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Clars Auction Gallery: November Gallery Auction

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Auction Name November Gallery Auction Total Sales (USD) 103,385.20
Auction Date November 21, 2025 - November 21, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 63,550.00
Sale Number #112125 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 98,900.00
Total Lots 173
Sold Lots 119.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 84,700.00
% of Lots Sold 68.79% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 132,300.00
Unsold Lots 54 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 78.15%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4282 Terry O'Neill (British, 1938-2019),

Frank Sinatra, Miami Beach

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,515.00
4373 (lot of 16) Torii Kotondo (1900-1976)

Twelve Aspects of Women.

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 7,205.00
4277 Edward S. Curtis (American, 1868--1952)

Flathead Camp on the Jocko River

1910 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,550.00
4006

A Collection of Billie Holiday original orchestral arrangement sheets for 'Lover Man', 'A Love Affair', 'Please Come Home', 'Sleepy Time Down South', ...

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 5,567.50
4011 Billie Holiday

A rare Billie Holiday handwritten letter to a fan at the Taft School in Watertown, CT.

1938 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,912.50
4012 Billie Holiday

A rare Billie Holiday handwritten letter to her last husband, Louie Mackay, signed Lady on Hotel Wilson letterhead.

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,930.00
4279 Elliot Erwitt (French, 1928-2023),

Paris Umbrella and Eiffel Tower

1989 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,930.00
4007 Billie Holiday

A Billie Holiday inscribed and signed first edition of 'Lady Sings the Blues', Billie Holiday with William Duffy,

1956 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 3,275.00
4253 (lot of 2) Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942)

Fruits and Vegetables

1939 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,275.00
4010 Billie Holidays personal assistant, Alice Vrbsky,

A collection of original handwritten journals and notes of Billie Holidays personal assistant, Alice Vrbsky, towards the end of Billie Holidays life.

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,620.00
4016 Charlie Christian

A rare handwritten Charlie Christian one-page sheet music for 'Prisoner of Love' and 'Tea', dating to the mid-late 1930's.

mid-late 1930's. USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,965.00
4044

A collection of jazz flyers comprising Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck, Josephine Baker, Thelonious Monk and his Orchestra, ...

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,965.00
4247 Albert Hirschfeld (American, 1903-2003)

Fred and Ginger

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,703.00
4238 LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921-2012)

San Francisco Nocturne

1992 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,310.00
4248 Dorr Bothwell (American, 1902-2000)

Memory of an Emotion

1950 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,310.00
4246 Albert Hirschfeld (American, 1903-2003)

The Algonquin Round Table

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,244.50
4225 Roy De Forest (American, 1930-2007)

Birdland

1994, USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,179.00
4349 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)

Tsuki Hyakushi.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,179.00
4051

Three binders of jazz ephemera, comprising signed press photos such as Guy Lombardo, Hazel Scott, Leroy Jones, Tony Bennett; ...

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,113.50
4234 Harold Joe Waldrum (American, 1934-2003)

Adobe Church

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 982.50
4257 Pedro Friedeberg (Mexican, b. 1936)

Pareja

1992 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 982.50
4314 Toko Shinoda (1913-2021)

Beyond.

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 982.50
4285 Jeff Brouws (American, b.1955)

Mobil/Trailer, Inyokern, California

1991 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 851.50
4023

A silver gelatin photo of Billie Holiday, Lester Young and others

1940's. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 786.00
4228 Eyvind Earle (American, 1916-2000)

The Wave

1990, USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 786.00
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
  • Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Four NASA Moon Survey Photos; 144M, 148M, 149M, 149H1. $400 to $600.