Japanese Robots And Space Toys Also Highlight Milestone Auction
On May 30, Milestone Auctions in metro Cleveland, Ohio, auctioned the first installment of antique toys from David Leitner’s remarkable personal collection built over a 50-year period. Nearly 650 choice toys from various categories took the spotlight, including early European windups, postwar Japanese robots and space toys, and a diverse assortment of rare motorcycle toys, many retaining their original pictorial boxes. Throughout the day, internet and phone bidders were dominant. Milestone’s co-owner Miles King observed that this probably correlated to the origins of most of the toys being offered. “A high percentage of bids came from outside the U.S., especially countries where the toys were manufactured. We expected overseas bidders would be very active because Dave’s collection contained so many desirable antique European and Japanese toys. He owned many pieces that collectors could relate to worldwide because they were produced primarily, sometimes exclusively, for shipment to foreign markets. This explains why, for example, so many of the most elusive Japanese robots tend to turn up in American attics rather than in their country of origin. On the flip side, collectors outside Japan really go for 1950s and ‘60s toy boxes with Japanese writing, which indicates the toys were produced for domestic release.”
The Nomura (Japan) 12.5-inch battery-operated Interplanetary Space Fighter was all original and in excellent condition with a clean battery box and pictorial box. Estimated at $1,500 to $2,000, it sold for $5,781.
The robot and space toy selection numbered more than 150 pieces and included some of the most sought-after mid-20th-century Japanese productions. A particularly fine example of Masudaya’s 23-inch tin Space Ship X-7, a scarce silver version of the
One of the rarest of all
in the sale,
impressively-sized interplanetary craft, showed off a sleek design and appealing colors. Its
friction mechanism worked when tested. Examples of the X-7 seldom
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A Lehmann (Germany) tin windup “Lana” EPL 776 sedan in bright orange and Prussian blue with red pinstriping, all original, including driver figure, and in excellent condition, accompanied by original Lehmann box with bilingual instructions, sold for $6,150 against an estimate of $1,000 to $1,500.
$3.875 Million
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The original Don Heck artwork introducing Tony Stark’s superhero persona, page one of “Tales of Suspense No. 39” from March 1963, made history once again July 10 when it set a new auction price record for original comic art, taking in $3,875,000 as the highlight lot in Heritage Auctions’ Comic Art Signature Auction. “A fantastic image and a historic book combine for a record price,” declared Joe Mannarino, Heritage Auctions’ New Yorkbased director of comics and comic art. “Very few of the early Marvel splash pages are known to exist. When one shows up, the market is ready to react.” That is especially true in the case of wildly popular characters
Potter & Potter Auctions held a 704-lot books and manuscripts sale on July 9. All prices noted include the auction house’s 20 percent buyer’s premium. The top lot was a sammelband of eight 19th-century booklets about Bunker Hill. Estimated at $300 to $500, it made $11,400. The various compiled histories dated from 1819-75. A sammelband is a gathered bound volume which contains separate works.
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Lehmann (Germany) toys
the 9-inch “Pilot” motorcycle, Model EPL 726, was made in the second decade of the 20th century, all original with a working windup mechanism and assessed to be in VG-excellent condition, it surpassed its high estimate to sell for $8,400.
Hake’s Anti-Slavery To Civil Rights Auction
Frederick Douglass Broadside From 1872 Achieves $25,486
Eugene Warburg’s Parian statue titled “Uncle Tiff” sold for $95,592, an original “I Am A Man” protest placard from the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike brought $58,427, and a Frederick Douglass broadside from a ca. 1872 Republican Party rally in Maine realized $25,486 at Hake’s Anti-Slavery to Civil Rights Auction, which closed June 23. The sale totaled $472,118, including the buyer’s premium.
The catalog was filled with rare, important and
historically-significant items, with a timeline starting in the 1780s and advancing through the MLK era to the Obama presidency. The auction included the first installment of the Rex and Patti Stark collection, one of the foremost private holdings of antislavery ceramics. The auction also featured consignments from around the country compiled by Hake’s Americana director Scott Mussell, whose passion for documenting the African American experience was
amply reflected in the sale’s 366 lots. “We’re thrilled by the response across the globe to this sale,” said Mussell. “Strong bidding came in from institutions and individuals passionate about preserving this important history.”
