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PhotograPhic Journey
This Month in Collecting History:
AUGUST
by Mike McLeod
August 2, 2015: The 1882 Colt revolver
belonging to gunfighter, lawman, gambler, and
sports reporter Bat Masterson sold for $96,000 at J. Levine
Auction. A pocket watch presented to the gunfighter by the
citizens of Dodge City in 1885 made $15,893 at RR Auctions
(Kansas.com, 7/14/16 and americancowboychronicles.com, 7/19/16).
After his gunfighting days, Masterson was a reporter for the New York
Morning Telegraph. He died of a heart attack on October 25, 1921 at his
desk…with his boots on. (Photo courtesy of Tim Nelson and J. Levine Auction) Century clocks and home furnishings highlighted the Sarasota Estate Auction’s
August 5: Birthdays of actor and director John Huston, 1906 (The
Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, and The Misfits), and Astronaut Neil
Armstrong, 1930. In 2013, Bonham’s sold the 45-lb. lead Maltese Falcon
statuette used in the Humphrey Bogart movie for $4,085,000. A resin
Falcon used for still photos sold at Guernsey’s in 2010 for $305,000 to a
group of collectors that included Leonardo DiCaprio.
August 7, 2001: Joseph Jefferson “Shoeless Joe” Jackson’s Black Betsy
bat sold for $577,610 on eBay. In 2019, a T210 Joe Jackson 1910 Old Mill
tobacco card Series 8, PSA VG+ 3.5, hit $600,000. In 2020, another Jackson
T210 Old Mill from 1910, rated SGC VG+ 3.5, sold for $492,000, both at
Heritage Auctions.
Jackson’s 12-year career (batting average .356) was cut short by the Black
Sox scandal in the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. All eight
players were acquitted in court but banned from baseball.
August 11, 1919: Steel magnate and philanthropist
Andrew Carnegie passed away after giving away
hundreds of millions of dollars. He reportedly funded
3,000 libraries in the U.S. and the world. A Tiffany
Dragonfly table lamp from Andrew Carnegie’s collection
auctioned for $2,110,000 at Sotheby’s in 2015. (Photo
courtesy of Sotheby’s)
August 13, 1860: The
birthday of Phoebe Ann Mosey
who became
famous as Annie Oakley. A book, Annie Oakley of
The Wild West, with her signature on an enclosed
note and a penny she’d shot through the center
sold for $3,000 on eBay in 2016 by Quinn’s Auction.
Her 16-gauge Parker Brothers hammer shotgun hit
$293,000 at Heritage Auctions in 2013. In 2019, her
gold-plated Marlin Model 1897 rifle, engraved to
“Little Miss Sure Shot,” shot up to $575,000 at Rock
Island Auctions (rockislandauctions.com, 12/11/19).
August 14, 1851: Birthday of O.K. Corral legend
John Henry “Doc” Holliday. In April of 2018, his signature on a document
went for almost $80,000 at Nate D. Sanders Auction. Doc’s frock coat
auctioned for $55,000, his pistol in a case for $50,000 and his dental chair
for $40,000 at Guernsey’s in 2013.
August 16, 1948: Babe Ruth succumbed to cancer
this day, but his legend continues. His circa 1920
New York Yankees game-worn jersey—his earliest
known—reached $4.4 million at SCP Auctions in
an Internet auction in 2012. This was the most ? ?
ever paid for a sports item—until June 15 , 2019 when
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the Babe’s c. 1928-1929 road jersey smashed the record
by hitting $5.64 million at Hunt Auctions. The grey
flannel jersey was from the Murders’ Row Era of the
1920s and also from the time of the Babe’s 500 home
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run on April 11, 1929. In May 2020, his 1921 bat,
nd
used to hit his 52 home run that year, rated PSA/
GNU 10, went for $930,000 at Heritage Auctions. It
was almost a yard long and weighed 43.2 oz. (Photo
courtesy of SCP Auctions)
August 16, 1854: Furniture and cabinetmaker
Duncan Phyfe passed away this day. His furniture
was in such demand in the late 18 and the first
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half of the 19 centuries that he was known as the
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“United States Rage.”
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SARASOTA ESTATE AUCTION CELEBRATES NEW LOCATION
WITH JULY & SEPTEMBER AUCTIONS
Sarasota— Andrew Ford and Sarasota Estate Auction relocated to 522 S.
Pineapple Ave. in the iconic Burns Court area of south Sarasota in June 2020,
and completed a major renovation of the space. The result of an extensive
renovation is an open and airy space with a lot of natural light.
Large flat screen televisions have been added thorough the location so that
the live auction can be viewed throughout the space. The auction house now
shares the location with Sarasota Trading Co. and are a gallery and auction
house combined into one. The first auction in the new location was held on
Sunday July 26, 2020. The auction offered absentee and phone bidding as well
as online bidding through Liveauctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Bidsquare.
com.
A large collection of Asian and Southwestern pottery, fine art, Nineteenth
July 26 sale. Titled the “Important Fine Art, Chinese, Native American Sale”,
it included close to 750 items. A large collection of over 250 pieces of fine art
from: James Whistler, Narcisse Virgilio Diaz, Frans Van Leemputten, William
Sonntag Sr., Victor Dupre, Philip Lyford, Thomas Rowlandson, original Picasso
drawing, and 17th C. Old Master Painting and were featured as well, a rare
collection of Chinese antiques including: Two large antique crane footed
Chinese Censors. A lifetime collection of Native American and Southwestern
art and pottery was also available from various artists.
Sarasota Estate Auction is currently accepting consignments for their
September auction. If you have items that you’re interested in consigning, the
auction staff will be happy to assist you. The auction house can be reached
directly at 941-359-8700 or via email at sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com.
Also, they welcome foot traffic between the hours of 9:30am-5:30pm Mon.-
Wed. and 9:30am-7:30pm Thu.-Sat.
APPLE SHORTCAKE (1880)
•Fill a square bread tin three-quarters full of sliced sour apples
•Make a thick batter of:
• 1/2 a cupful of sour cream
• 1/2 a cupful of buttermilk
• 1 teaspoonful of saleratus
• a little salt
• enough flour to make quite stiff--a
little stiffer than cake.
•Turn this over the apples
•Bake 45 minutes, and serve with sauce, or cream and sugar flavored
with nutmeg.
(Vintage Leavening: Saleratus & Pearlash. From around 1740, a powder called
pearlash was used as leavening in quick breads. ... Also known as sodium bicarbonate
or sodium hydrogen carbonate, its chemical compound formula is NaHCO3.
The product which we call baking soda today was referred to as saleratus from around
1860)
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