July 2023 Auction Block

BY KATE OCZYPOK

July’s auction block includes a unique stamp from H.R. Harmer, a $1 million Bulgari Kashmir sapphire and diamond ring, a 19th century Chinese carved wooden figure, a Western-Americana Daguerrotype portrait of gold miners, and a Billboard music award from the estate of Donna Summer.

WESCHLER’S

Chinese Painted and Carved Wood Figure of a Seated Official, 19th Century

Estimate: $100-$200

Sold for: $5,500

Part of a June Metro Timed Auction, this painted and carved wood figure of a seated official has some minor chipped losses but is generally in good condition. The figure sold for almost 30 times its asking price.

H.R. HARMER

Canal Zone Stamp

Estimate: $150

Sold for: $2,100

The fine stamp auctions house established in 1940 had a realized price of $2,100 on a unique use of a 1920 1-cent Canal Zone stamp on cover from Balboa Heights to Michigan. The stamp sold at 14 times its starting price.

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Western Americana – Mining: A Half Plate Daguerrotype of Three Gold Miners

Estimate: $4,000-$6,000

Sold for: $37,800

A half plate daguerreotype portrait of three miners sold for well over its asking price. The portrait shows three bearded men, each with a cigar in his mouth. The man in the middle wears a wheel cap and carries a poke bag in his front pocket and a knife in his belt.

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Bulgari Platinum, Fancy Intense BlueGreen and Fancy Intense Pink Diamond Ring

Estimate: $300,000-$500,000

Sold for: $1,058,500

A highlight of a recent Doyle Important Jewelry Auction was an exquisite Bulgari ring. It features a nine-carat Kashmir sapphire and diamonds and is by Ramond Yard, circa 1930. The ring was property of a New Jersey collector and sold to a private buyer participating by phone. The piece of jewelry ended up selling for more than double its estimate.

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WESLEY HEIGHTS 4417 Garfield Street NW Washington, DC SOLD

$6,245,000

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FOREST HILLS 4825 Linnean Avenue NW Washington, DC

$1,975,000

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Fringe Fest in Georgetown, July 12-23

BY CHRISTOPHER JONES

Put on your alternative theater hats! Georgetown will be hosting the Capital Fringe Festival for the second consecutive year this July 12-23. Showcasing almost entirely original theater, dance and music with more than 300 artists – 75 percent from the D.C. metro area – this year’s venues are at 1025 Thomas Jefferson St. NW and Theater J’s Cafritz Hall with free creative live music at Powerhouse on 3255 Grace St. NW.

This year’s theme? “Find the Sweet. Find the Sour.”

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!, the founder of the festival, Julianne Brienza believes, especially as the theater world has struggled to emerge from the pandemic. Show attendees will be “encouraged to enjoy fresh squeezed lemonade and live performance” throughout the festival.

Showing their love for the local theater community, the festival returns $10.50 of each $15 general admission ticket to artists and performers. With performances between 50-75 minutes, showtimes will run Wed.-Friday, 5-11:00 p.m. and Sat.-Sunday, 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. with Wednesday performances exclusively at Theater J.

Look for signs from Georgetown businesses offering discounts for attendees who display proof-of-ticket-purchases.

Launched by Brienza in 2005, Capital Fringe aims to “nurture in stuffy D.C. the informal, all-in-this-together attitude” she had found in Philly’s theater community, Brienza told the audience at one of our Cultural Leadership Breakfasts last year.

For Brienza, the phrase “fringe” is “rooted in unsanctioned performances around the edges of the 1947 Edinburgh Festival” in Scotland, The Georgetowner reported last year. The term implies performances that are “in opposition to something,” she said. Fringe festivals now take place worldwide, presenting unjuried assortments of short plays, musicals, comedy acts and cabaret shows that provocatively engage with current issues.

The “primary philosophy of fringe is that there is no gatekeeping” Brienza told DC Theatre Arts. The Edinburgh Fringe is the “largest arts festival in the world” and today there are an “estimated 250 independent fringe festivals taking place around the world.”

Capital Fringe’s mission is to “celebrate cultural democracy and art for everyone,” by “embracing diversity and a spirit of independence,” the festival says. Its aim is to “challenge perceptions, shake up the institutional hierarchy, be brave and unafraid, and serve as a launching pad for unseasoned and established artists.”

