Auction Update Review
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For the week ending Saturday
September 1st, 2012 16 auctions were archived to the AED; 1 in
Mexican pesos, 1 in Australian dollars, 7 in US dollars and 7 in British
pounds. Turnover was light at
$1,511,409. Four thousand and
seventy-seven lots were offered and 3,225 sold for a 79% success rate. The strongest sale results were achieved at
Lyon and Turnbull, the UK auction house.
They offered rare books, maps and manuscripts on August 29th
and realized $624,088, 130% of their aggregate high estimate for all lots.
For the week three auctions reached
100% of their total high estimate:
Lyon and Turnbull. Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts on August 29th: 130%
Rupert Toovey and Co. Photographs, Autographs and Ephemera on
August 14th: 127%
Rupert Toovey and Co. Prints on August 15th: 116%
Five sales sold 80% or more of
their lots:
Heritage Auctions. Posters.
Online bidding ended July 15th: 96%
Heritage Auctions. Comics.
Online bidding ended July 15th: 95%
Australian Book Auctions. Books on August 27th: 90%
Lyon and Turnbull. Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts on August 29th: 83%
Eldred’s. Japanese Art on August 22nd: 80%
For the week ahead the fall season
gets underway. Fourteen sales
are scheduled:
Mon. Sept. 3rd Christie’s. The London Sale [7858]. 51 lots
Tues. Sept. 4th Bruun Rasmussen. Books [1236].
247 lots
Wed. Sept. 5th Old World Auctions. Maps, etc. [141]. 803 lots
Thurs. Sept. 6th Antiquarian Auctions. Rare Books online bidding ends today
[21]. 382 lots
Heritage
Auctions. Rare Books online bidding ends
today.
Fri. Sept. 7th Keys Fine Arts. Prints [1044]. 391 lots.
Skinner,
Inc. Fine Prints [2609B]. 251 lots
Sat. Sept 8th Clars Auction Gallery. Prints, Photographs [90812]
Guernsey’s. The Roger Tory Peterson Auction [31203]. 558 lots
Neal
Auction Co. Fall Estates Auction
[90812]. 7 selected lots
Sun. Sept. 9th Clars Auction Gallery. Prints, Photographs [90812]
National
Book Auctions. Books, Art, Ephemera and
Collectibles [90912]
National
Book Auctions. Books and Ephemera – Grosz,
Maps, Coins, Dickens, etc. [09092012]
Neal
Auction Company [90812]. 7 selected lots
It promises to be a complex fall
season.
Bruce McKinney
AE
September 2nd, 2012