popular prints . Battleship in Sinop
M. , Chromo - Lithography Morozov , 1914-1915
Paper, lithography . 41 × 56, 5
Auction House " Kabinet" . 18.03.2014 . Lot 152
Estimate: 13 000-16 000
Result: 48,000 rubles
Source : kabinet-auktion.com


Poster for the feature film
« Lenin in October ". 1963
Paper , letterpress printing . 90 × 69
Auction House " Kabinet" . 18.03.2014 . Lot 278
Estimate: 1 500-2 000
Results: 11 000
Source : kabinet-auktion.com

Tuesday March 18 auction House " Kabinet " extraordinary auction held " Old and rare books, prints, photographs . " Extraordinary because the catalog was made ​​up of lots selected for the past 27 February antiquarian auction, which, recall , and without that turned out quite extensive - 472 lots. Yesterday's catalog was somewhat less - only 311 lots , among them were the book editions beginning XIX - mid XX century , and various types of printed graphics - from leaf engravings of the XVIII century , popular prints until the beginning of the XX century , the postwar Soviet posters, film posters and billboards . As you can see , the organizers of the auction , given the observed increase in more than a year to the public interest in the printed schedule , even for early trades gathered quite an impressive string of her - a varied and time of creation, and technology, and by name .

calculation was correct : of the more than 300 lots catalog of the most sought after steel is popular prints , as well as various film and theater posters of Soviet films and performances both in Russian and other European languages ​​.

top of the trades were about two dozen people . Sold 90 of 311 ( 28.94 %) lots in the amount of 1,486,500 rubles - 25.15 %of the average of the total estimate. 47 lots went into the hall. 22 - by telephone, correspondence took 21 lot buyers .

As for the actual course of trading , the book is no particular string of bargaining and was not. Books were bought mainly by the start or exceeding it by one ( sometimes two ) steps .

They left mostly the most affordable options for the money on items costing more than 100 000 customers in this time was not found. So , lots of 96 , preceded the appearance of the first of the 15 offered for sale print style " Death of a Japanese cruiser" Chitose " during a night attack Port Arthur from 26 to 27 January 1904 " ( sold by absentee rate for 40,000 rubles from the start 15 000), the buyers are interested in only 18 , and only one lot - a 36 -page translation G. Artzruni public lecture " The economic situation of the Turkish Armenians " in 1880 (Lot 41) - 500 rubles went to start up : the buyer has bought him in the hall at absentee rate for 8000 rubles .

All waiting for the start of the main " cheap popular " thong (lots 145-156 ) . Mnogosotennyh record , as in the past , he did not show values ​​, however , and did not disappoint : popular prints dismantled one by one , without fuss , but bargaining , good growth and completely. Traditionally, the struggle was between two buyers in the room rate and correspondence . And let the prices in this time and jumped 100,000 rubles agree, result in 48 000 ( the most expensive lot pm ) at the start in 13 000 rubles for popular prints ' Warlock . Declare war on the whole of Europe " 1914-1915 model years (lot 157) deserves respect. Almost a fourfold increase in the start - all would do so. Results for the remaining Luebke ( starts 13 000-15 000 ) , with some exceptions , were distributed in the range of 40 000-44 000 .

next burst of activity occurred in the hall near the end of the auction when it came to the film posters . The first sign was a poster in English for the feature film Romm "Lenin in October " (lot 278) , whose price in the internal struggle of three people in the room rose to more than 7 times - from a modest start 1500 rubles to the final 11,000 . The rest of movie posters and billboards offered at very affordable prices - from 1500 to 4000 rubles , though not with such excess of the estimate , almost everyone left the hall with the struggle in 5-6 steps. Collectors to be congratulated , but you can assume that the buyers were investors buying at modest prices that steadily becomes more expensive .

Despite the fact that the result of the auction to the record does not carry I want to note an upbeat atmosphere in the hall, where there were jokes and laughter , and even the general laughter . This is an important indicator of sentiment not only Tuesday's trading , but , perhaps, and the market: no sadness, working auction , normal , bought what they wanted , and even bargained , and got the adrenaline and fun. That somehow .

past auction - set still another record . Remembering the end of previous trading second-hand , when participants had to leave quite romantic at night locked CHA through mazes technical premises , auctioneer Andrew Haase made ​​almost unthinkable: he has managed , to the delight of all present , and without any loss of quality, spend a rather big in general (more than 300 lots) auction in less than half an hour .

Temp specified, some trends are viewed quite clearly , and more interesting to observe how these will be regular antiquarian auction house "Kabinet" planned for April 17 .

Maria Kuznetsova , AI