This year’s Capital Fringe Festival, in its 16 iteration, offers a wide-range of quirky, edgy, compelling performances, several of which embrace spontaneity, surprise, shock and audience participation. Forty of the shows will be unique to the festival.

With such a wide panoply of shows, audience members are bound to enjoy giving the festival a try. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with audience participation (Don’t drink that!), an imagined evening shared by Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Zelda, the Sharp

Dance Company’s sharing of the story of Nicholas Winton rescuing 669 children during the Holocaust, story-telling from Burning Man aficionados, a magic show serving as a revealing stand-up comedy….

Many of the stories will address salient political themes surrounding life journeys, identity and discrimination. In “TBD,” Natalia Corvoisier and Courtney Simmons direct this “musical love letter,” performed by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists, combining 15 plays performed in 30 minutes, in an order selected by the audience.

In “Mutu Sakata,” written and performed by Renee Namakau Ombaba, a young Black woman from Mississippi named Mutu – meaning “genuinely human” in the Lozi language – explores her big-city adventures, dealing with culture shock and confronting her innermost fears. In “Dildos and Body Parts,” Sarah Greenspan plays Diva D’Luscious “combining burlesque, opera, and fantasy in a story about a mermaid who turns into a newly single woman,” DCist reported.

“Explode the Form,” a Philadelphia Comedy Troupe, sets out to “dismantle your thoughts on everything from capitalism to Taylor Swift,” in “This is What You Look Like.”

“Hey Pamela? Yes Pamela?,” a two-person play from Pamela H. Leahigh is semiimprovised as one of the performers is only given their role in the script 24 hours in advance of each show. In her one-act play “Between Raindrops,” writer/director Elizabeth Cutler explores themes of connection and memory, delving into the 1922 collapse of D.C.’s Knickerbocker Theatre, the city’s worst theater disaster that killed 98 residents and injured over 100 more.

In addition to “Best in Festival,” Audience members will be encouraged to vote for shows in the categories of “Best in” comedy, drama, dance, ensemble, solo, musical, and music.

Capital Fringe Festival in Georgetown runs from July 12-23. For a full listing of shows with their descriptions, showtimes and venues go here.

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CHECK OUT THIS YEAR’S ALL-STAR LINEUP!

GREGORY PORTER • KENNY GARRETT AND SOUNDS FROM THE ANCESTORS • CHARLES LLOYD KINDRED SPIRITS FEAT. GERALD CLAYTON, MARVIN SEWELL, REUBEN ROGERS, & KENDRICK SCOTT • SAMARA JOY

TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON NEW STANDARDS • DAVE HOLLAND TRIO FEAT. KEVIN EUBANKS AND ERIC

HARLAND• BIG CHIEF DONALD HARRISON • ARTURO O'FARRILL AND THE AFRO LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE

GENERATIONS FEAT. GEORGE CABLES, BENNY GREEN, ORRIN EVANS, SHAMIE ROYSTON, HOPE UDOBI, JAZZMEIA HORN, JEFF "TAIN" WATTS, & KRIS FUNN • OMAR SOSA QUARTETO AMERICANOS • ORRIN

EVANS QUINTET WITH SPECIAL GUEST SY SMITH • CHASE ELODIA'S PERENNIALS • ETIENNE CHARLES

& CREOLE SOUL • WARREN WOLF & HISTORY OF THE VIBES • SUNNA GUNNLAUGS • THE STRING QUEENS

LUDOVICA BURTONE • ISABELLA OLIVIER FEAT. REZ ABBASI • VINNY VALENTINO GROUP FEAT. MARSHALL KEYS, FREDERICO PENA, DENNIS CHAMBERS • BRASSAHOLICS • JULIETA EUGENIO TRIO • LEIGH PILZER STARTET • MARK G.

MEADOWS • BIRCKHEAD • JOGO PROJECT • VERONNEAU• GEORGE V. JOHNSON JR. • LANDON PADDOCK GROUP

AYO • CORCORAN HOLT GROUP FEAT. MARQUIS HILL • LISA SOKOLOV • JOSÉ LUIZ MARTINS • ALEX HAMBURGER

LANGSTON HUGHES II • FLAVIO SILVA QUARTET FEAT. PAT BIANCHI • NEXT JAZZ LEGACY • AARON MYERS

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