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Dunbar Sloane: Collectable and Estate Auction

Auction Reports

Auction Name Collectable and Estate Auction Total Sales (NZD) 5,778.00
Auction Date May 26, 2026 - May 26, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD) 0.00
Sale Number #1944 High Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD) 0.00
Total Lots 119
Sold Lots 103.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (NZD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 86.55% High Estimate of All Lots (NZD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 16 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
565

Roll Playing Guide Books

N/A Not Available NZD 300.00
679 Siddell Peter

A Place to Stand

N/A Not Available NZD 240.00
507 Ching Raymond

Studies and Sketches of a Bird Painter

N/A Not Available NZD 192.00
511 Van Der Velden Petrus

Petrus Van Der Velden

N/A Not Available NZD 180.00
532

Official History NZ in the WWII

N/A Not Available NZD 180.00
722

French Fashion Plates

N/A Not Available NZD 156.00
506 Ching Raymond

Raymond Ching The Bird Paintings

N/A Not Available NZD 120.00
489 DC Comics

DC Comics Graphic Novel Collections

N/A Not Available NZD 114.00
514 Woollaston

Woollaston Erua

N/A Not Available NZD 114.00
743

Assorted Vintage Posters

N/A Not Available NZD 108.00
744

Assorted Vintage Posters

N/A Not Available NZD 108.00
745

Assorted Vintage Posters

N/A Not Available NZD 108.00
746

Assorted Vintage Posters

N/A Not Available NZD 108.00
485 Marvel

The Classic Marvel Collection Graphic Novels

N/A Not Available NZD 102.00
516 Shakespeare William

Works

N/A Not Available NZD 102.00
502

History of Printing in New Zealand

N/A Not Available NZD 96.00
519

Five Assorted Mostly NZ Reference

N/A Not Available NZD 96.00
703

Cupid Awake; Cupid Asleep

N/A Not Available NZD 96.00
741

Assorted Vintage Posters

N/A Not Available NZD 96.00
531

Official History NZ in the WWII

N/A Not Available NZD 90.00
503

The Illustrated London News

N/A Not Available NZD 84.00
574 Howell Tony

Vietnam Anzacs Australians and New Zealanders in Vietnam

2021 Not Available NZD 84.00
740

Assorted Vintage Posters

N/A Not Available NZD 84.00
536

Official History NZ in the WWII

N/A Not Available NZD 78.00
712 Gilles Sacksick

Julie

N/A Not Available NZD 78.00
  • 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.