Eugene Warburg’s (182559) ca. 1856 Copeland Staffordshire Parian porcelain statuette of “Uncle Tiff,” a character from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Dred,” was the overall top lot of the auction. The delicate, well-detailed 12-inch tall sculpture blew past its $20,000 high estimate to realize a final selling price of
$95,592, an auction record for the artist. Warburg was born enslaved in New Orleans, La., and is among the earliest-known African American sculptors. Surviving works by his hand are extremely rare.
A cardboard placard with just the four words “I Am A Man” in bold black ink nearly tripled the $20,000 high estimate by reaching $58,427. It was a new world auction record for one of the most iconic American civil-rights artifacts, while also being one of the simplest and most unassuming. The variant script corresponded to that seen on materials used at the
Martin Luther King Memorial March for Union Justice and to End Racism, held April 8, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn.
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A rare “March For Freedom Now” protest button used at a 1960 demonstration outside the Republican National Convention in Chicago, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., 2.5 inches in diameter, sold for $4,774.
This ceramic miniature portrait of the militant American abolitionist John Brown (1800-59), after an M. Lawrence daguerreotype, rendered ca. 1859-60, 3.75 by 4.75 inches, sold for $6,691.
The 1856, 12-by-19-inch proJames Buchanan satirical broadside headlined “Rally! No Popery! No Slavery! No Rum!” taking jabs at the American and Republican Party positions on key issues, sold for $10,038.
A cardboard placard measuring 13.75 by 21.25 inches, with “I Am A Man” in black ink, corresponding to words used by protestors during the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike in 1968, sold for $58,427.
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A ca. 1820s anti-slavery tortoiseshell and horn octagonal tea caddy with inlaid bone panels and an ornate silver top hinge with a wax figure of a kneeling enslaved figure in chains sold for $16,285.
glossy, well-made button showing a
A ca. 1872 thin, canaryyellow broadside advertising a Maine Republican Party
A ca. 1856 Copeland Staffordshire Parian porcelain statuette of “Uncle Tiff,” a character from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Dred,” created by African American sculptor Eugene Warburg sold for $95,592.
The
full-color depiction of Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington at a historic Oct. 16, 1901, White House dinner sold for $14,401.
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rally announcing African American social abolitionist orator, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass (1818-95) and former Maine governor and state Republican Party co-founder Israel Washburne (1813-83) as guest speakers topped the $20,000 high estimate with a selling price of $25,486. It rained that day in Aug. 1872, thus greatly diminishing chances that the broadside would survive, but it did.
A ca. 1820s anti-slavery tortoiseshell and horn tea caddy, octagonal in form with inlaid bone panels and an ornate silver top hinge, showing a wax figure of a kneeling
enslaved figure in chains atop a pedestal against a painted bone background, went for $16,285, easily besting its $6,000 high estimate. The lot was encased under a verre eglomise domed glass cover framed in silver inlay. The tea caddy corresponded to efforts by female abolitionists throughout the 1820s to boycott slave-produced sugar.
A button with a full-color depiction of Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington at an Oct. 16, 1901, White House dinner, the first time an African American was ever invited to dine at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, went for $14,401 against a high estimate of $10,000. The depiction of the two men sharing
a drink from a bottle of liquor suggests the design was likely produced as satire intended to support Roosevelt’s opponent Alton Parker during the 1904 U.S. presidential campaign.
This ca. 1830s Staffordshire brightly enameled emancipation statue on an octagonal peach base, 6.5 inches tall, depicting a jubilant man emerging from the bonds of slavery, sold for $9,125.
Lot 59, a ca. 1820 Staffordshire anti-slavery statue, depicted an enslaved man and his “master” on an octagonal base. It was a jarring and explicit depiction of physical violence, as the slavemaster whips the enslaved man, whose hand holds the chains that bind him. The statue had hand-detailed and painted features, with minimal restoration. It brought $3,515.
Lot 60 was another 6.5-inch tall, ca. 1830s Staffordshire emancipation statue, brightly enameled and showing a jubilant man emerging from the bonds of slavery, with a whip and chains lying broken beneath his feet. Britannia clutches a shield, while a cornucopia and English rose are bolstered by the Bible as bedrock. It finished just below its high estimate, at $9,125. The book “Staffordshire Figures 1780-1840” states that both of the statues offered by Hake’s
are the only known examples. A ca. 1909 painted plaster bust of educator, author, orator, and political leader Booker T. Washington (18561915) by African American artist Isaac Hathaway (18721967), 11 inches tall on a plinth, settled at $7,199. Hathaway devoted his storied career to producing works of notable subjects, among them Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Reverend Richard Allen. A ceramic miniature portrait of the militant American abolitionist John Brown (1800-59) after an M. Lawrence daguerreotype, rendered ca. 1859-60, hit $6,691. The delicate, highly-detailed rendering on a field of green, with bright fleshy tones and deep blue eyes, bears a resemblance to a John Brown portrait attributed to Helen Brodt.
