"Antiquarium" on July 23. A brief summary
ARTinvestment.RU   08 августа 2016

The spring/summer 2016 auction house completed auctions in unusual — in person-заочном — format

for the First time in the history of the auction house, all lots 214, included in the directory of Rare books and autographs XVIII — XX centuries", was played in two sessions: from July 11, bets online-участники (the starting price of the lots was set at 1000 RUB.), and during the second face-to-face session held on July 23, the fight got a chance to intervene intramural players, the customers, on the phone, and people who prefer to bid online in real time.

And to fight for what it was. In addition to the traditional set of books on history, art, geography, books on philosophy and theology, the organizers of the auction, including books of Russian emigration, publications, dedicated to various Hobbies, original and lottery drawing, photography and, of course, fiction.

"Empire" has set a rather complicated task: summer, heat, Saturday, mid day, etc. it is Also very affordable start most of the lots catalog: dozen lots started to trade above 100 000 rubles, which, on the one hand, democratic, but on the other — large profits promised. The challenge, however, was solved, and the total result of the auction can rightfully be described as quite decent: in new hands took almost 90 % (191 of 213) of the lots put up for auction (lot 122 was withdrawn before the auction). Total revenues amounted to $ 2,883 million rubles.

the hall was not crowded, only six people, so it is not surprising that almost half of all sold (78 lots) went to absentee buyers. It's funny that room and Internet-участники (though for different reasons) won a roughly equal lots — 35 and 36, respectively,;, the phone won 29 times, and 13 lots were won by the participants of the first session of the auction.

the highest hammer price of the day was achieved near the middle of the auction. Moscow in the 1905 edition of the "Verses about the Beautiful lady" by Alexander Blok (lot 132) a special value attached attached to a book, an envelope with a handwritten inscription by Block, addressed to the poet Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan. In the fight for lot 120, 000. the starting distance rates came just three phone but in vain: outbid a bid of absentee bidder for any one of them failed. The book (and the envelope) got correspondence buyer for 320 000 RUB.

the Second result of the day (the highest fitness) has been made in the fight for lot 70 — lavishly illustrated album of works representative of the Russian avant-garde artist Anatoly Galaktionovich Petritsky. 1 one of 500 copies perfect preservation of books in the Ukrainian language, published in Kharkov in 1929, with the launch of 70 000 RUB clashed for Internet-участник and hall. The book got the last one for $ 125 000.

the Third largest scoring bet that Saturday was your buyer on the phone. The Paris edition of "Description the King-колокола in Moscow" Montferrand in 1840 in French (lot 81), which started with 34 000 rubles by correspondence rate, has attracted two participants on the phone. To outbid the opponent's bid, the winner took more than a dozen steps and the sum 110 000 rbl., for which lot and has gone to a new owner.

with regard to the Internet, then records was not. Unfortunately, technical problems with communication forced the organizers of the auction to limit participation online-игроков only 104 lots. Starting with the 105 lots in the draws lots actually did not participate. Let's hope that such communication problems will be eliminated in the future we-таки will be able to see and touch the consumer activity on the Internet-сектора auction house "Antiquarium" in its entirety.

the Results sections were as follows. The most popular among the participants were books on geography, a section devoted to leisure, and string graphics and photography — they were all sold out 100 %.

Extensive, of the 51 lots, a section of books on history, opening the bidding, sold for 94 %. The most expensive historical book was the first edition of the works of "Short Russian chronicler lineage" M. Lomonosov 1760 (lot 2), inherited a new owner for 70 000 RUB. But for the longest time fought for two volumes of one of the most authoritative Russian editions on the history of Freemasonry, "Freemasonry in its past and present" edited by S. P. Melgunov and N. P. Sidorova, edition of 1914 (lot 41). In the fight against telephone and absentee bids lot from the start 30 000 rubles rose by more than half and left on the phone for 67 500.

Over 90 % of lots were dismantled in small (26 lots) section of art books. In addition to the album Petritsky, the most interesting subject of bargaining was the book Sholom-Алейхема "Enchanted tailor" with 26 lithographs by the artist A. L. Kaplan — one of 600 copies, issued by the Leningrad Department of the art Fund of the USSR in 1957 (lot 76). With 44, 000. the start of the book was played between the participants in the Internet. The winner of the lot went for 85,000 руб.; as they say, for technical reasons, the figures above that none of the Internet-биддеров to rise, unfortunately, failed.

the Book of Russian emigration differed by almost 80% and brought the organizers in the amount of slightly less than 40 000 rubles.

the Most impressive, occupying more than a quarter of the entire catalogue section of literature showed quite an impressive result — to 86.7 % of the 83 lots sold. In this section, the company is the winner of the day — book Alexander Blok — in the category books, sold over 100, 000. or above, made up from two editions. The essay, "Court people," Baltazar Gracian-и-Моралеаса — collection of aphorisms and rules of wisdom of the eighteenth century, "translated from gishpansky language francuskoj Allatom de La Ossa and francuzskogo Russian Sergey Volchkov," 1760 (lot 106) from the start of 65 000 RUB was played between the absentee bidder and two members by phone. The lot was awarded to the winner on the phone for 100 000 RUB Exactly the same amount, but at the start, became one of the absentee players St.-петербургское the publication of "Kobzar" of Taras Shevchenko 1860 (lot 116).

Despite the new format of trading, summer, problems of a technical plan that cut the part of the Internet in the raffle the second half of the catalog "Cabinet", you can congratulate the good result: almost 90% sold. We can only guess what kind of statistics we would see the participation of the Internet.

Let's hope that the next auction "Antiquarium" of the same format will take place without all sorts of overlays and will delight us with the results. And while congratulations “Antiquarium” with the end of the season and wish you a fruitful summer holiday.

Maria Kuznetsova, AI