begin with general statistics. At the auction of 424 lots were put up - a lot, many times greater than the average auction "norms" of 100-150 lots. Bidding lasted 4:00, with a short break, but as time passed on a good performance - quickly. Moreover, at the end of the auction felt a good energy boost, although he did not haggle, but just watching - albeit with great interest.

audience, a man of 30-40, had gathered a very correct: men in age from 35 to 60 years. Many are familiar with each other, friendly atmosphere of enthusiastic people.

The sale was put 424 lots on 10 sections with a total base assessment of 79.16 million rubles. Sold all 218 lots (51.4%) totaling $ 49.905 million rubles (63%). 73 lots were sold at a good bargain - five, ten, twenty, or even more steps.

Before the auction, I asked the director and owner of the auction house "Znak" Elijah Goryanova ( AI interview with Ilya Goryanovym see the section titled" Investing in art ». - Red .), which he believes lots of the most interesting, and for that he expects the fight. He outright called the 4 lots in the section "Order", in particular:

Lot number 5 . St. George commemorative banner 126 th Infantry Regiment of Rila. Base score: 4.64 million rubles. Result: 4.64 million rubles. A rare item, so rare, that in Russia such a banner is sold for the first time, and my companion in the world knows only two cases of sales of similar banners. Lot has been sold at the rate of part-time without a fight in the hall.

banner of St. George commemorative 126 th Infantry Regiment of Rila Auction House" Znak. "18/02/2012. Lot number 5 Base score: 4.64 million rubles Result: 4.64 million rubles Source: znak-auction.ru

Lot number 39. Badge of the Order of St. Anne III level. The basic assessment of : 300 000. Result: 570 000.

Lot number 47. Badge of the Order of St. Stanislaus I of a degree . Base score: 750 000. Price : 1.2 million rubles.

Both orders are executed in the 1860s, made in the fashion of the time, and covered with black enamel. Near the first of them is in the directory of the litter "rare" the second - "It is very rare." Both lots have gone from a serious bargaining, and in excess of the starting price nearly doubled. participants wrestled in the hall, correspondence rates and several telephones. In both cases, Hall wins.

Badge of the Order of St. Anne III degree Auction House "Znak." 18/02/2012. Lot number 39 Base score: 300 000 Result: 570 000 Source: znak-auction.ru

Badge of the Order of St. Stanislaus I degree Auction House "Znak." 18/02/2012. Lot number 47 Base score: 750 000 Result: 1 200 000 Source: znak-auction.ru

Lot number 46. Star of the Order of St. Stanislaus for the non-Christians. base score: 900 000. Result: 1.4 million rubles. fought for this award party in the room and the phone: the seven steps of the price has risen from 900,000 to 1.4 million rubles, won again in the party room.

Star of the Order of St. Stanislaus for the non-Christians Auction House "Znak." 18/02/2012. Lot number 46 Base score: 900 000 Result: 1 400 000 Source: znak-auction.ru

On that, in the hall were not observers, but active participants, and the math shows 75 lots were bought by absentee rates, 52 - by phone, and 92 lots (by far!) extracted in the fight participants in the room.

people fighting serious and fun at the same time, now and then heard a very pertinent remarks. For example, a sign of "The North Union hunters" (lot number 135) participants competed in the hall, by telephone and correspondence rate, when the price of 60,000 rose to 90,000, from the audience was made: "What are you doing? Are you a hunter? »

Another example: when the auctioneer announced the sign of" the young chef "(lot number 137), one of those present, turning to gray-haired party, said loudly:" Misha , buy yourself, what are you waiting for? And that will take away these boys! ". Priced at 15,000 mark was sold for 18,000 rubles.

medal for "Break the Siege of Leningrad January 18, 1943" (lot number 377) initially struggled distance rate, 3 people in the room and phone. When the price of 30 000 reached 55,000 per lot, and left two contenders in the hall, one of them turned to the other with the question: "Andrei, how much money do you have?" Hearing the answer, give up: "Take!»

