Obscure Auction - German Orders

[Luftmensch]

Here are some auction lots that might be of interest, from an obscure house that has hooked up with Sotheby's...

Morton & Eden

http://www.mortonandeden.com/

Imperial German lots start here...

http://www.invaluable.com/PartnerPages/sal...HouseID=1103888

A couple teasers...

Not German, but interesting in an over-the-top way...

Rgds

[JBFloyd]

Morton & Eden is selling the foreign awards from the collection of the American Numismatic Society, in New York. This is a collection put together about 80 years ago and has a remarkable range of material. This is part 1 of a 2-part sale, I believe.

[Ed_Haynes]

Not in any way an obscure auction house, but some really nice material from an old collection. Surprised to see it coming up, though. But, then, numismatics is not phaleristics.

[Stogieman]

Thanks John, they have some interesting and obscure pieces listed!!

[VtwinVince]

Ach du liebes Bisschen, did you see the 1813 EK Spange? What a great collection of items, and the estimates seem ridiculously low.

[Ed_Haynes]

Ach du liebes Bisschen, did you see the 1813 EK Spange? What a great collection of items, and the estimates seem ridiculously low.

M&E tends to have low estimates. They seem to think this encourages bidding. Maybe they have a point. But non-British stuff has not been strong in UK auctions over the last couple of years. We shall see . . . .

It is my understanding that there may be another installment coming.

[Guest Rick Research]

And why is a NEW YORK institution "de-accessioning" (I that euphemism for "we're cashing in on your 'permanent' donations") to a BRITISH auction house?

Are there no auctioneers in The Big Apple?

Can it be

SHAME

????

[JBFloyd]

The ANS is selling its non-US medal collection to fund its acquisition of items more central to their core interests. The board accepted proposlas from a number of US and overseas auction houses, but chose to go with Morton & Eden.

They chose not to liquidate their US collection. I don't know what sealed that decision, but it may have been the discovery that they could not sell their Medals of Honor. At one point, they thought they could get a waiver to Title 18, Section 704, to sell them. It would be interesting to see what a Civil War Medal of Honor to a sailor aboard USS Kearsarge would bring in the open market. Or some Davis Guard Medals. We may never know.

[Luftmensch]

Personally, I think they would have done much better with Spink, or Dix Noonan, or.....Floyd Johnson & Paine!!!

[Stefan]

http://www.mortonandeden.com/pdfcats/21web.pdf

Nice helmet story at #76

/Stefan

[Stefan]

Anyone saved some pictures from the 1813 EK auctions - #665, #666, #668?

/Stefan

[Great Dane]

Anyone saved some pictures from the 1813 EK auctions - #665, #666, #668?

/Stefan

Sure did. Do you want the picture by PM? (it's about 600KB).

/Mike

[medalnet]

I did actually go to London for the 1st part of this auction and found almost only dealers bidding on all those pieces. Nevertheless, to say the least: It wasn't cheap.

[Ed_Haynes]

They just had the final (third) part of the ANS sale today.

I went 3 for 12, which is better than 0 for 12, I guess?!

One of the rarer items, not of much direct interest to me, but super-rare:

Edited April 26, 2007 by Ed_Haynes

[David S]

Wow !

I've only seen a line drawing (hand colored) (in an old book) of that before !!

[Ed_Haynes]

Wow !

I've only seen a line drawing (hand colored) (in an old book) of that before !!

Yeah. Not sure what the hammer was, but the estimate was ?3000-5000 and M&E estimates are low!

[Yankee]

And why is a NEW YORK institution "de-accessioning" (I that euphemism for "we're cashing in on your 'permanent' donations") to a BRITISH auction house?

Are there no auctioneers in The Big Apple?

Can it be

SHAME

????

Certainly agree, all the good people would be horrified to learn that their donations can no longer be viewed by the public, in hindsight would have been better for the owners to leave their collections to family, big big mistake now. I for one always enjoyed visiting the ANS and view their amazing collection now no longer possible . Tons of auction houses in NYC, I feel collections large or small if formed in the States should be sold in the States. In the past had good experiences with MortonandEden ( quick to reply ) more then I can say for some of the other foreign auction houses.