Pre-holiday mood was in the air, and people disagreed with smiles regardless of whether they managed to win the scheduled item or intercepted a successful player

Yesterday, December 20, the auction house "Kabinet" held auction "Old and rare books, maps, prints».

auction catalog includes 427 lots , was put up for auction 425.

the hall to the beginning of trading (scheduled for 6 pm, plus have the traditional 15 minutes to give a chance for latecomers) were about three dozen people, but people have moved up first 20 minutes after the start of the auction.

During the bidding, which lasted nearly two hours, 139 lots were sold for a total of 8.474 million rubles (32.7%of the mean estimate). 58 lots went to the gym, 43 - to customers on the phone 38 times played correspondence rates. A very good result for the end of December.

auction starts slowly.

first significant result of the evening - 360 thousand rubles for the "Letter A. Suvorov Fyodor Martynov 24 September 1784 "(lot 8), top-lot auction (by the organizers) went to the buyer on the phone on the lower estimate.

Lots mainly went to the lower estimate or traded in one or two steps.

most expensive purchases occurred in the first half of the auction, and the hottest auctions - in the second.

Worth note that, despite the proposed buyers choice - in this directory you can find rare editions of cooking, geography, heraldry, history of the North Caucasus, the architecture, with the most enthusiastic about it for lots dedicated military. Most of the sales of more expensive 300 000 exactly in lots of military subjects: "The historical description of clothing and weapons of Russian troops ..." Viskovatov (Lot 35) - 380 thousand rubles, "Petersburg Grenadier King Friedrich Wilhelm III-th regiment in the Turkish War of 1877-1878 years. "Fedotov (Lot 89) - 350 thousand rubles," The War for the Caucasus in 1885. Atlas "Muravyev (Lot 77) - 320 000 rubles.

apart in this list is the" Album of photographs and drawings of Russian climber NV Poggenpolya dedicated expedition to particle and carrageenan in 1902 year "(lot 186), who went for 360 to 000 part-time rate.

price leader this evening were" Materials for the study of the economic life of the state peasants Transcaucasian region. In seven volumes. " 1885-1887 the publication (lot 96), sold to a buyer on the phone for 1.3 million rubles.

Hall revived in the second half of the session.

With the decline of the average estimate of lots (items valued most highly concentrated in the first half of the catalog) have increased the excitement of the players in the room.

Bidding became harder, up to 10 steps, and the result often exceeded the upper digits estimate.

most interesting in this sense a fight for Lot 150. For the game, "Flirt colors" of 100 cards fought hard shoppers in the room, a few steps up the price from 30 to 50 000. The winner was the player with the number 10 carbides.

But the most lengthy step by step was negotiating for a poster presentation Mayakovsky during his tour of the USSR in 1920 (lot 283), when the struggling Hall phone and raised the price the lot with 5200 to 24 thousand rubles, until recently, not wanting to give in to each other. Lot was the buyer on the phone.

I would suggest that this persistence, not least due to the feast was and the desire to make an original gift.

In general, pre-holiday mood was in the air, and people disagreed with smiles regardless of whether they could win the scheduled item or intercepted more successful player.

For such a light atmosphere can only thank the organizers .

Maria Kuznetsova, AI