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Page 14 The Antique Shoppe February, 2018
February 13, 1891: February 19, 1473:
PhotograPhic Journey Birthday of Grant Wood, the Nicolaus Copernicus was born
creator of the iconic and often in Poland and changed the world by
This Month in Collecting History: lampooned American Gothic. revealing it revolved around the sun.
February Public Library in Dubuque, Iowa, this totally new concept, De
His 1543 treatise explaining
In 2016, the Carnegie-Stout
turned down an offer of $6 million to Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium,
by Mike McLeod buy the painting, The Appraisal, by Libri V, sold for $2,210,500 in 2008 at
Grant Wood in its collection (omaha. Christie’s.
February 1, 1901: February 4, 1902: com, 1/25/16).
Frankly, Scarlett, it’s my birthday. Charles Lindbergh was born to fly. American Gothic↓ February 20, 1902:
Clark (his real name) Gable earned A letter and envelope he carried The birthday of Ansel Adams,
$120,000 while working 71 days on the first solo flight across the the black and white photographer
filming Gone With The Wind in Atlantic to Paris on May 20-21, extraordinaire. In addition to fabulous
1939. Gable’s Best Actor Oscar for It 1927 sold for $110,000 in 2001, and landscapes, Adams also took photos
Happened One Night (his only Oscar) another letter landed at $155,000 in of Japanese in U.S. internment camps
hit $607,500 in 1996 at Christie’s. 1999, both at Robert Siegel Auction during WWII.
Vivien Leigh earned $25,000 for Galleries. His
working 125 days—about $422,000 Lindbergh carried no parachute moonrise,
in today’s money (imdb.com). Her with him on that flight, figuring there Hernandez,
Oscar for Best Actress in Gone With was no need if he did not make it New Mexico
The Wind auctioned for $563,500 (charleslindbergh.com). (1948), signed
at Sotheby’s in 1993 (variety.com, He lived until and printed
12/15/93). 1974. in 1948, was
auctioned for
February 2, 1969: $609,600 in
William Henry Pratt died at the 2006. In 2016, this photo, probably
age of 81. Born in London, he played ←Charles February 15, 1564: printed between 1963 and 1970,
fearsome characters under the stage Lindbergh Birthday of Galileo Galilei in sold for $56,250, both at Sotheby’s.
with the Spirit of
name of “Boris Karloff.” St. Louis, 1927 Pisa, Italy (according to the Julian
Karloff was a calendar). February 25, 1841:
classic... Galileo’s 1610 Sidereus Nuncius The birth of Pierre-Auguste Renoir
...Frankenstein, February 9, 1971: (The Starry Messenger) describing in Limoges, France. As a young man,
the Mummy, Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige was his observations by telescope of Renoir worked in a porcelain factory
Dr. Fu Manchu, the first African American nominated craters on the moon, four moons of as a design painter (metmuseum.
the voice of the for the Baseball Hall of Fame; he Jupiter, and stars unseen without a org).
Grinch and the was inducted in August of that year telescope auctioned for $662,500 in Renoir’s Bal du moulin de la
narrator in How (history.com). 2010 at Christie’s. Galette auctioned for $78.1 million
↑Boris Karloff The Grinch Stole One of his two Hall of Fame rings at Sotheby’s in 1990. (A galette is a
(Photo courtesy of Christmas. flat, round, crusty cake.)
Heritage Auctions) sold for $25,000 in 2015 by Lelands,
Frankenstein which reported that the other ring
movie posters sell in the range of a was sold previously by his family for
few hundred dollars to a few hundred $259,642.
thousand dollars.
A 41 x 78.5-inch three sheet February 12, 1809:
Style C Frankenstein (1931) poster Abraham Lincoln was born in
hit a frightening $358,500 in 2015. Kentucky.
A Bride of Frankenstein one sheet In January 2015, the 302-lot Dow
Style D poster auctioned in 2007 Collection of Lincoln memorabilia
for $334,600—as did The Black Cat sold for $803,889 at Heritage
(1934) one sheet Style B in 2009. Auctions, including: a clip of Pres.
Karloff’s costume from The Black Lincoln’s hair taken by the surgeon
Cat sold for $89,625 in 2009. All at attending him, $25,000; a letter
Heritage Auctions and all Boris Karloff. signed by Lincoln authorizing the ↑Bal du moulin de la Galette
exchange of Robert E. Lee’s son who
February 3, 1468: was a prisoner of war, $27,500; a February 26, 1846:
Johannes Gutenberg passed piece of blood-stained linen from William Frederick “Buffalo Bill”
away. Pres. Lincoln’s deathbed, $6,000; Cody was born. As a scout for the
A Gutenberg Bible sold in 1987 John Wilkes Booth’s arrest warrant, ↑The first appearance of Spider-Man U.S. Army, Cody fought in more than
for $5.4 million at Christie’s (nyt.com, $21,250; a White House funeral (Photo courtesy of Heritage Auctions) a dozen battles and won the Medal
10/23/87). Printed in the 1450s, the admittance card, $11,875. of Honor for bravery. He excelled
British Library records that Gutenberg February 18, 2016: as a hunter, horseman, scout and
printed 180 bibles, and 48 are still in Spider-Man arrived in Amazing showman.
existence, not all being complete (bl. Fantasy #15 in 1962. In 2012, Buffalo Bill Cody’s
uk). A single leaf from a Gutenberg A 9.4 rated, near-mint copy of it Remington New Model Army
Bible sold for $56,250 at Christie’s in sold on this day at Heritage Auctions .44 percussion revolver and
2012. for $454,100. accompanying letters, photos and
Admittance card to Pres. Lincoln’s ephemera sold for $239,000 at
White House funeral → Heritage Auctions.
(Photo courtesy of Heritage Auctions)