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Collecting . . . Continued from Page 14 Nov. 17, 1917: The day the great sculptor Auguste Rodin passed
away. He created The Thinker, The Kiss, The Gates of Hell, The
Nov. 12, 2013: A signed Andy Warhol black-and-white painting portraying a Coca-Cola Burghers of Calais and other works. Rodin’s statue Eve après le péché
bottle popped to $57,285,000 at Christie’s in 2013. (Eve after the sin), created in white marble and signed, auctioned for
£2,861,875 at Christie’s in 2013.
Nov. 13, 1903: French master painter Camille Pissarro passed away at the age of 73. The Thinker
His Le Boulevard Montmartre, Matinée de Printemps auctioned for $32,108,062 at
Sotheby’s in 2014, an auction record for the artist. Nov. 19, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg
Address this day, a few months after Union forces defeated the
Nov. 14, 2007: A single Inverted Jenny stamp soared to Confederate Army at Gettysburg, Penn., the turning point of the Civil
$977,500 at Robert Siegel Auctions. A block of four of the War. Abraham Lincoln’s eyeglasses were sold by Nate D. Sanders
famous 1918 misprints topped $4.8 million in 2014 in a Auctions for $84,422 in 2013.
private sale (kovels.com, 11/4/14). In May 2016, a single
Inverted Jenny graded XF-Superb 95 sold for $1,351,250 at Nov. 22, 1968: The Beatles’ White Album was released featuring “Back in the USSR,”
Robert Siegel Auctions. “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” and “Helter Skelter.” Ringo Starr’s personal copy, estimated to
In 2006 & 2007, stampwants.com ran a promotion to sell for $60,000, hit $790,000 at Julien’s in 2015—the second most valuable album in
give away an Inverted Jenny in a drawing of those who the world. The first?
registered on their website. True to its word, one was given
away in December 2007, and it was a successful promotion. However, the website no Nov. 24, 2014: Bert Lahr’s Cowardly Lion costume from The Wizard of Oz
longer exists. sold for $3,077,000 at Bonhams.
In 2013, the U.S. Postal Service reissued 2.2 million sheets of Inverted Jenny stamp in
a $2 denomination. Then it announced that it would also print 100 Non-Inverted Jenny The Cowardly Lion costume (Photo from of Bonhams)
stamps as souvenirs and distribute them randomly. In the end, only 20 sheets of the
right-side-up plane stamp were sent to post offices. Then came the Inspector General Nov. 28, 1961: Ernie Davis became the first African American to win the
of the U.S.P.S. saying that creating that stamp was wrong because it had intentionally Heisman Trophy. He played for Syracuse and then was signed in the first
created a rarity. In 2014, Robert Siegel Auctions sold a sheet of six of the Non-Inverted round by the Cleveland Browns. He tragically passed away at the age of
Jenny stamps for $45,000. 23 to leukemia. His 1961 game-worn jersey sold for $33,460 in 2009, and
his handwritten Heisman Trophy acceptance speech hit $11,352 in 2011,
Nov. 16, 1960: Clark Gable passed away at the age of 59 due to both at Heritage Auctions.
complications after a heart attack. Gable served in World War
II as leader of a motion picture filming unit and as an observer/ Nov. 30, 1874: Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born at the right
gunner on five combat missions in the Army Air Corps; one was time for England. An auction of his estate items reached £15,441,822
over Germany. Flak shot out an engine on one plane, and on at Sotheby’s in 2014. A skilled artist also, Churchill’s painting, The
another flight, flak went through his boot. He received the Air Goldfish Pool at Chartwell, made £1.8 million in that sale (telegraph.
Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross during his tour. His leather co.uk, 12/17/14). A young Winston Churchill in uniform, 1895.
Army Air Corps flight jacket with a name tag stamped, “Clark Mike & Marla McLeod’s book, This Day in Collecting History with 650+ photos and collecting history events for
Gable,” and a 303rd Bomb Group Association circular unit insignia every day of the year, is available on Amazon.com, Schifferbooks.com, Barnesandnoble.com and at Books-A-
patch, sold for $14,351 at Nate D. Sanders Auction in 2012. Million. It’s a great present for collector and pop culture enthusiasts and history buffs.

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