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Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: North American Collection

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Auction Name North American Collection Total Sales (USD) 11,025.00
Auction Date May 15, 2026 - May 15, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 16,350.00
Sale Number #51526 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 24,250.00
Total Lots 88
Sold Lots 48.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 27,250.00
% of Lots Sold 54.55% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 40,900.00
Unsold Lots 40 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 26.96%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1299 Nolie Mumey

The Teton Mountains: Their History and Tradition

1947 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,187.50
1153 Frank Howell (1937-1997)

The Crow Messengers

1984 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
1378 John Hervey; W.S. Vosburgh; Robert F. Kelley; WH Rudy

6 Books, including: Racing in America

1944; 1922; 1937; 1960; 1980 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
1285 Thomas D. Mangelsen (1945 - )

Reflections of Denali

1998 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 406.25
1333 Mary Frische; Tom Collopy

Swan Lake

2005 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 406.25
1381 Rusty Frentner

Wolf Resting

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
1062 Willis Boyd Allen; A.C. Harris; Ernest Ingersoll; Ella Higginson; Mary Lee Davis; Frank G Carpenter; John M Holzworth; Agnes Rush Burr

18 Books, including: Red Mountain of Alaska

1898; 1897; 1908; 1931; 1960; 1923; 1930; 1919; 1923 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 343.75
1159 Frank Howell (1937-1997)

Reunion

1996 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 343.75
1328 Jody Martin; Ned Martin

Bit and Spur Makers, in the Vaquero Tradition

1997 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 343.75
1063 Elisha Kent Kane; John Burroughs; John Muir; George Bird Grinnell; G. Waldo Browne; Henry W. Elliott; Frederick Schwatka

18 Books, including: Arctic Explorations

1856; 1902; 1910; 1898 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
1064 William H. Dall; Adolphus W. Greely; Hubert Howe Bancroft; Frederick Schwatka; Hudson Stuck; Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Captain Thierry Mallet

16 Books, including: Alaska and Its Resources

1870; 1886; 1886; 1893; 1917; 1943; 1930 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
1406 Blaine Billman (1953 - )

Spirit of the Sockeye

N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 281.25
1311 Thomas D. Mangelsen (1945 - )

Grizzly Bear with Salmon

2002 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 250.00
1202 Karl Bodmer (1809-1893)

Portrait of a Native American

c. 1965 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 218.75
1302 Guy Coheleach (1933 - )

Mountain Rush

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
1363 Richard Luce (1950 - )

Buffalo Hunt

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
1420 Judi E. Rideout

Otter with Clam

N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 187.50
1148 John Ford Clymer (1907-1989)

The Peace Pipe

1979 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 156.25
1321 Thomas D. Mangelsen (1945-)

Bay Watch - Bald Eagles

N/A USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 156.25
1386 Anthony M. Alonzo (1931-2013)

Secretariat

N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 156.25
1387 Thomas D. Mangelsen (1945 - )

Indian Summer - Dall Sheep

1985 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 156.25
1390 Terence Cuneo (1907-1996); Richard Stone Reeves (1919-2005); Christine Picault; Louis Maurier; Elizabeth Bell (1916-1985); Jenness Cortez

9 Thoroughbred Race Horse Prints

N/A USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 156.25
1412 Gary Lyon

Musk Ox Circle

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 156.25
1418 Jon Van Zyle (1942 - )

Perched Puffin

N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 156.25
1162 Donald Vann

Cherokee Heritage

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 125.00
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
    Live Sale 24 June
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.