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Auction Name Discovery - Online Auction - Prints Bidstart 7/10 Total Sales (USD) 14,297.00
Auction Date July 18, 2014 - July 18, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 11,900.00
Sale Number #2739T High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 18,425.00
Total Lots 51
Sold Lots 40 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 17,350.00
% of Lots Sold 78.43% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 26,825.00
Unsold Lots 11 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 53.30%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1500

Group of Chinese and China Trade Ephemera

19th century USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,353.00
1796 Currier & Ives, publishers (American, 1857-1907)

Life in the Woods: Returning to Camp

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,046.00
1267

Two Framed Works

USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 984.00
1575

PRIVATE SIGNALS of the MERCHANTS of BOSTON Chromolithograph

second half 19th century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 923.00
1259

Seven Early American Ads and Posters

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 738.00
1790 Currier & Ives, publishers (American, 1857-1907)

Camping Out: "Some of the Right Sort."

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 738.00
1700

Four Cased Daguerreotypes

19th century USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 615.00
1360 Currier & Ives

Six Currier & Ives Hand-colored Horse Engravings

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 492.00
1518 Seventeen Frederick Cozzens

Nautical Chromolithographs

late 19th century USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 461.00
1699

Tintype of an African American Gentleman in a Top Hat

America mid-19th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 461.00
1339 Currier & Ives

Three Framed Currier & Ives Hand-colored Engravings

USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 431.00
1735

Framed Knoedler & Co. Hand-colored Engraving of Washington

late 19th century USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 400.00
1039 Framed J. Baillie

Noah's Ark Lithograph

c. 1845 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 369.00
1728

Framed America's Greatest Monkey Contest Poster

19th/20th century USD 200.00 - 250.00 USD 369.00
1338

Ten Cased Daguerreotypes of Gentlemen

19th century USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 338.00
1317 Currier & Ives

Hand-colored Engraving The Sinking of the "Cumberland" by the Iron Clad "Merrimac," Off Newport News VA March 8th

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 277.00
1325 Currier

Two Framed Currier Hand-colored Engravings of Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison

USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 277.00
1368 John P. Newell (American, 19th Century), J.H. Buffords, publisher (Boston, 19th Century)

The Battle of Lake Erie, Commodore O.H. Perry

19th Century USD 200.00 - 250.00 USD 277.00
1589

Four Framed Arctic Expedition Lithographs

c. 1850s USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 277.00
1761

Framed Hunt Family Register and Silhouettes

early to mid-19th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 277.00
1224 Haskell & Allen, publishers (Boston, 19th Century)

The Coliseum Boston Mass.

19th Century USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 246.00
1238

Framed Double-page "Grand Panoramic View of the East Side of Washington Street, Boston,"

c. 1855 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 246.00
1661

Two Framed Hand-colored Engravings of Franklin Pierce and James K. Polk

America 19th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 215.00
1668

Two Framed Hand-colored Engravings of James Monroe and Henry Clay

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 215.00
1675

Two Framed Hand-colored Lithographs of James Monroe and Andrew Jackson

America 19th century USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 215.00
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