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The ca. 1840s six-piece nesting blue-green botanical transferware wedding cakestyle set with anti-slavery subject and supportive biblical verse (“Let the oppressed go free”) sold for $5,027.
Collector Chats With Peter S. Seibert
This Week: More Books!
By Peter Seibert
Last column, I talked about collecting books that related back to the places where I have lived. Such collecting can be tremendous fun, although if Steinbeck or Hemingway happens to be from your hometown, then it might get a little pricey. Another kind of book collecting to pursue is what I call “books that tell another tale.”
These are books that may have not just a signature by the author but also perhaps a note or a doodle. One of my favorites is a copy of an
exhibition catalog for the artist Red Grooms. The catalog is pretty normal until about midway through that you stumble on a page where a painting is illustrated. Beneath, in Grooms’ handwriting, is a note about who he sold the painting to and what it brought. It’s the kind of intimate link that connects one to the author.
Another favorite of mine is a book by one of the celebrated or infamous (your choice) “Weathermen.” No, I am not talking about folks who predict rain but rather the radicals who undertook violence to make societal change in the late 1960s. The book is something of a justification for their actions and not particularly well written. However, tucked into the book when I purchased it was an early word processor generated speech by the author. The holes on the edges and the dot matrix printing were clues that it must have been written in the 1980s. In the speech, the author of the book goes on the offensive verbally about what he believes were misstatements
quoted to him. It is a nifty little touch of history that ties it all together.
People often ask me how I find books with such interesting little notations and nuggets handwritten and hidden in the pages. The answer is lots of perseverance as many were found by simply checking inside a book before buying it. The other secret is that many were found in used bookstores in and around Washington, D.C. There was a time, it seems, that every home in the Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. area had a library of books that were frequently signed and inscribed by the author. I recall visits to Second Story Books where I found many a volume with a nifty little dream inscription on the inside.
My other source of such books is from friends who are culling down libraries. A dear friend of my wife’s gave us a collection of books by John Nichols, who was a friend of hers. Each one has a doodle or quote by Nichols somewhere in the front of the book. I had to find a copy of “The Milagro Beanfield War”
to finish the set of his published works, but otherwise it was pretty complete.
So, as you head out this summer to perhaps do some summer reading, maybe you should check out those used bookstores near you and look for some really wonderful treasures with dream inscriptions on the inside.
“Born to collect” should be the motto of Peter Seibert’s family. Raised in Central Pennsylvania, Seibert has been collecting and writing about antiques for more than three decades. By day, he is a museum director and has worked in Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Virginia and New Mexico. In addition, he advises and consults with auction houses throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, particularly about American furniture and decorative arts. Seibert’s writings include books on photography, American fraternal societies and paintings. He and his family are restoring a 1905 arts and crafts house filled with years’ worth of antique treasures found in shops, co-ops and at auctions.
This ca. 1872 thin, canary-yellow broadside advertising a Maine Republican Party rally publicizing Frederick Douglass and former Maine governor Israel Washburne as guest speakers sold for $25,486.
A ca. 1909 painted plaster bust of educator, author, orator, and political leader Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) by African American artist Isaac Hathaway (1872-1967), 11 inches tall, sold for $7,199.
Coin-Op And Advertising Auction Hits Jackpot
Rare Ca. 1905-10 Caille Brothers Mfg. (Detroit. Mich.) “Centaur”
Triple Slot Machine With Harp Castings Rings Up $227,500
A ca. 1905-10 Caille Brothers Mfg “Centaur” triple slot machine with rare harp castings soared to $227,500, and a ca. 1900-05 Mills “20th Century” upright slot machine in the scarce one-dollar denomination rang up $92,250 at Morphy’s Coin-Op and Advertising auction held May 21 to 23 in Las Vegas, Nev. More than 1,700 lots of top-quality items were sold. Overall, the sale totaled in excess of $3 million.
