How to spend a whole Sunday in the CHA and not get bored ? The recipe is simple : two auction " Cabinet " exhibition Goncharova and Fair Christmas gifts - and a New Year mood you provided. Retrospective Goncharova better to see once than a hundred times to read about it , Gift Fair will last for two weeks , but the auctions have already taken place , so it is about them and will continue it .

Began " Kabinet " his series of New Year trading auction orders, medals and insignia of the Russian Empire and the subjects of history . Though there were few people in the audience , but all were in a complacent mood for jokes, one hundred and fifty lots ( 7 lots were withdrawn before the auction ) imperceptibly flown hour and a half . Revenues reached 4.5 million rubles. With the hammer went Lot 71 ( 47%). Hall of them got 34 lots , phone buyers bought 19 lots , and correspondence bet won 18 times .

Sales Orders "Kabinet" not satisfied as often as second-hand or scenic trades . The last time faleristicheskie trades were in June , and by the way , the final statistics were about the same : sold 73 lots ( or 44 %) - a nice stability .

Back to auction December 8 . The most expensive item was the 18 - silver medal "For courage" with a portrait of Emperor Alexander II. Instance refers to a small number of medals without division into power , issued during the reign of Alexander II. Since 1878 were introduced four degree difference medal "For courage" . Member in the hall trying to overcome the correspondence rate, but relented when the price was the seven-digit : for 1 million rubles medal went to distance buyer .

Medal " For Bravery " , with a portrait of Emperor Alexander II St. Petersburg Mint . 1855-1878 Silver . Diameter: 29 mm . Weight: 14.14 g Cabinet . 12/08/2013 . Lot 18 Estimate: 650-700 thousand rubles Result: 1 million rubles Source : kabinet-auktion.com

frachnyh sign Guardianship of national sobriety St. Petersburg, Alexander Brylova workshop . 1899-1908 Silver, enamel and gilding . Size: 25.5 x 20 mm. Weight: 9.26 g Cabinet . 12/08/2013 . Lot 111 Estimate: 8.5-10 thousand Result: 30 thousand rubles Source : kabinet-auktion.com

very funny was bargaining for the lot 111 - frachnyh sign Guardianship of national sobriety (estimate 8.5-10 thousand). Public vengeance to poke fun at the way fought for " sobriety " two bidders in the room. One kind of trading through force, and the other each time it urged on the new rate. "Do not take for yourself Well " - was justified first, but the second is still not conceded . "Oh , walk, so walk ," and decided to give the first " quarter " (that is 25,000 rubles) for the sign of the Fund for national sobriety . But the second participant , and this rate has not stopped - he completed his victory auction rate of 30 thousand rubles . The applause rivals offered together to celebrate this thing .

With passion traded as per Lot 30 - mark 40 years of irreproachable service . This distinction , despite the absence of a provision to him tapes exceeded estimate 35-40 thousand rubles and got the buyer in the room for 67.5 thousand rubles .

in the auction catalog orders and medals By the way, there were a lot of old photographs , which sold well . Telephone customers got photos of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich autographed (Lot 36 , the result of 90 thousand rubles ) , the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna (Lot 37 , the result of 95 000 rubles), Grand Duke Nicholas (Lot 93 , the result of 95 thousand rubles). Member in the hall earlier bought the same photograph of the Grand Duke Nicholas for 24 thousand rubles (Lot 38). Group portrait of the crew boats of His Majesty "Standart " - favorite boat Nicholas II, which are used for arranging the reception of heads of foreign powers , - went to a telephone buyer for 20,000 rubles (Lot 92). Finally, the Cossack Ataman archive Konstantin Konstantinovich Agoeva with 19 photographs and two pochtogrammami signed Wrangel left with a significant excess of the estimate for 90 thousand rubles (preliminary estimate of 50-60 thousand rubles ).

But not all, of course , it was so smooth. Thus, the string remained completely unnoticed signs of insurance companies (lots 129-140 ) , despite the fact that one of these characters ( badge is awarded for 25 years of service in the insurance company "Russia") graced the cover of the catalog . But the string of railway signs and tokens of the Russian Empire (lots 97-109 ) was much better. However, the four lots that were filmed thong before bidding , so that statistics are not entirely objective , but still ... Of the remaining nine lots were sold seven totaling 550,000 rubles .

