Auction "Among collectors" on may 22. A brief summary
ARTinvestment.RU   25 мая 2018

Just sold 52% on lots and 90% of the money. String materials from the collection of Ambassador of the USSR to the USA A. F. Dobrynin (1919-2010) was sold 100% on the lots and 430.

Tuesday 22 may in the hall of the "Slavyanskaya" hotel "national" auction house "Among collectors" held the auction "Rare books of the XVIII — XX centuries, manuscripts, autographs and drawings, Russian literature abroad". Attention collectors were offered a vast, nearly 500 lots, the catalogue, which in itself is a great reference tool for the beginner or the advanced bookseller. A few were able to attend the auction and bid in person — the number of full-time members did not exceed ten people. However, online traded from 25 to 35 players and a minimum of three phone customers was a serious competitor to the Internet. Sold lots are approximately equally distributed between online- and phone participants. Buy in the hall and absentee rates were rare. Just sold lot 254 of 489 (52 %) by 6.32 million RUB., which is 90 % of the total start. Such a high total revenue provided some of the first strings in which items with high starting prices often exceed their rating. Suffice it to say that sales of the first hundred lots (sold 67) brought almost 5 million rubles, which is 78% of total revenue.

Opened the auction collection of rare books on military history of Russia. Of the 28 lots sold 19 to 846 thousand rubles (90 % from start). Over 260 thousand rubles. went book by M. J. Poggenpol "Essay on the emergence and activities of the volunteer Navy during the XXV-летнего its existence" (SPb.: type. A. Behnke, 1903). From the start 99 thousand RUB reached a hammer price of 120 thousand rubles rare edition of the XVIII century "Mechanical proposals for student use at the Artillery and engineering gentry cadet corps, the noble youth, / Vol. artillery captain Jacob Kozelsky" (SPb.: at the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1787).

Further, in the following string, "In a certain Kingdom, in a state", for 330 thousand rubles by correspondence rate was sold five-volume edition of Professor V. N. Nadler "the Emperor Alexander I and the idea of the Holy Alliance" (Riga: edition of the bookseller N. Kimmel away, 1886-1892).

the Most expensive lot auction "collectors" was the autograph of I. V. Stalin — two handwritten letters from L. Beria, concerning repressions in the top of the Communist party of Georgia in 1937. "<...>Предателям and the enemies of the people have no place on our Land <...>", — writes Stalin Beria in July 1937. A second letter from September of the same year, Beria proposes to add to the list sent to them another 10 individuals who need to "make the first category". For 1.9 million rubles to the only bidder on the phone bought was the terrible evidence of the era of the "Great terror".

In the same block was sold also the autograph of Leonid Brezhnev on the review of the work of frontline concert brigades in 1943, the Lot was sold for 18 thousand at the start of 11.5 thousand.

Next string — documents, photographs and other materials from the archive of the Soviet Ambassador in the United States from 1962 to 1986, A. F. Dobrynin — has become the most popular in the past auction. The auctioneer Sergei Chistyakov deserved for this string "white gloves" — all 27 lots found new owners. Nearly every lot on the Internet arguing with phones, but victory often turned out to be on the side of the two telephone customers. Total revenues for the 27 lots, reached nearly 1.2 million rubles, which is 430 % of the total starting prices of Thong — 278,3 thousandRUB

Top-лотом in thongs from the collection of A. F. Dobrynin was a pencil drawing by Camille Pissarro "Washerwoman", presented by Anatoly Fedorovich in 1986, businessman and art collector Armand hammer in honor of 25-летия their friendship. Rarely, and perhaps never before on the Russian market (especially second-hand) is not met, the work of the impressionist Pissarro. Moreover, even with 100%-ным provenance. It is therefore not surprising that the figure eagerly traded a few phone and online-игроков. The first bet on the lot, offered with a starting price of RUB 67 thousand, came from the Internet and made up 130 thousand RUB Pretty quickly applicants reached the half-million milestone. After a pause, the phone the player made last victorious step — 550 thousand rubles. drawing "Washerwoman" was the second cost lot trading (only more expensive autographs of Stalin).