The Caille Brothers Mfg (Detroit, Mich.) “Centaur” was fully-restored, fully-functional and the auction’s top achiever, landing within its presale estimate. The visually striking gaming device was designed with three
independently-operating slot machines housed in one cabinet. This configuration gave customers the option of choosing their preferred denomination.
A ca. 1905-10 Caille Bros double upright combination slot machine featuring a 5-cent “Centaur” and a 25-cent “Big Six” within a single cabinet changed hands for $79,950, just under the high estimate. The restored machine represented an efficient multi-denomination configuration designed to maximize operator revenue while also conserving floor space and meeting licensing requirements. It paid and played correctly. A ca. 1899 Mills Duplex 5-cent upright slot
The original oval-shape Yosemite Beer sign showing scrollwork and vibrant colors, 16 by 20 inches and graded 9.0+ for condition, housed in the original frame, sold for
machine with a light oak cabinet displayed a nicely mottled brass patina and impressive overall condition, including its castings. The 70-inchtall machine was designed to allow up to 10 nickels to be played per pull. Professionally restored with a replacement wheel and keys, it played and paid correctly. Against a $60,000 high estimate, it settled at $66,420.
A 1910 Buffalo Brewing Company lithographed calendar titled “At the Opera,” based on an original painting by B. Zickendrakaht, was a true auction “sleeper.” The calendar depicting a beautiful lady in an evening gown showed good color and still had its complete set of months at the lower lefthand corner. It was rated 8.5 for condition and had been matted in a contemporary frame. Against a high estimate of $5,000, it realized $24,600.
A ca. 1942 Rock-Ola Corp. (Chicago, Ill.) Model 1418 Commando jukebox with top speaker bowl and 20 78-RPM records more than tripled the high estimate at $19,680. The designs of WWII-era RockOla jukeboxes are considered to be among the most original and unconventional in all of jukebox history. The one auctioned at Morphy’s had undergone a complete
The ca. 1899
cosmetic restoration and artfully reflected the post-Art Deco period with its bright colors, plastics and nickel plating.
A Mills cast-iron 5-cent Liberty Bell slot machine found in the basement of the Grand Imperial Hotel in Las Vegas achieved $17,835, well above the $10,000 high estimate. The machine showed an older replating in Watts nickel, with original reel strips, award cards, marquee, and new coin
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The ca. 1900-05 Mills “20th Century” upright slot machine configured in the one-dollar denomination, one of the rarest and most desirable versions within Mills’ floormodel line, sold for $92,250.
This ca. 1905-10 Caille Bros. double upright combination slot machine featuring a 5-cent “Centaur” and a 25-cent “Big Six,” housed in a single cabinet, sold for $79,950, just shy of the high estimate.
This ca. 1908 Caille onecent coin-op invited players to “Shake Hands With Uncle Sam.” It breezed past the $16,000 high estimate to realize $24,600. An early and unique grip strength tester, it stands at 77.5 inches tall.
$54,120.
A large S. Grabfelder & Co. (Louisville, Ky.) label-underglass, wicker-wrapped whiskey bottle with handle dating to the late 1890s or very early 1900s, in the original crate with applied label, sold for $28,290.
Mills Duplex 5-cent upright slot machine, 70 inches tall with light oak cabinet with mottled brass patina, very nice castings, sold for $66,420.
The Caille Brothers Mfg. (Detroit) “Centaur” triple slot machine with rare harp castings, designed with three independently-operating slot machines housed in one cabinet, sold for $227,500.
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A Watling 50-cent denomination Roll-A-Top twin jackpot slot machine, completely restored and featuring original reel strips, back door and coin box, came with 128 silver coins and sold for $20,910.
box. The serial number 291 was very early. A bonus: the payout tubes still had some V and buffalo nickels in them.
A restored ca. 1910 Koken Supply Co. (St. Louis, Mo.) lighted barber pole with iconic red and white stripes, hexagonal in shape with a stainedglass globe and standing tall at 85 inches in height, went for $9,840, almost double the $5,000 high estimate. The barber pole was also accompanied by a replacement globe. For additional information, email info@morphy auctions.com or visit www.morphy auctions.com.
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Rock-Ola Corp. (Chicago) Model 1418 Commando jukebox with top speaker bowl, stocked with 20 78-RPM records, completely restored, with bright color, plastics and nickel plating, sold for $19,680.
