November 19 firm "Znak" held an auction number 15 «Quinta Decima» .

Overall impression - the pleasure of the ensuing action.

But - in order. The auction was held at the hotel «Marriott Royal Aurora» - a place convenient and in a sense traditional. Saturday afternoon, cars with flashing lights in front of the hotel in two rows. Argued that it had visitors auction, one hundred percent not undertake, but it seemed to me.

Visitors were few, thirty people, mostly serious men over forty. "Little" - an abstract value, akin to the question "What is the heap?". Common situation where the auction itself involved 10-15 percent of those who sit in the hall. At this auction bought something almost everything, and if you look at attendance from this angle, it was a lot of people.

trades were well organized before had the opportunity to look again at lots in person. Catalog - a thick book of large format hardcover (400 lots is not a joke), and of excellent quality. A good leader and manager with the correct seating phones. All the tunes on an interesting spectacle - and it took place.

sold 53 percent of the lots, of which nearly 30 percent of the serious bargaining. Five or six steps of bargaining - the usual case, 15 or even 25 steps is not an exceptional case.

It seems that the present interest is primarily caused not even the individual lots, and the whole thong. And the interest (or inattention) to a particular directory partition fueled a great mood in the hall.

So, a little statistics. Did not cause the fight this time sections: "Foreign awards and medals" (from 8 lots sold 2, without bargaining), "Award Medal" (out of 26 lots sold 9), "Booms and securities' (18 out of 47 lots sold, and almost all of absentee rates and without bargaining on the part of those present in the hall).

high demand use multiple partitions, in particular «Order» . Sold more than 50 percent, and all with a serious struggle. The most expensive purchase - Lot number 24, "Badge of the Order of St. Prince Vladimir I degree with swords" (hereinafter detailed description of the lots are in the shared directory ). The sign went for 11 million rubles for the start, was bought without haggling over the phone.

Badge of the Order of St. Prince Vladimir I degree with swords Source: znak-auction.ru

usually traded at the same time a few people in the hall distance phone rates. Dramatic exciting auction was for lot number 63 - "Silver Medal Romanowski decorations" For works on agriculture "III degree».

Silver medal Romanowski decorations "For works on agriculture» III degree Source: znak-auction.ru

Co starting 1.4 million rubles for the 25 steps the price rose to 7.5 a million. They fought several people in the hall and two telephones, a 25 step phone took a pause, which lasted 5 minutes, room froze. After a difficult meditation phone refused, and won the men in the room.

Great interest was the section «signs and tokens of the USSR» : of the 31 lots sold in 20 - and all with a crazy gamble to fight.

sign "Svirstroy 1928-1934» Source: znak-auction.ru < /a>

example, the sign "Svirstroy 1928-1934" for the 11 steps to 20 000 rubles increased four times and left for 80 000, traded for "Svirstroy" 3 persons in the room and phone.

most bitter struggle broke out for the signs "Supreme Soviet" republics of the USSR. For example, the mark "the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic" from the start 30 000 210 000 got to, and sale sign "the Supreme Council of the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic", which, starting with 10 thousand rubles, in the end went for 110 000, Hall and met with applause at all. < /p>

sign of the "Supreme Soviet of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic» Source: znak-auction.ru < /a>

sign of the "Supreme Council of the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic» Source: znak-auction.ru < /a>

When they got to the section «Rewards White Movement» my guess is that in the hall gathered admirers of the Soviet period of our country, not true: all the rewards of the White movement, too, have been sold.

photos did not set records, weak interest was only genre scenes, mostly parades, and bought them a price range of 20-30 thousand, portraits of the business did not use the size of demand.

was a very popular section «Commemorative medals» . Of the 94 lots were bought were 80, and almost all with starting prices in excess of two - three times. We bought everything - from medals to mark the "150th anniversary of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1876" to "world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Star the town. USSR ».

results and the process of trading is encouraging. There are in our country, no matter what, and collectors who have the means for their collections, and investors. Were these bid and those and others. For the first such auction - it is an opportunity to supplement their collection of rare things, for the second - safe to invest in liquid assets. In addition to store and transport (especially in transport, some times difficult) these items is easy. In the bidding excitement and desire to win sometimes clearly outweighed the pragmatism and the math - and, therefore, does not live by bread alone Russian people.

for bids watched Constantine Babulin, AI