[TheForge] Sorber collection

[Dan Tull]

It seems sad.

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From: "Nick Vincent" <nickv at adelphia.net>
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>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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