A ca. 1910s double-sided figural light-up trade sign in the form of an early pair of glasses from Dr. Blakey Optometrist, with four reverse-painted glass lenses having catchy “eyeball” graphics, realized $36,900.
This ca. 1924 illuminating leaded-glass trade sign for the Roth Johnson Drug Store in the form of a mortar and pestle with multicolored “jewels” sold for $43,050.
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such as “Iron Man.” Bidding was highly competitive, with six different bidders continuing to vie for the page after it passed the $3 million mark. Mannarino credits the character with helping develop a new generation of fans starting in 2008 with the Robert Downey Jr.-starring “Iron Man,” Marvel Studio’s
first entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, leading to the “Avengers” and beyond.
The sale price tops the previous Comic Art price record of $3,360,000 set in January 2022 at Heritage by 1984’s Marvel Super-Heroes “Secret Wars No. 8” story page 25, the Mike Zeck art revealing Peter Parker’s new black costume that turns out to be a character itself, “Venom.”
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Eight 19th-century booklets about Bunker Hill, estimated at $300 to $500, realized $11,400.
Craft, Clues And Cooking: Recreating The Trimble Kitchen
Presentation To Take Place At Historic Rock Ford On Aug. 5
On Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 6 p.m., Historic Rock Ford will welcome Tony Shahan of Flavors of History as he presents a lecture titled “Craft, Clues and Cooking: Recreating the Trimble Kitchen.”
Learn about the research and archaeology that uncovered the important evidence in this 1739 kitchen at Newlin Grist Mill in Glen Mills, Pa. Follow along with each new discovery as Shahan peels back the layers to uncover the early 18th-century space and its later uses. Learn about how the space was restored as an experimental kitchen and meet
some of the trades and craftspeople who reconstructed furnishings to make the kitchen functional. This is a study of a kitchen from the architectural, archaeological, documentary, and cook’s perspectives.
This lecture will be held in the Langmuir Education Room on the first floor of the Rock Ford Barn. Admission is for the lecture only.
During his over 38 years in the museum field, Tony Shahan has worked to ensure that the stories of our shared past remain alive and accessible. He has a passion for historic food and beverage
delivered $9,000. It was published in Basel by Nicolaus Kesler in 1496 and was the se venth incunable edition of the work. Gregory is cr edited with founding the medieval papacy and is famous for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian Mission, to convert the pagan Anglo-Saxons in England to Christianity. The work was written between 578 and 595.
A first trade edition in the first-issue dust jacket edition of Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” was estimated at $4,000 to $6,000 and sold for $7,800. It was published in New York by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1929. It retained its publisher’s unclipped (“$2.50”) dust jack et designed by Cleon with “Katharine” misspelled on the front flap.
Zora Neale Hurston’s “Jonah’s Gourd Vine,” estimated at $1,000 to $1,500, brought $4,320.
and creates historic drink classes and curated tastings.
In addition, he has restored and reconstructed mills, water systems, and kitchens. He combines his love of historic trades with experimental archaeology and has led projects in brick making, manufacturing potash, recreating a 1739 experimental kitchen and pantry, and most recently rebuilding a water wheel using only 18th-century tools and techniques. He is experienced with hearth cooking,
wood-fired bake ovens, brewing and distilling. He has worked in an 1806 brewery, reconstructed 1850 brewery, and George Washington’s Distillery at Mount Vernon.
General admission tickets are $10 and may be purchased at www.HistoricRockFord.org/ special-events.
Historic Rock Ford is located at 881 Rock Ford Road, Lancaster, Pa. It is owned and operated by the Rock Ford Foundation, a private, not-forprofit corporation.
“ Jonah’s Gourd Vine” by Zora Neale Hurston (18911960) was estimated at $1,000 to 1,500 and sold for $4,320. This rare first edition of Hurston’s first novel featured an introduction by Fanny Hurst and was published in Philadelphia by J. B. Lippinc ott Company in 1934.
“This sale demonstrated, once again, that the rare book and manuscript market is thriving, and that African-Americana, Fine Bindings, Modern Literature, Photography, and other int erests are leading the way,” according to Chad Reingold, director of rare books.
For further information, visit www.potterauctions. com.
Pope Gregory I’s “Moralia sive exposito in Job,” estimated at $3,500 to $6,500, sold for $9,000.
The original Don Heck artwork introducing Tony Stark’s superhero persona, page one of “Tales of Suspense No. 39” from March 1963, set a new auction price record for original comic art, selling for $3,875,000.
