Ripley Auctions: PICKERS EXPRESS Timed Auction of Industrial, Scientific & Pop Culture Collectibles XIX, 12726, Indianapolis

Auction Details

Auction Date
January 27, 2026 - January 27, 2026
Page Size: 85 items in 4 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
10868

3 issues of Film Fun, mid 1930s woman centric movie "rag" , well read condition,

mid 1930s Not Available Unknown
10884

Lot of 18 issues of the Electrical Experimenter from the 1910's, 11 issues from 1916, 5 from 1915 and 2 from 1919

1916, 1915 and 1919 Not Available Unknown
10895

Wetmore Savage and Pittsco merchandise catalogs from 1925-26, Massachusetts,

1925-26 Not Available Unknown
10912

To Arms to Arms, poster, (reproduction?) 1861, in antique black lacquer frame,

1861 Not Available Unknown
10913

Lot of 20 vintage issues of The Electrical Experimenter, 10 from 1917 and 10 from 1918

1917 -1918 Not Available Unknown
10914

Vintage 1979 Smithsonian Exhibition Posted: Edison & The Electric Age: 100 Years.

1979 Not Available Unknown
10919 William Harnden Foster,

Pair of framed train-themed prints/drawings:, The Twentieth Century Limited of the New York Central Lines 'The Greatest Train in the World' lithograph

1922 Not Available Unknown
10922

Lot of 6 vintage General Electric Adventure Series educational comic books, Adventures Inside the Atom, Adventures in Electricity No. 6, ...

Not Available Unknown
10923

Lot of 32 vintage issues of Radio News magazine from 1920's-1940's

1920's-1940's Not Available Unknown
10924

Vintage radio & technology periodicals/publications; Science And Innovation: Nov. 1927, Nov.-Dec. 1928, Popular Science Monthly, Feb. & Mar. 1925, ...

Not Available Unknown
10934

Motograph Science Charts set for science projects, schools, and clubs, ages 8-14. Used condition, 1959,

1959, Not Available Unknown
10941

Webster Electric Company Catalog R-48A from January 1923 features radio apparatus, specifically headphones

1923 Not Available Unknown
10942

35 Easy Lessons in Radio, copyright 1922 Shrewsberry publishing, very good condition

1922 Not Available Unknown
10943

Wireless Construction and Installation for Beginners, part of the Arts & Sciences No. 5 series,

New York, 1919 Not Available Unknown
10946

Collection of Bulova promotional cardboard stand advertisements, period antique,

Not Available Unknown
10947

9 Radio, Tube, Equipment, Service, etc hints and Installation booklets, 1930s/40s,

1930s/40s, Not Available Unknown
10956 Ambrose Bearse

Fantastic Debunking Fables, Ambrose Bearse, little blue book number 1081, 1911,

1911, Not Available Unknown
10957

Wehman Bros. New Book of 153 Tricks, illustrated guide containing various parlor tricks and games, 1907

1907 Not Available Unknown
10959

1916 JL Kennedy, fancy groceries promotional calendar, Watertown, New York

1916 Not Available Unknown
10960

2 vintage maps, Hagstrom's Map of New York City, 1939 (?) Edition and a Prest O Lite mini roadmap of Ontario Canada, 1925

1939, 1925 Not Available Unknown
10961

Mounted antique rendering of the generating and transforming stations of the Niagara Falls power company

Not Available Unknown
10966

Opportunity lot 11 issues of life magazine from 1943

1943 Not Available Unknown
10967

Opportunity lot 18 issues of life magazine from the year 1946 some duplicates

1946 Not Available Unknown
10968

Opportunity lot of life magazines, 11 issues from 1945 6 issues 1944

1945, 1944 Not Available Unknown
10979

4 books, collectible radios, synthesizers, Tesla: Master of Lightning,

Not Available Unknown
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000