A new record procatechesis market in Russia is 240 thousand rubles for a postcard
ARTinvestment.RU   26 января 2016

At the auction of antique postcards "Russian enamel" on January 23 postcard from a sketch by V. Mayakovsky was sold 4 times higher than the estimate — for 240 thousand rubles. The auction of the postcards showed the result of 70 % of the lots and 86 % for the money

Monday January 23 auction house "Russian enamel" was held for the second auction, entirely devoted to such an interesting direction collectible, antique postcard (about the first filokartisty the auction, please click here). Bid was presented almost 6 thousand postcards of the famous Moscow meeting, which were grouped into 285 lots. Hall filled, multi-stage auction fight for almost each of the lots, new records confirm that philocartia — is one of my favorite and very popular areas in the environment of the Moscow collectors.

the Final statistics look impressive: from 285 lots offered found buyers 201 (70,5 %), and total revenue exceeded $ 2 million, has reached the level of 86 % of the average aggregate scores of lots. The starts of most of the positions were deliberately made below the estimate, but almost all the lots had reached its preliminary evaluation, and even exceeded it.

In the auction room were about twenty men or so. But with such a small number they were the most active: in the hall took 145 lots (72 % of all lots sold). While buying almost everything — who-то more who-то less, but overall almost nobody left without new instances to your collection. On certain thongs activity was shown online-игроки who played 31 lot. Absentee bids played 15 times, and only 10 lots were purchased for the players by phone. However, among the lots purchased by phone, was the main sensation of the exhibition — card based on a sketch of Vladimir Mayakovsky, sold for a record for the Russian market procatechesis 240 thousand rubles.

lot 110 — postcard "Approached the Germans to the Vistula river..." by Vladimir Mayakovsky for the publishing house "Today splint" in 1914, — was announced for sale, it was immediately made the Internet-ставка. However, the fuse online-биддера soon exhausted, when two telephone participants effortlessly overcame the estimate of 60-80 thousand rubles, and rushed into sky-high for the cards market heights. 100, 150, 200 thousand rubles for a single card — such filokartisty the market has never seen before. But why not do it to acquire a rare instance — because another chance might not present itself. The hammer price of 240 thousand roubles (including 20%-ной the auction house Commission — 288 thousand) in 5.5 times surpassed the previous record for a single card, also mounted on the "Russian enamel". The first specialized filokartisty auction in June 2015 postcard "Bandit — enemy of Soviet power..." (about 1920) edition of Ekaterinoslav Gaborkovesdan was bought for 44 thousand rubles.

At the auction on 23 January there was another card based on a sketch by Vladimir Mayakovsky for "Today's lubok" — "As Wilhelm in the fifth company..." (lot 111). However, it is equally impressive bargain, as her predecessor did not happen. The lot was purchased on the Internet for 10 thousand rubles (estimate 10-12 thousand rubles).

the Second top-лотом past auction was lot # 84 – set of 12 postcards series on sketches by S. Solomko. This is the full series of open letters is dedicated to those who suffered during the First world war the French regions and European countries, known deltiologists called "Emblems". Rare on the market filokartisty complete set was bought at launch for 65 thousand rubles. The winning bid came from the Internet.

In General, at these auctions it is difficult to distinguish as such, top-лоты, because the set of cards sold out the entire string. The auction started with sets of picture post-cards in different corners of the Russian Empire of the early twentieth century. Sets with views of Moscow (publications P. von-Гиргенсона, "Sherer, Nabgolts and Co", etc.) were sold out almost completely. For example, a selection of 17 types of Moscow publishing house "Scherer, Nabgolts and Co", which included postcards "Fire convoy", "Tver", "Lubyanka square", "Kuznetsky most", "Tverskaya. Filippov bakery" and others, was bought for 36 thousand rubles for evaluation of the lot 18-23 thousand rubles (lot 10). Further, over 11 thousand rubles, was sold a rare postcard with a picture of the car of the partnership K. Besh plant "BUSSING" (lot 11, estimate 3-4 thousand rubles).

generic cards of cities of the Volga region, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Pskov, etc. enjoyed no less popularity than the capital types: nearly all "regional" sets went under the hammer. 42 postcards with views of Odessa, for example, hall were purchased for 30 thousand rubles (lot 29, estimate 20-30 thousand), and a selection of 100 postcards with views of the Caucasus exceeded the estimate by half and got traded to a collector in the room for 26 thousand rubles (lot 34, estimate 12-18 thousand).

After the species moved on to art cards. Here attracted the attention of collectors postcards of the early twentieth century, printed sketches by artists circle "World of art" — Leon Bakst, böhm, etc. With great interest was met lot 41 — decorated by Elizabeth Boehm envelope-карточка "As our Prince Vladimir...". Trading began with 5 thousand and in the struggle the phone the hall and reached 30 thousand rubles. Won the phone.

have Found a buyer in 6 and all of lots associated with A. N. Benoit. With the greatest interest the participants showed not even to the actual cards and envelopes, designed for sets of cards that are found on the market even more rarely. So, for 26 thousand rubles, while the estimate of 15-18 thousand was bought by the envelope to the set of postcards A. N. Benoit "Toys I", and the envelope of a series of postcards "Toys II" was sold for 28 thousand (lots 42 and 43). A similar situation exists with envelopes "Instead of visit" arrangement by G. I. Narbut. Two phone buyers were bidding them up to 40 thousand (lot 73, estimate 15-20 thousand rubles) and 28 thousand rubles (lot 74, estimate 15-20 thousand rubles).

a Fully separated string of original postcards with maps (lots 106 to 109). The most expensive was the card with the card "Rigo-Орловская railway soldiers" (lot 109, the result of 15 thousand rubles).

Another new to the market filokartisty section — "Judaica" (lots 128-134), consisting of rare postcards of synagogues in the Russian Empire and postcards of Jewish publishing houses, was also completely sold out.

In the section of cards dedicated to theatre, Opera and ballet, the greatest interest was the set of 63 cards with Feodor Chaliapin (lot 148). Three players traded in the hall from 6 thousand to 46 thousand rubles. And postcard with music songs Chaliapin "You come up, red sun" was sold for 4 thousand rubles.

One of the highlights filokartisty collection can safely be called a Christmas card of the early twentieth century with a mechanical calendar. Her hammer price was 15 thousand rubles (estimate 2,5–3,5 thousand).

the Only string that has not had any serious demand, was to divide the foreign postcards with the views of Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, Egypt, Japan. Here was just bought a couple-тройка lots. Overseas printing of postcards in the late nineteenth — the beginning of the XX century was raised better than in the Russian Empire, the circulation was more and, therefore, their present value (in particular for the Russian collector) is not as high. Let's say, 125 cards with views of Italy of the early twentieth century can be purchased for 4-6 thousand rubles.

Congratulations to the "Russian enamel" with another filokartisty successfully conducted the auction and, of course, with a new record auction price for a single postcard.

Maria Onuchin, AI