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VOL. 45, NO. 42 FRIDAY OCTOBER 17, 2014
Schulz And Cortes Tie For Top Honors, Firearms Aim High, And Diamonds Dazzle At Cordier’s Catalog Auction n oil painting by Edouard Leon Cortes and a comic strip by Charles Schulz each sold for $27,000 at Cordier Auction & Appraisals’ two-day Firearm, Militaria and Antique & Fine Art Auction on Aug. 23 and 24. In addition, a signed Kentucky rifle brought $4,100, and a 5.13 CTW brooch in an unusual form brought $7,000. The 1,048-lot auction was held at the company’s auction house located at 1500 Paxton St. in
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Harrisburg, Pa. The multi-consignor sale featured items from more than 150 consignors. Almost 200 people were in attendance over the two days in addition to phone and absentee bidders, while more than 3,500 bidders were preregistered to bid over the Internet. Prices quoted are
$1,500, and a 1924 St. Gaudens $20 gold piece in choice brilliant uncirculated condition that sold for $1,400. The Collectibles category offered several notable items including a Continental sterling owl form vessel
A John Moll-signed Kentucky long rifle sold for $4,100.
hammer prices and with articulated wings that sold for do not include $1,800. The athletic medal archive buyer’s premiums. of Clara M. Schroth (born in Philadelphia), which included Saturday’s sale offered medals for gymnastics as firearms, militaria and well as track & field, collectibles, coins, sold for $900 after silver, and jewelheavy bidding. A ry. Online bidBaily, Banks & This 5.13 CTW diamond basket of ding for the Biddle sterling firearms was fruit brooch sold for $7,000. water pitcher enthusiastic. in a floral and A German scroll motif DWM 1916 sold for the dated Luger high estimate hammered at of $750. $1,200, and a In jewelry, Colt 1860 diamonds stole A 1924 St. the show. A 5.13 Gaudens $20 gold CTW diamond and coin sold for $1,400. 18 carat white gold brooch in the unusual form Army revolver sold for $1,600 on an estimate of $800- of a compote of fruit sold to a $1,200. In long guns, a W.L. Evans phone bidder for $7,000. A dazModel 1816 flintlock musket sold zling 2.49 CTW diamond & platinum 3 stone ring also for $1,200 while a Colt 1878 SxS sold to a phone bidder 12-gauge shotgun with side hamfor $6,500 just above mers totaled in at $1,400, within the estimate of $3,500the estimate of $1,000-$2,000. A $5,500. An unusual John Moll-signed Kentucky rifle Joseph Johnson sold for $4,100 to an online bidder after spirited bidding. This Joseph This Qianlong cloisonné candle- John Moll was a very early Johnson Liverpool stick sold for $4,900. gunsmith in America. A 18-carat fusee pocket watch Parker Brothers “D” sold for $1,700. grade SxS shotgun with an extra barrel set with Liverpool 18matching serial numbers carat fusee sold for $4,000 after pocket watch heavy competition to an hammered out-of-state bidder in the down at $1,700. room. In militaria and colSunday’s seslectibles, an early 19th-century sion featured furniture, A.W. Spies marked ethnographic saber sold and Asian for the low arts, colestimate of lectibles and $800. A large textiles, decoscale model rative arts, art, of a Colt clocks, and 1911 pistol lighting. The standing 33 day opened inches tall with furniture, with a mova highlight of ing slide and which was a hammer and Pennsylvania removable w a l n u t magazine sold Chippendale online for high chest that $6,500. sold to an Coins feaonline bidder tured a 1854 for $3,400. A Liberty Head stunning oak gold piece side-by-side This continental sterling owl vessel graded very fine The oak side-by-side desk and realized $1,800. desk and bookthat sold for bookcase sold for $900.
The painting by E.L. Cortes (French 1882-1969) sold for $27,000.
This Charles Schulz original comic strip sold for $27,000.
An antique Persian Serapi rug sold for $3,400.
case sold to a bidder in the room for $900, exceeding the estimate of $500-$750. Two antique Persian Serapi room-sized rugs sold for $3,400 each. In Asian Arts, a Chinese scholar’s stone hammered down at $1,100, and a Chinese Qianlong cloisonné candlestick sold for $4,900 after heavy bidding. The star among collectibles was an original hand-drawn comic strip by Charles M. Schulz (American 1922-2000) that sold after very enthusiastic bidding for $27,000. Another lot that drew
aggressive bidding was a Leica M3 outfit that hammered to the floor for $2,400. There were a number of lots from the family of Robert Fleming (Pennsylvania Senator from 1836-39) including the Pennsylvania Senate chair of Robert P. Allen (Robert Fleming’s son-in-law, and Pennsylvania Senator from 187578) that sold to an online bidder for $450. Another outstanding lot was an applique album quilt top that finally hammered down to a bidder on the Internet for $1,200. (Continued on page 2)