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Page 32 The Antique Shoppe August, 2017
August 21, 1911: Italian Vincenzo Peruggia stole Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa from the
This Month in Collecting Louvre in Paris. He was arrested two years later in Italy, but he only served seven months of a
one-year sentence. He was considered somewhat of a national hero for returning the famous
History: august. . . painting to the homeland of Leonardo da Vinci for a brief period of time.
August 21, 2016: A good day for “Shoeless Joe” Jackson—his
1909 E90-1 American Caramel Joe Jackson card rated NM-MT PSA 8,
By: Mike McLeod one of only two graded this highly and with sharp corners, exploded
to $667,189.20 at SCP Auctions. A 1909-11 E90-1 American Caramel
Joe Jackson rookie card rated PSA EX 5 sold for $143,400 at Heritage
Auctions in 2016.

August 25, 1930: The first James Bond was born, Sean Connery.
August 1: Born this day was Francis Scott Key (shown) in 1779, the Of the 26 Bond movies, Connery starred in seven; only Roger Moore
attorney who wrote The Star Spangled Banner during the War of 1812. acted in as many. In 2015, Sir Sean sold two diamonds at Sotheby’s: a
Lyrics to The Star Spangled Banner printed in 1814, without the author’s pear-shaped 15.2-carat, pink diamond for $4,058,000 and a 5-carat,
name listed, auctioned for $506,500 in 2010 at Christie’s. Of the 11 known pear-shaped diamond in a ring for $250,000. James Bond’s Aston
copies, this was the only one in private hands. Martin DB10 from the film Spectre drove off from Christie’s for $3.5
million in 2016, and his silver Aston Martin DB 5 from Goldfinger
August 2, 2015: The 1882 Colt and Thunderball went even further to $4 million in 2010 at RM
revolver belonging to gunfighter, Auction (fortune.com, 2/19/16) (Photo: Dutch National Archives,
lawman, gambler and sports reporter Bat The Hague, FotocollectieAlgemeenNederlandsPersbureau, ANeFo,
Masterson sold for $96,000 at J. Levine Auction. After 1945-1989.)
his gunfighting days, Masterson reported on prizefighting, sports and other
newsy topics for the New York Morning Telegraph. He died of a heart attack on October August 26, 1930: Lon Chaney, “The Man of a Thousand Faces,”
25, 1921 at his desk…with his boots on. (Photo credit: Tim Nelson & J. Levine Auction) passed away. With 150+ movie roles from 1913 to 1930 (imdb.
com) to his credit—including Phantom of the Opera (1925) and The
August 4, 1901: Trumpeter extraordinaire Louis Armstrong was born. His Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)—it is fitting that the one-sheet
nickname “Satchmo” was shortened from “satchel mouth,” which referred to, for London After Midnight (1927) sold for $478,000 at Heritage
well, you know. A #5219 Selmer trumpet owned by Louis Armstrong sold in Auctions in 2014. In it, he played a vampire. This was the only
2008 for $27,500 at Christie’s. known copy of the two versions of this poster. (Photo courtesy of
Heritage Auctions, HA.com)
August 5, 1906: Birthday of actor and director John Huston (The Maltese
Falcon, The African Queen, and The Misfits). In 2013, Bonham’s sold the 45- August 27, 1576: Renaissance master Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) died in Venice of a fever while
lb. lead Maltese Falcon statuette used in the Humphrey Bogart movie for the city was being ravaged by the plague. Famous for painting David and Goliath, The Rape of
$4,085,000. A resin Falcon used for still photos sold at Guernsey’s in 2010 for $305,000 to a group Europa, The Punishment of Tythus, and many more, his A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and
of collectors that included Leonardo DiCaprio.
Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria reached the height of $16,882,500 in 2011 at
Sotheby’s.
August 7, 2001: Joseph Jefferson “Shoeless Joe” Jackson’s “Black Betsy”
bat sold for $577,610 on eBay.