By orders in short everything . We turn to the Old and rare books , prints and photographs . The second Sunday of the auction "Kabinet" collectors offered 514 lots ( two were withdrawn before the auction ), of which 208 went under the hammer ( 40.4 %). Total revenues amounted to almost 13 million rubles. Ie just one day auctions " Cabinet " earned 17.5 million rubles. On second-hand auctions have more people (apparently the evening proved to be more appropriate ), but the main share of sold lots is not got the room, and call ( 104 lots, exactly 50 %). Hall has won 65 times , and correspondence rate - 39 times .

Traditionally one of the most successful auction strings again become popular prints , lithographs and posters of the First World War. For the fourth consecutive auction for them serious battle played out rates. And opponents are almost always only two of the auction and auction rates rise . If the June auction the highest price for the poster of the First World was 42,000 rubles , in the September auction these lots went for an average of 36 000 , is a second-hand at the November auction " Cabinet » splints almost all gone from the First World in the range of 70-110 thousand , and one so all was sold for 300 thousand rubles. And this despite the fact that the estimate of such lots are usually hovering around 15-25 thousand rubles. Was no exception and the Sunday auction. We must pay tribute to the auctioneer Andrew, who seems to have foreseen this Groundhog Day , and not to delay the public long draw of each lot , led bargaining in such a frantic pace that the audience only had time to gasp and groan from the final price of 110 , 120 , in 130 and even 140 thousand rubles. String of 22 pictures and one broadside lithography eventually brought 1,685 million rubles in total Estima 280-405 thousand rubles .

German Science . Popular prints M. Association Tipo lithography IM Mashistov . 1914 Paper, lithography . 58,5 x 40,5 Cabinet . 12/08/2013 . Lot 319 Estimate: 13-20 thousand rubles Result: 130 000 rubles Source : kabinet-auktion.com

Archive documents and photos Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938) Cabinet . 12/08/2013 . Lot 373 Estimate: 200-350 thousand rubles Result: 220 000 rubles Source : kabinet-auktion.com

One the most interesting lots Sunday antiquarian auction archive was Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938) - 13 images , including 6 portraits , numerous handwritten documents ( lyrics , poems , excerpts from operas , music , etc.) , a compilation of letters and more. Letters and poems addressed Chaliapin daughters from his second marriage ( with MV Petgolts ) - Martha , Marina and Dasia . Lot went to the party in the hall for 220 thousand rubles (estimate 200-350 thousand rubles ).

Much to his surprise , was not sold manuscript collection "Poems twisted around " (lot 377 , estimate 830,000 - 1.3 million rubles). The first and the only surviving copy of the book (circulation only 5-6 pieces ) made by pencil A . Twisted , did not find a buyer. Perhaps after all, was a tall estimate . But was sold to a collection of poems by an unknown person , made ​​in the style of the Futurists , with bookplate «Bibliotheque M. Larionow »( Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov ?). However, this estimate of the avant-garde of the manuscript unidentified author was more lenient - 110-140 thousand rubles. Book of poems by the buyer purchased the phone start, for 110 thousand rubles. The new owner may be fascinating research to establish authorship. And suddenly you're lucky , and it would be no less important figure than twisted ?

In antiquarian auction catalog on Sunday were again included collections of postcards and photographs of species and types of the Caucasus , Persia, European and Asiatic Turkey . When it came to these lots , suddenly found that the organizers ( and maybe the owners) radically revised their estimate. Starts in most cases have been reduced by half, or even three times . Where the start was 550 000 , was 150 , where the lower estimate was 70,000 - was 35,000 , etc. As a result , as you can guess , almost all of the lots were sold thong . Total revenue amounted to 825 thousand rubles. And after species and Caucasian facial features was the most expensive lot of the auction - a compilation of 80 pictures " History of building the Trans-Baikal Railway" ( Chita. Photographer AK Kuznetsov . 1895-1900 ) . For this collection of rare photographs telephone buyer paid 1.7 million rubles (estimate 1.7-2.3 million rubles ).

At auction Onuchina visited Maria , AI