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Ripley Auctions: PICKERS EXPRESS Timed Auction of Indy 500, Music, Electronics & Telegraph Collectibles XXIII

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Auction Name PICKERS EXPRESS Timed Auction of Indy 500, Music, Electronics & Telegraph Collectibles XXIII Total Sales (EUR) 5,406.25
Auction Date May 19, 2026 - May 19, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 0.00
Sale Number #51926 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 0.00
Total Lots 56
Sold Lots 51.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 91.07% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 0.00
Unsold Lots 5 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151

Frank Zappa and the Mothers; Seatrain with Badfinger and Curtiss-Moldoon

N/A Not Available EUR 1,062.50
138

4 Books, including: Our Lady Peace

N/A Not Available EUR 343.75
152 Henry Lee Summer

4 Books, including: Henry Lee Summer with Michael McDonald

N/A Not Available EUR 343.75
153

White Zombie and The Ramones with Supersuckers

N/A Not Available EUR 250.00
163

3 vintage promotional concert posters, Savoy Brown/ZZ Top, Pat Benatar, J Geils Band

N/A Not Available EUR 250.00
28

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Winners (1911-1916)

N/A Not Available EUR 200.00
136 Jermaine

4 Books, including: The Cult

N/A Not Available EUR 200.00
157

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band

1977 Not Available EUR 200.00
23

Indianapolis Buildings Postcards

N/A Not Available EUR 175.00
150

Shawn Phillips with Hall & Oates; Golden Earring with James Gang

N/A Not Available EUR 175.00
26 Maurice Biais

Race Car

1902 Not Available EUR 150.00
36

Classic Era Indy 500 Postcards

N/A Not Available EUR 150.00
29

World War II Era Indianapolis Motor Speedway Winners (1937-1946)

N/A Not Available EUR 125.00
139

Many unused tickets for Grateful Dead concert

1995 Not Available EUR 125.00
140

Many unused tickets for Grateful Dead concert

1995 Not Available EUR 125.00
146

Firefall; Ted Nugent

N/A Not Available EUR 125.00
43

Indianapolis 500 Memorabilia (Tickets, Photographs, Autographs)

N/A Not Available EUR 112.50
24

Indianapolis and Indiana Postcards

N/A Not Available EUR 100.00
141

7 Books, including: ZZ Top

N/A Not Available EUR 87.50
142

7 Books, including: Elton John

N/A Not Available EUR 87.50
145

Kenny Wayne Shepherd; Collective Soul; Boz Scaggs

N/A Not Available EUR 87.50
137

4 Books, including: Sugar Ray

N/A Not Available EUR 75.00
154

Helmet, Rod Serling and Twilight Zone characters

N/A Not Available EUR 62.50
165

Collection of vintage concert/event tickets

N/A Not Available EUR 56.25
15 Richard Rummell (1848-1924)

Fall River Iron Works in N.Y.C.

1904 Not Available EUR 50.00
  • 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.