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Fresh-To-The-Hobby Collections Power $5 Million Sports Card Auction FRIDAY AUGUST 24, 2018 • VOL. 49, NO. 34
Strong Prices Consistent Across Spectrum In The Top Sports Card Event Of Summer
Ohio’s Zoar Harvest Festival And Antiques Show Celebrates 45 Years
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Regional Show Has Potential To Draw From Wider Audience By Karl Pass The 45th annual Harvest Festival in the historic village of Zoar, located in rural east-central Ohio, was held July 28 and 29. There were 62 dealers in two large tents for the Antiques Show and 26 craftspeople setup for the seperate Artisan Show. The festival, run by the Zoar Community Association, used to be held the first weekend of August, but two years ago, the group moved the event up one week to not conflict with the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. This was a wise move. The Hall of Fame Pennsylvania dealer Frank Swala reported good sales, stadium and facilities are 18 including a Somerset County, Pa., hardware store miles north in Canton, and the apothecary, a miniature curly maple Empire chest of annual inductions get bigger drawers, a theorem, mocha, stoneware, and more. and bigger every year, drawing huge crowds that inflate hotel religious oppression from the Lutheran Church. Zoarites are prices throughout the region. The village of Zoar is in viewed as among the most successTuscarawas County, and the com- ful communal settlements in our munity was founded in 1817 by a nation’s history, and as of 2016, the German religious group of dis- town has been designated a senters or separatists. The Society National Historic Landmark District. of Separatists thrived, in large part, The majority of the town has been during the second quarter of the on the National Register of Historic Places since 1969. 19th century until the mid-1800s. Among the largest 21st century They had emigrated from southwestern Germany because of concerns for the area are the health and integrity of the levee built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1936. Zoar is situated at the base of the levee along the Tuscarawas River and the once Ohio and Erie Canal. Thanks to ideal perfect weather and the show managers, exhibitors, and volunteers with the community association, this year’s A well-maintained large central flower garden is in Zoar. event was a true success. Originally designed and based on the Book of As of now, the show is a Revelations, sections are meant to represent allegorical well-supported regional figures/elements. event, but it has great potential to become a draw for attendees from outside the immediate area. More shoppers from Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Michigan should have the Zoar show on their calendars. There is plenty to do to make it a fun weekend trip. Some people come to the Harvest Festival strictly with the Here is the booth of Ohio dealer Matt Ehresman. Continued on page 2
The power of the grade. This high-grade 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card with a NM+ 7.5 sold for $204,000.
The finest known example of Muhammad Ali’s 1960 Hemmets Journal rookie card realized $90,000.
The delectable combination of “old” and “new” paid huge dividends for consignors to Heritage Auctions’ Sports Trading Cards Auction on July 19 and 20, as a fresh array of material inspired towering bids from an eager collecting
audience. A new-to-the-hobby find of high-grade 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle cards added over a quarter million to the tally with a NM+ 7.5 example bringing $204,000, while a
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Ancient Egyptian Gilded Coffin Featured In Met Exhibition A highly ornamented ancient Egyptian coffin from the first century B.C. is the spectacular centerpiece of the exhibition, “Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin,” on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The recently acquired work, which was inscribed for a high-ranking priest of the ram-headed god Heryshef of Herakleopolis, is displayed with 70 other works, also from the Met collection, through April 21, 2019. The exhibition is made possible by the Daniel P. Davison Fund and is arranged thematically to illuminate the role of Nedjemankh as a priest in ancient Egypt, his burial, and the decoration on the coffin. Distinctive installations in the exhibition include an imitation leopard skin once worn by a priest and a display of funerary objects depicted in a scene on the coffin. Made of cartonnage (layers of textile stiffened with glue and covered with plaster), the coffin has an elaborately decorated surface that is sheathed in gold. Scenes and texts in thick gesso relief were intended to protect and guide Nedjemankh on his journey from death to eternal life as a transfigured spirit. According to ancient texts, the use of gold in the coffin assisted the deceased in being reborn in the next life. On the interior of the lid are thin sheets of silver foil. To the ancient Egyptians, the gold and silver could symbolize the flesh and bones of the gods or the sun and the moon; on a more specific level, they were associated with the eyes of the cosmic deity Heryshef, whom Nedjemankh served.
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This is the gilded coffin of the Priest Nedjemankh (detail), from the Late Ptolemaic Period (150–50 B.C.), cartonnage, gold, silver, resin, glass, and wood, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase, courtesy of the 2017 benefit fund, Lila Acheson Wallace gift, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers funds and Joseph Pulitzer bequest, Leona Sobel education and the Camille M. Lownds funds, and 2016 benefit fund, 2017. The exhibition is organized by Diana Craig Patch, the Lila Acheson Wallace curator in charge of the department of Egyptian Art; Janice Kamrin, associate curator; and Niv Allon, assistant curator. Education programs for adults and children will accompany the exhibition. The Met Fifth Avenue is located at 1000 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. More information can be found at www.metmuseum.org.
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In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 5 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 7 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 8
FEATURED AUCTION: Alfred’s Auctions LLC - September 22 and 23 in Lambertville, New Jersey - Page 4
AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . . on page 8 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 15