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appear in the public marketplace. The one auctioned by Milestone flew past its
$4,000 to $6,000 estimate to land at $10,800. From another respected Japanese toymaker, Nomura, a boxed, alloriginal battery-operated
A Linemar (Japan) easel-back tin windup Mechanical Robot with working mechanism and original pictorial box sold for $3,480 against a $300 to $400 estimate.
A Yonezawa (Japan) battery-operated Directional Robot, 11 inches tall, all original with clean battery box and appearing never to have been played with, sold with original box, retaining correct inserts to secure and protect robot, for $2,952 against an estimate of $1,500 to $2,000.
The rare I.Y. (Japan) 15-inch tin friction “Harley-Davidson” motorcycle, all original and complete, with “Harley” and “Davidson” lithographed on respective sides of the tank, excellent condition, sold above high estimate for $4,440.
very early
Interplanetary Space Fighter was in excellent condition with a clean battery box and operated properly. Sizable at 12 inches long and accompanied by its original pictorial box, it sold for $5,781 against an estimate of $1,500 to $2,000.
Small but mighty, a Linemar (Japan) easel-back tin windup Mechanical Robot presented in outstanding condition with a working mechanism and its original pictorial box. Its $300 to $400 estimate was soon left in the dust, as the 6.5inch charmer rose to a final price of $3,480, more than eight times its presale estimate. Another popular entry, an 11-inch-tall Yonezawa (Japan) battery-operated Directional Robot was all original with a clean
A rare Marx (U.S.) prototype of one of their classic preWWII character toys, a tin windup Harold Lloyd, was hand-painted and all original, windup mechanism in working order, and it sold for $3,321 against an estimate of $1,000 to $2,000.
battery box and appeared never to have been played with. Its good-looking original box even retained the correct inserts to secure and protect the robot. It sold for $2,952, against an estimate of $1,500 to $2,000.
Coveted German toys of the pre-World War II era were well represented by a selection of 81 fine Lehmanns. Each was made in the early 20th century by the celebrated German toy manufacturer Ernst Paul Lehmann, whose creations were inspired by the vehicles, people and animals he encountered in everyday life or during his travels.
Three antique motorcycles led the Lehmann bike parade, marshaled by a 9-inch “Pilot” motorcycle, Model EPL 726, which was made in the second decade of the 20th century. All original with a working windup mechanism and assessed in VG-excellent condition, it surpassed its high estimate to sell for $8,400. A Lehmann tin windup “Lana” EPL 776 sedan with driver figure, in bright orange and Prussian
blue with red pinstriping, rolled into the gallery in all-original, excellent condition. Accompanied by its original Lehmann box and an instruction card printed in both German and English, the 7-inch-long auto sped to $6,150 against an estimate of $1,000 to $1,500.
A Lehmann “Mars Luna,” a lithographed-tin hot air balloon first produced in 1895, was all original and complete with its correct original pilot figure and tethering ropes with attached metal rings. A very hard-tofind toy in any condition, the auction example was graded excellent, which no doubt helped it to achieve $3,444 against its pre-sale estimate of $800 to $1,200.
At the forefront of the Japanese motorcycle section, a rare 15-inch tin friction “Harley-Davidson” from the manufacturer IY was all original and complete, with Harley and Davidson lithographed on respective sides of the tank. A beautifully-detailed driver was “accessorized” with a lithographed
visored helmet and buckled boots. In excellent condition, it easily exceeded its high estimate, reaching $4,440.
Those in the market for toy prototypes were in luck when a rare 10.5-inch-tall prototype of a classic preWWII Marx (USA) character toy, a tin windup Harold Lloyd, waddled across the auction block with a $1,000 to $2,000 estimate. The hand-painted depiction of one of the wealthiest and most popular movie stars of Hollywood’s golden era was all original with a working windup mechanism. It was bid to $3,321.
Additional installments of antique toys from the Dave Leitner collection will be featured in future Milestone sales. For more information, call Miles King at 440-527-8060 or email info@ milestoneauctions.com.
All prices quoted in the report are inclusive of buyer’s premium as outlined on Milestone Auctions’ website. All images provided by Milestone Auctions.
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Lehmann (Germany) “Mars Luna” lithographed tin hot air balloon, from a production run that ran from 18951935, is all original and complete including pilot figure and tether ropes with attached metal rings and sold for $3,444 against an estimate of $800 to $1,200.
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