Another interesting comment I heard during the break: "Well, did you see at what price go? And I gave you last week, three times cheaper, and you are me, dear, dear! »

sum up. The auction was divided into 10 thematic sections, the public interest to them and, consequently, the course of trading and the results were not uniform.

The highest total base assessment - 42,152,000 rubles - predictably, had lots of Section « Order ». Of the 61 lots have been sold to 29, ie 47.5%(in monetary terms, 53,8%).

But the section « Foreign medals » showed the lowest result of 10 lots sold 3, and the result in terms of money amounted to only 11.4%. The result (by the way, it is predictable), the organizers are not pleased, but did not call a special sorrow: as in painting, in our domestic market demand is domestic orders, and they cost more, despite the fact that similar in execution (if not better ) overseas are often much cheaper.

Section « Award Medal » of the 30 lots were sold to 7, ie, 23%- the lowest total among all sections, but the results in terms of money - 82.8%- the third in this list. I must say that in this section (as in many others) exhibited a very heterogeneous lots of value - from 8000 to 2.2 million rubles. Selling more expensive lots allowed on a background of low amounts sold to achieve a convincing indicator of quality.

Section « signs and tokens of the empire » show mediocre by the standards of the trades result: 15 lots of 29 (51.7%) were sold without a serious struggle in one or two steps, the result in terms of money - 34,8%.

Totals section « The signs and tokens of the USSR »in terms of sold roughly equal the achievements of the previous section: 17 lots of 35 (48.6%), but for signs of the Soviet Union fought actively bidding for the most part took place in 4-5 steps, talk to margins have made it clear that the icons are the most in demand of power structures. Active trading gave a completely satisfactory result - 68.4%of the total base assessment of lots in this section.

Section « Awards White movement and emigration » of the four lots sold one - talk about a trend in such statistics do not account for.

Another small section - « Objects of Russian antiquity ». Of the seven lots sold three, but HOW! Photo of the Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich autographed (lot number 171) with 40 000 rose in value to 200,000, and the next lot - Photo of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich autographed - up to 300,000. Both lots have bought a man with a crazy, more than 20 steps, a struggle for everyone. After the auction, I asked the winner what is it about these photos. It turned out that people collect everything connected with the horse guards, and both were great prince there. Then followed the story, from which it became clear that a person is aware of all the Horse Guards, including the progress and results of excavations at the burial ground konnogvardeytsev. Do not buy these lots, he could not. Good fight for pictures of the great princes of this section is brought into first place among all the others with the monetary measure of 258,9%.

before tendering in the section « Coins » of updated participants in the conference room there were about 20 people, but trading activity is not affected. Of the 67 lots sold for about half - 33. Regardless of baseline assessments, whether it be 1 million, or 20 thousand rubles, the auction took place mostly in 5-6 steps and the final price is often twice the launch. Hence - the result: The final amount was 68.7%of the base.

But in the section « Booms and Securities » of the 44 lots sold 11 - exactly quarter, though, by the way, the result of cash-it - 53.9%. We can say that this area of ​​collecting is not very popular, but the prospects for its undoubted.

last section - « Commemorative Medal » - the largest in the number of lots and one of the most successful on both measures - quantitative and financial. So, out of 137 lots sold to 99 (72.3%), earned the money - 101.3%from the baseline assessment. As always, it was very stormy. Starting prices are commemorative medals are usually small, 10-20 thousand rubles (although there were starts, and three orders of magnitude higher!), The struggle in 5-6 steps was almost for each lot, the participants traded recklessly and as a consequence, the starting prices to the finals of every fight grew up in a 2-3. The whole course of trading and the results of this section, I would call an extremely balanced, which means a good present state and potential development of this segment of collectibles.

In general auction was very positive. Were satisfied, and the organizers and participants. Despite the political battles of the window, for collectors is the real value, and they are willing to spend time and money on a much more pleasant and interesting things than politics, which means that life goes on, and the auction as well. See you at the next auction.

Babulin Constantine, AI