August 27, 2016: The Charles M. Conlon
Photographic Archive of 7,462 original negatives
August 11, 1919: Steel magnate and philanthropist of photos taken between 1904 and 1942
Andrew Carnegie passed away after giving away featuring many of the greats (Babe Ruth, Ty
hundreds of millions of dollars. He reportedly funded Cobb, Christy Mathewson, Joe DiMaggio, Lou
3,000 libraries in the U.S. and the world. A Tiffany Gehrig, Jim Thorpe and more) auctioned for
Dragonfly table lamp from Andrew Carnegie’s collection $1,792,500 at Heritage Auctions. In addition to
auctioned for $2,110,000 at Sotheby’s in 2015. players and umpires, Conlon also photographed
Conlon’s photo of Ty Cobb sliding into third fans, ballparks, how pitchers held the ball, and
(Photo courtesy of Heritage Auctions, HA.com) how batters held the lumber.
August 13, 1860: The birthday of Phoebe
Ann Mosey who became the famous Annie Oakley. A book, Annie August 28, 2005: One of the four existing pairs of Dorothy’s ruby slippers from The Wizard
Oakley of The Wild West with her signature on an enclosed note and a of Oz was stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota (forbes.com,
penny she’d shot through the center, went for $3,000 on eBay in 2016 12/3/08). The slippers have not been recovered to date.
by Quinn’s Auction. Her 16-gauge Parker Brothers hammer shotgun hit
$293,000 at Heritage Auctions in 2013. Despite her prowess in a man’s August 29, 1958: Michael Jackson was born. His sequined white glove went with a flourish
sport at the time, Annie was always a lady. Her bracelet made of 12 gold for $350,000 at Julien’s in 2009.
coins auctioned for $245,000 in 2013 at Heritage Auctions.
An 1894 or 1895 cabinet card of Annie Oakley, August 29, 1982: The Swedish movie star Ingrid Bergman passed
signed on the back, with her medals sold for away this day, sixty-seven years to the day after she was born in 1915.
$4,687.50 at Heritage Auctions in 2013. (All The piano on which “Sam” (Dooley Wilson) played As Time Goes By at
Oakley photos: Heritage Auctions, HA.com.)
her request to “Play it again, Sam,” in the movie Casa Blanca sold for
August 14, 1851: Birthday cake for O.K. Corral legend John Henry "Doc" Holliday. Doc’s frock $3.4 million at Bonhams in 2014. Another piano seen briefly in the movie
coat auctioned for $55,000, his pistol in a case for $50,000 and his dental chair for $40,000 at tuned up $602,500 at Sotheby’s in December 2012.
Guernsey’s in 2013.
August 30, 1797: The birthday of
August 16, 1948: Babe Ruth succumbed to cancer this day, but his legend continues. His Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the “mother”
circa 1920 New York Yankees game-worn jersey—his earliest known—reached $4.4 million at SCP of Frankenstein. She was married to the
Auctions in an Internet auction in 2012. poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Published in 1818, Frankenstein was
a horror classic in print and on film. A three-sheet Style C movie
August 17, 1893: Playwright, screenwriter, and come-up-and-see-me- poster from 1931 sold for $358,500 at Heritage Auctions in 2015.
sometime actress Mae West made her entrance into the world. The surrealist (Photo, courtesy of Heritage Auctions)
artist Salvador Dali created a couch shaped like her lips in the 1930s, and one
of the five originals made auctioned for £62,140 in 2003 at Christies. Credit: Timelines.ws and Wikipedia.org.; Unless otherwise credited, all
photos public domain, PD-US.
August 19: Philo T. Farnsworth, generally regarded as the inventor of
the first working and patented television, was born in 1906. In 1921, Gene
Roddenberry was born on this day and used TV to bring “Space, the final frontier” into homes Mike and Marla McLeod’s book, This Day in Collecting History
with Star Trek. Profiles in History sold Capt. Kirk’s chair for $304,000 in 2002. The original phaser with 650+ photos and collecting history events for every day of the
rifle used in only one episode by William Shatner sold for $231,000 at Julien's Auctions in 2013. year, is available on Amazon.com, Schiffer.com, Barnesandnoble.
com and at Books-A-Million. It’s a great present for collector and
pop culture friends and history buffs.