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Hansons: May Three-Day Antiques & Collectors Auction, Day 3

Auction Reports

Auction Name May Three-Day Antiques & Collectors Auction, Day 3 Total Sales (EUR) 1,060.99
Auction Date May 18, 2026 - May 18, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 970.00
Sale Number #51826 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 1,320.00
Total Lots 25
Sold Lots 10.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,833.00
% of Lots Sold 40.00% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 2,615.00
Unsold Lots 15 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 40.57%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3328 Eric Morecambe

Ten manuscript sketch & joke ideas

N/A EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 659.00
3327

Assorted Royal programmes

1928; 1929; 1947; 1951; 1952; 1977 EUR 70.00 - 90.00 EUR 92.26
3355

4 Books, including: Dandy

1965-1972; 1966-1971; 1968-1970; 1966-1972 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 59.31
3331

Collection of greetings cards, postcards, and WWI memorial cards

N/A EUR 30.00 - 40.00 EUR 52.72
3351 Renato Casaro

The Magnificent Seven; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; The man with no name

N/A EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 52.72
3336

Official Concorde Photographs

1972 EUR 50.00 - 60.00 EUR 39.54
3411

Two boxes of assorted railway and model railway reference books and magazines, including Ian Allan

N/A EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 32.95
3313 Eric Morecambe; Ernie Wise

The Morecambe & Wise Special

1977 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 26.36
3334

Thunderbird TV show picture cards; comical cards

N/A EUR 20.00 - 30.00 EUR 26.36
3306

Die Cast: reference books for Matchbox, Corgi and Dinky

N/A EUR 30.00 - 40.00 EUR 19.77
  • 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.