For the week ending Saturday February 2^nd 20 auctions were archived to the AED; 11 in US dollars, 5 in British pounds, and 4 in euros.  Total turnover was $9,450,851, 90% of the aggregate high estimate of all lots offered.  Four thousand nine hundred and eighteen lots were offered and 3,480 sold for a 71% success rate.

One sale and it was a big one, Christie’s sale of Old Master Prints on January 29^th made $6,002,750.  No other sale reached a million dollars.

Five sales saw their proceeds reach 100% of the total of their high estimates and two other were close enough to mention them:

Doyle New York.  Prints and Books on January 29^th:  202%

Sothebys.  Property of the Estate of Giancarlo Baroni on January 29th:  146%

Dominic Winter Book Auctions.  Printed Books, Maps and Ephemera on January 20^th:  122%

Bruun Rasmussen.  Old Prints on January 28^th:  119%

Gray’s Auctioneers.  Prints on January 20^th:  109%

Alexander’s Autographs, Inc.  Autographs on January 20^th:  99%

Christies.  Old Master Prints:  98%

Nine sales saw 80% or more of their lots offered sell:

Sotheby’s.  Property of the Estate of Giancarlo Baroni on January 29th:  100%

Doyle New York.  Prints and Books on January 29^th:  100%

Heritage Auctions.  Rare Books online bidding ended January 31^st:  93%

Skinner, Inc.  Fine Prints on January 26^th:  91%

Eldred’s.  Prints and Books on January 26^th:  88%

Bruun Rasmussen.  Old Prints on January 28^th:  88%

Dominic Winter Book Auctions:  Printed Books, Maps and Ephemera on January 30^th:  86%

Alexander Autographs, Inc.  Autographs on January 30^th:  84%

Sotheby’s.  Audubon Prints on January 25^th:  82%

For the week ahead 13 sales are scheduled and 1,959 lots for these sales searchable in both the keyword and advanced searches:

Mon. Feb. 4^th      Bruun Rasmussen.  Old Prints [1306a].  8 lots

Tues. Feb 5^th              Bruun Rasmussen.  Modern Prints [1306b].  33 lots

                                    Christies.  Prints [2677].  5 lots

                                    Christies.  Prints [8254].  5 lots

Wed. Feb. 6^th              Dominic Winter Book Auctions.  Old Master, Modern and Japanese Prints [20613].  198 lots

Thurs. Feb. 7^th           Heritage Auctions.  Rare Book internet auction ends today [201306].  253 lots

                                    PBA Galleries.  Angling, Sporting, Natural History [499].  228 lots

Sat. Feb. 9^th                Artcurial Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan.  Comic Strips [20875].  111 lots

                                    Neret – Minet & Tessier.  Comic Strips [15193].  363 lots

Sun. Feb. 10^th             Blacksparrow.  Rare Village Autographed Books [21013].  231 lots

                                    Bonhams.  Books [21141].  27 lots

Here is a link  to an interactive spreadsheet of all reported auction results this week.  

The pattern of sales is uneven but the pace increasing.

Bruce McKinney

AE

Sunday February 3^rd, 2013