1914

1914 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,400.00
92 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Setting Decoys, 1923

1923 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,280.00
121 Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983)

Three Sporting Prints

USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,560.00
134 Richard E. Bishop (1887-1985)

Four Etchings

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 1,560.00
137 Bishop, Richard E.

"Bishop's Birds: Etchings of Water-fowl and Upland Game Birds."

1936 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 1,380.00
86 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Marsh Gunner, 1918

1918 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,320.00
89 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Ducks at Play, 1923

1923 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,320.00
118 Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928)

A Day's Shooting, 1903

1903 USD 100.00 - 300.00 USD 1,320.00
88 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Two Canoes, 1927

1927 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,200.00
93 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Running the Rapids, 1927

1927 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,200.00
124 George Edwards (British, 1693-1773)

Group of 26 Bird Engravings, 1743

1743 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,200.00
133

Three Federal Duck Stamps and Prints

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,140.00
114 Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983)

October Snow, 1959

1959 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 1,020.00
87 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

The Landing, 1915

1915 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 900.00
84 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Yellowlegs in Sunlight, 1928

1928 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 840.00
115 Aiden Lassell Ripley (1896-1969)

Woodcock Cover, 1963

1963 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 840.00
112 Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983)

The Quail Hunters, 1973

1973 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 780.00
126 Richard E. Bishop (1887-1975)

Two Color Prints

USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 780.00
132 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

The Start, 1922

1922 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 780.00
136 George Catlin (1796-1872)

"Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians." Volume 1 and 2.

1841 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 720.00
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
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    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    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.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    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.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    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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    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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.
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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.
    Forum Auctions
    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.
    Forum Auctions
    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.
    Forum Auctions
    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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