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Auction Name Americana Online Total Sales (USD) 33,830.40
Auction Date August 12, 2025 - August 12, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 26,800.00
Sale Number #30924 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 42,500.00
Total Lots 35
Sold Lots 32 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 29,100.00
% of Lots Sold 91.43% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 45,900.00
Unsold Lots 3 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 73.71%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
340 Rodney Hilton Brown

Fist of Muhammad Ali, with Framed Autograph, 1981

1981 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,072.00
99 signed Osborne,

Sign for "A. Carmell's Montreal House" Restaurant

early 20th century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,432.00
10

Gilded Sheet Metal Padlock Trade Sign

c. 1930 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,176.00
175

Cased Ambrotype of Niagara Falls

c. 1860 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,048.00
176 Augustus Moore (c. 1830-77)

Portrait of Children with Daguerreotype, Boston, Massachusetts, 1876

1876 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,048.00
208

Carte du Mexique et des Etats Unis d'Amerique

1783 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,920.00
234

Brevis, Exactaq. Totius Novi Orbis, et Peruviae

1567 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,792.00
174

Thirty-two Cased Photographs of Couples, Women, and Children

mid-19th century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,664.00
82

Barber Shop Sign and Pair of Barber's Poles

late 19th century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,408.00
172

Thirty-four Early Cased Photographs of Men

mid-19th centur USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,408.00
191 Sebastian Heinric-Petri (1545-1627),

Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio

1614 [1598] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,152.00
335 Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)

Four Framed Lithographs

1931 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,088.00
333 Rockwell Kent

Communing with Nature, 1934

1934 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,024.00
81

Five-and-Dime Shop Sign

20th century USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 960.00
200

Four Framed World Maps

c. 1550 - 1800 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 960.00
220

Nine Framed Maps of North and Central America

17th and 18th century USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 832.00
135

Cast Iron and Zinc Watch Repair Trade Sign

late 19th/early 20th century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 768.00
83

Two-part "Skee Ball" Arcade Sign

20th century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 704.00
109

Pair of Carnival Signs

20th century USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 704.00
137

Trade Sign of a Model 4053-3 Polyphase Slide Rule

c. 1925 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 704.00
210 Julius Bien

Blue Jay, Corvus Cristatus

1859 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 704.00
184 R.R. Donnelley & Sons, after J.J. Audubon and R. Havell

Pileated Woodpecker

1946-68. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 640.00
342

U.S. Hockey Collection mostly from the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, Lake Placid, New York

1980 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 640.00
21

Seven Framed Fraktur Birth and Baptism Certificates

c. 1800-40 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 537.60
91 signed E. Grove,

Two Circus Poster Designs

1942 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 512.00
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