• 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: [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.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    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: 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.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • 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
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • Forum Auctions
    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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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    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
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Heritage Auctions: World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 6/30

Auction Reports

Auction Name World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 6/30 Total Sales (USD) 31,179.40
Auction Date July 07, 2020 - July 07, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 21,256.00
Sale Number #282027 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 31,884.00
Total Lots 150
Sold Lots 148 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 22,116.00
% of Lots Sold 98.67% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 33,174.00
Unsold Lots 2 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 93.99%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
86137

South Vietnam National Bank of Viet Nam 500 Dong ND (1955) Pick 10s2 Specimen PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

ND(1955) USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 750.00
86093

Isle Of Man Isle of Man Government 10 Pounds ND (1972) Pick 31b PMG Gem Uncirculated 65 EPQ.

ND(1972) USD 320.00 - 480.00 USD 690.00
86009

Bahamas Central Bank 100 Dollars 2000 Pick 67 PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

2000 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 564.00
86010

Bahamas Central Bank 100 Dollars 2009 Pick 76 PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

2009 USD 140.00 - 210.00 USD 564.00
86014

Bermuda Bermuda Government 10 Shillings 30.9.1927 Pick 4 PMG Very Fine 20.

1927 USD 360.00 - 540.00 USD 552.00
86138

Sudan Bank of Sudan 20 Pounds 1981 Pick 22 Commemorative PMG Superb Gem Unc 67 EPQ.

1981 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 528.00
86027

Bermuda Monetary Authority 1 Dollar 1.12.1976 Pick 28a* Five Consecutive Replacement Examples Crisp Uncirculated.

1976 USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 516.00
86024

Bermuda Bermuda Government 5 Pounds 20.10.1952 Pick 21a PMG Very Fine 30 EPQ.

20 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 504.00
86040

Canada Bank of Canada $20 1954 Pick 70b BC-33b "Devil's Face" PMG Choice Uncirculated 64 EPQ.

1954 USD 140.00 - 210.00 USD 504.00
86031

British Honduras Government of British Honduras 5 Dollars 1.1.1973 Pick 30c PMG Superb Gem Unc 67 EPQ.

1973 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 456.00
86136

South Vietnam National Bank of Viet Nam 20 Dong ND (1956) Pick 4a PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

ND(1956) USD 240.00 - 360.00 USD 444.00
86033

Burma Reserve Bank of India 10 Rupees ND (1938) Pick 5 Jhun5.5.1 PMG Choice Uncirculated 63.

ND(1938) USD 240.00 - 360.00 USD 432.00
86041

Canada Bank of Canada $2 1954 Pick 76bt BC-38bT Test Note PMG Choice Uncirculated 64 EPQ.

1954 USD 240.00 - 360.00 USD 432.00
86127

Qatar Qatar Central Bank 50 Riyals ND (1996) Pick 17 PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

ND(1996) USD 220.00 - 330.00 USD 432.00
86079

French Indochina Institut d'Emission des Etats, Vietnam 10 Piastres = 10 Dong ND (1953) Pick 107s Specimen PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

ND(1953) USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 420.00
86022

Bermuda Bermuda Government 10 Shillings 1.5.1957 Pick 19b PMG Superb Gem Unc 68 EPQ.

1957 USD 240.00 - 360.00 USD 408.00
86057

China Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Shanghai 10 Dollars 1.9.1923 Pick S358 S/M#Y13-41 PMG Choice Fine 15.

1923 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 408.00
86115

Nepal Government of Nepal 100 Mohru ND (1951) Pick 7 PMG Superb Gem Unc 67 EPQ.

ND(1951) USD 280.00 - 420.00 USD 384.00
86145

Venezuela Banco Mercantil y Agrícola 20 Bolívares ND (1927) Pick S232s Specimen PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

ND(1927) USD 360.00 - 540.00 USD 384.00
86036

Cambodia National Bank of Cambodia 100-100,000 Riels 1995-98 Pick PCS1 Ten Specimen Presentation Booklet Uncirculated.

1995-98 USD 120.00 - 180.00 USD 372.00
86042

Canada Bank of Canada $1; 2 (2) 1967; 1974; 1986 BC-45a; BC-47aA Replacement; BC-55c Three Examples PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ (2); Gem Uncirculated 65 EPQ.

196719741986 USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 372.00
86007

Bahamas Bahamas Government 4 Shillings 1936 (ND 1953) Pick 13d PMG Gem Uncirculated 65 EPQ.

1936 USD 240.00 - 360.00 USD 360.00
86011

Bangladesh Group Lot of 43 Examples About Uncirculated-Crisp Uncirculated.

USD 120.00 - 180.00 USD 360.00
86077

French Indochina Banque de l'Indo-Chine 1 Piastre ND (1942-45) Pick 60 PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

ND(1942-45) USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 360.00
86148

Yemen Democratic Republic South Arabian Currency Authority 500 Fils ND (1965) Pick 2b PMG Superb Gem Unc 68 EPQ.

ND(1965) USD 160.00 - 240.00 USD 360.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Alken (Henry). Sporting Notions, first edition, T.McLean, 1832-33. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Bardi (Lorenzo). Nuova Raccolta delle piu interessanti Vedute della Citta di Firenze…, Florence, Lorenzo Bardi, [c.1840]. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Crawfurd (John). Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava..., first edition, 1829. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Dawe (George, engraver). The Life of a Nobleman, first edition, Geo. Henderson, [c.1825]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: [Doyle (John)], "H.B.". Political Sketches &c., 10 vol. including The Descriptive Key to H.B., Thomas McLean, [1829-51]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Eben (Adolphus Christian Frederick, Baron von) and Nicolaus Heideloff. Modèles de l'Uniforme Militaire Adopté dans l'Armée Royale de Suède, Rudolph Ackerman, 1808. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Geissler (J.G.G.) and Friedrich Hempel. Mahlerische Darstellungen der Sitten, Gebrauche und Lustbarkeiten bey den Russischen, Tartarischen…, 4 parts in 1, Leipzig and Paris, [1804]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Hunt (Charles). Portraits of Winning Horses...of the Derby, Oaks, & St. Leger, from the Year 1842 to 1849…, Rock Brothers & Payne, 1849. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Kunike (Adolf Friedrich). Zwey hundert und sechzig Donau-Ansichten nach dem Laufe des Donaustromes…, Vienna, Leopold Grund, 1826. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Lasinio (Carlo). [Matrimony], Florence, 1790. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Reinhardt (Joseph). A Collection of Swiss Costumes, in Miniature, second English edition, James Goodwin, [1828]. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Wengen (Gottfried Durst von). Die Öffentliche Maskerade Bamberg am Fastnachts-Montage 1833…, Bamberg, [1833]. £2,000 to £3,000.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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