Auction Update Review
The Spring is upon us
For the week ending Saturday
February 9th 16 auctions were archived to the AED; 3 in British
pounds, 3 in euros and 10 in US dollars.
Three thousand five hundred and forty-one lots were offered and 2,572
sold for a 73% success rate. Total
turnover was $4,057,478.
One sale reached a million-dollars:
Guernsey’s. The Hans Sachs Poster Collection – Day 1 on
January 18th: $1,242,500
The Sachs sales, conducted in 3
parts over 3 days came within a hair of 3 million - $2,987,350
Three auctions saw their sales exceed
100% of the total of their high estimates:
Christies. Prints on February 5th: 146%
Keys Fine Arts. Prints on February 1st: 118%
Gray’s Auctioneer’s. Prints on January 30th: 109%
Dominic Winter Book Auctions came
close with their sale of Old Master, Modern and Japanese Prints on February 6th: 99%
Seven sales saw 80% or more of
their lots sell:
Christie’s. Prints on February 5th: 100%
Christie’s. Prints on February 5th: 100%
Heritage Auctions. Rare Books – online bidding ended February 7th: 94%
Guernsey’s. The Hans Sachs Poster Collection – Day 3 on
January 20th: 93%
Guernsey’s. The Hans Sachs Poster Collection – Day 1 on
January 18th: 92%
Skinner, Inc. Fine Prints on February 1st: 91%
Guernsey’s. The Hans Sachs Poster Collection – Day 2 on
January 19th: 82%
For the week ahead 4,236 lots are
offered in 14 sales:
Mon. Feb. 11th Bonhams. Period Art and Design: Books, Prints [21141]. 27 lots
Tues. Feb. 12th Bruun Rasmussen. Books [1307]. 210 lots
Wed. Feb. 13th Old
World Auctions. Maps Online bidding ends
today [143].
RR
Auction. Rare Manuscripts and Autographs
– online bidding ends today. 1,602 lots
Thurs. Feb. 14th Ader. Scientific Instruments [20821]. 135 lots
Aspire Auctions. Works on Paper – internet bidding ending today. 68 lots
Christie’s. Prints [1107]. 5 lots
Heritage
Auctions. Rare Book internet auction
ends today [201307]. 206 lots
Skinner. Discovery Auction: featuring Books and Manuscripts [2637M]. 198 lots
Swann
Galleries. Prints [2303]. 57 lots
Fri. Feb. 15th Neret
– Minet & Tessier. Posters [15194]. 532 lots
Sat. Feb. 16th Clars
Auction Gallery. Prints, Ephemera
[21613].
Stair
Auctioneers & Appriasers. The
Photograph Collection of Jan Cowles [21613].
298 lots
Click here to review all sales in a searchable format. To duplicate the range of sales mentioned here reset the start date to February 2nd. Our software captures the past 7 days so if you look in 3 days the date range, and the auctions archived, will have shifted.
We’re early in the spring season
but the pace is already brisk.
Bruce McKinney
AE
February 10th, 2013