[TheForge] Sorber collection

[magichammer]

Thanks for your report Nick.
dave mudge

Nick Vincent wrote:

>I attended the auction. Don Plummer and Jim Sorber were seated at a
>table by the auctioneer signing catalogs and books. The items were
>displayed on 3 floors in the gallery. The collection had never been
>displayed in one location before and it was impressive. Bidding started
>at 9am and ended about 5pm, 697 lots, the rate was about 100 lots per
>hour early on, slowed up a little as the "hot" items came up. This was a
>gallery auction like the ones in NY, no holding up individual items.
>Pictures of the current item were shown on the large projection screen
>above the auctioneer's head. The realized prices are up on Pook and
>Pook's web page. The overall feeling was that things were high priced.
>If you think about though in some lots there were lots of items so the
>price per piece was more believable, however the skewer set for $10,000
>I still don't understand. It was definitely an emotional let down
>because of my friendship with Jim and Don, a very impressive collection
>that was collected over a lifetime and dispersed in 8 hours for around
>$600,000. Go through the list there are just too many mind boggling
>things. I sat behind Richard Wannamaker(sp?), it is my understanding he
>was to bid for the museum but I don't thik he purchased anything. There
>was lots of press there, check Maine Antique Digest and The Magazine
>Antiques in the coming issues. There was a virtual whos who of antique
>dealers from across the country. They had 5 phone banks open for bidding
>and 2 people monitoring live bids on eBay, a very efficient operation.
>
>Nick Vincent
>Nathan's Forge, Ltd.
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