And again in the collection of materials from the archive of A. F. Dobrynin (and sell part of this collection for several auctions "Among collectors") was very popular lots of on the topic of space exploration. In a series of three official photographs of NASA, 1969, on the first landing of man on the moon were traded from 10 to 34 thousand RUB Historical photos of the crew member "Apollo-11" Edwin Eugene-Олдрина made by astronaut Neil Armstrong, has passed into the collection of phone of the buyer. Further, for the same 34 thousand against two of the phones were drawn, the official NASA with photographic print of the famous picture "the Man in the moon", which also captured an astronaut Edwin Aldrin. Lot exceeded the starting price by about four times (start 8 thousand.).

Another memorable lot of space the collection of A. F. Dobrynin — presented to the Soviet Ambassador in 1975, a memorial plaque placed on her miniature flags of the USSR and the USA. These two check boxes have been on Board a spacecraft "Soyuz" and "Apollo" during the first international manned space flight in July 1975 Per lot traded two phone and multiple online-игроков. From 17 thousand rbl. of the start of the bargaining has reached 120 thousand. Won this unique plaque, can become an ornament of any collection of space, one of the phone buyers. Another popular item from the same series — the The earth from space, made in 1972 on Board the ship "Apollo-17", with autograph of American astronaut H. Schmitt. The photo exceeded the starting price at 8.5 times (start 7 thousand руб.; the price of 60 thousand rubles).

other rare documents from the collection Dobrynin should include memorabilia cards with autographs of participants of the Soviet-американских negotiations on limiting strategic arms — OSV-2 (lots went for 40 and 13 thousand rubles). Completed a selection from the collection of A. F. Dobrynin series of photographs of the Ambassador Dobrynin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Raisa Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his wife N. Reagan. In the same lot was sold a letter Ronald Reagan autograph. Race rates for this item has reached 120 thousand rubles at the start from 17 thousand rubles. This item, like most of the lots from the collection Dobrynin, went to all the same telephone buyer.

Subsequent sections of the auction catalog auction "collectors" may 22 were sold in a more relaxed mode. In the string "Book XIX — beginning of the XX century" top-лотом became "Album to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Moscow society of hunting of Emperor Alexander II. 1862-1912" ([M]: T-во of skorobogaty A. A. Levenson, [1912]) — hammer price of 155 thousand rubles (start 115 thousand rubles).

is Well dispersed string "China — Russia" in which were presented the book first half of the twentieth century about the history and culture of China, Japan and Mongolia, about the relationship between China and Japan with the Soviet Union. Of the 20 lots were sold here 16 for a total of almost 160 thousand RUB Especially cheered the participants in the room during the sale of the publication "beekeeping in Northern Manchuria" (Harbin: publishing house of the Society of the Manchurian territory, 1928.): each online-ставке they were ready to suspect the hand of the former mayor of Moscow, known for his passion for breeding bees. In the end, to learn from Chinese beekeepers can anyone-то online-покупателей who bought the book for 5.5 thousand rubles without Commission.

an Interesting group of lots adjacent to the section of children's books — pictures and albums of Tatiana Mavrina and a maquette of an unpublished book "the Golden key" with 25 paintings of the artist M. A. Skobelev. For the layout of the book A. N. Tolstoy telephone buyer paid 95 thousand RUB. (90 thousand RUB start). From the works Mavrina most expensive lot was an illustration of "Ruslan and Lyudmila" Pushkin — a result of 70 thousand rubles (start 67 thousand rubles).

the rest of the catalog (which is about 350 lots) were United by the theme of "Literature of Russian abroad". For the first time at auction was exposed to such a vast collection of publications in Russian, released outside of Russia. All publications were presented at the auctions of the Moscow private collection. As a result of 343 lots left 164 (48 %), and total revenues amounted to 813 thousand rubles (61 % of the average total start). The most expensive lot in this section was the filing rooms of the literary almanac "the Bridges" (Munich: ed. The Central Association of political emigrants from the USSR (TSOPE), 1958-1968): the lot was bought for 42 thousand rubles at the start of 20 thousand rubles.

At the same time we parted with the auction house "collectors" until the next bidding, which, according to the schedule on the website, scheduled for mid-October this year and will focus on porcelain and faience. We wish the organizers good luck in gathering lots and not lessinteresting catalog.

by Maria Onuchina, AI