The August auctions "Cabinet". A brief summary
ARTinvestment.RU   01 сентября 2017

Auction 17 August resulted in almost 1.5 million rubles (46 % of the mean estimate) and revenue rare book auction on August 24 reached 7.5 mln (59 % of the average aggregate scores of all lots)

With a difference in one week, 17 and 24 August, the auction house "Russian enamel" held two rare book auction that are easily disproved the theory that summer on the auction front there is a lull. In the room both times were more than a dozen participants, was more players online and by phone, and those who were "out of reach" limited to absentee bids.

the Results also speak in favor of the summer schedule of the auction. Auction 17 Aug brought 1,495 million rubles, which is 46 % of the total estimate. With hammer away 45 % of the lots (224 of 498). Collection auction on 24 August was already solid. Here bought for 7.5 million rubles. — 59% of the average total estimate. Buyers found 182 lot of 338 (54 %).

Auction "Antiquarian books, photographs, postcards and autographs" August 17 can be described in one word — availability. Estimate the vast majority of the proposed five hundred lots not exceed 10-15 thousand rubles., and started sometimes at all with 500 RUB. as a whole the asking price corresponded to the market: lots left within the estimate or slightly more expensive. And only once there was a really serious bargain — with multiple excess of estimate. We are talking about lot 40 — brochure, Prince A. I. Vasilchikov "Russian administrator latest school. Note the Pskov Governor B. Obukhov and response," published in 1868 in Berlin. Lot of 2 thousand RUB came to RUB 60 thousand And it was the most expensive lot of the auction.

the Next auction devoted to rare books, autographs, photographs and postcards, was held on August 24. And here the curious auction of the fights had to order more. The audience, too. Almost two dozen people watched the bidding from the audience — purchase of them did about half. Several regular customers were traded on the phone. The Internet was extremely active — sometimes the other players didn't manage even to penetrate with his bid to fight multiple online-участников. Endless online-ставки even spawned jokes about "crashing the system" and offers to replay until this "failure" is not rectified, all unsold lots. All already felt on the-осеннему business sentiment, although the yard and stood the last days of August.

In the first ten lots drawn to the attention of "Russian Atlas, consisting of nineteen special maps representing the all-Russian Empire with the border lands..." 1745 edition. Internet killed the absentee bid and bought the lot for 160 thousand rubles (estimate 120-130 thousand rubles). Further, for 380 thousand rubles., start, phone player was bought the book with the description of the maneuvers of the troops of the combined Guards and Grenadier corps on the day of the coronation of Nicholas I (lot 18).

an Example of the aforementioned "breakdown of the Internet" can be considered the sale of lot 42 — books "Nose. Random collection of funny historic and curious documents, compiled and published by funny hand Nestor's Eye" 1866. From 7 thousand rbl. the auction in the two accounts have reached 170 thousand RUB Over the book, a copy of which first came to public auction, traded only on the Internet.

And another rarity, which first came up for auction, has attracted the attention of online-покупателей. Album of cartoons "Voyage of Mr. forget-me-nots in Pyatigorsk. Treatment, adventures, sensations and disappointments. The story in the faces" — is the only published work of artist FedorN. Turkestanova (1825-1853) — traded from 30 to 120 thousand. a Lot went to the Internet.

From entertainment publications, please refer to serious "Case", published under the heading "top secret. For personal use without transmission." This is the minutes of the Meeting of the Special Presence of the Senate dedicated to the assassination on the person of the Emperor Alexander III in 1887, which had to prevent. The conspiracy involved the brother of Lenin, Alexander Ulianov, and together with the other conspirators he was on the court hanged in the Shlisselburg fortress. For 615-страничный Protocol two telephone buyer was traded to 200 thousand rubles (estimate 100-120 thousand rubles).

One of the most rare books of A. P. Chekhov – a separate edition of the drama "Ivanov", which was released edition of just 100 copies in 1889, — traded Internet, telephone and correspondence rate from 140 to 380 thousand to the Most persevering appeared to be a phone buyer. Another bright deal — selling a full set of "Scales" from the collection of the famous bibliophile Arcadia Lutsenko for 320 thousand rubles (estimate 270-280 thousand rubles). Lot won the phone.

Top-лотом the auction was the legendary album of 14 lithographs Natalia Goncharova "Mystical images of war" (Edition NR. Kashin; Tipo-лит. T-ва I. N. Kushnerev and C°, 1914). The main fight for the lot was between a buyer in the room and the client whose bet was made personally by the owner of the auction house. 480 thousand reached 625 thousand RUB, the Last word full-time player.

And another spectacular auction dispute has happened in the photographic archive of Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich and Vsevolod emilyevich Meyerhold, consisting of 64 photos 1910-20-х years. For a collection of unique images of the arguing party in the hall and the client on the phone. Started with 46 thousand, but the collector in the hall, by-видимому, wanting to cut off a competitor, immediately bet 100 thousand roubles. the Player on the phone, in turn, planned to take the opponent into submission, and each time asked for half-steps 5 thousand. This is the order of the stretched action, but in the end loses patience with face-to-face buyer asked to convey to the opponent that is not going to concede. Phone immediately surrendered. A lot went into the hall for 180 thousand.

And two top-лотами the end of the catalogue were two questionnaires of members of the literary Fund of the USSR, filled in by hand by the writer Yevgheny Schwartz and poet Anatoly Mariengof. Profile of Schwarz was sold for 155 thousand RUB — 10 times more expensive valuation of 15-16 thousand rubles. And questionnaire Mariengof reached a hammer price of 190 thousand. in the evaluation of 30-32 thousand rubles.

by Maria Onuchina, AI