[intro] All Prices with Premium[/intro]
Lot 506 Anna Atkins Polypodium Dryopteris bags $13,750, a healthy margin on the $8k est.
Lot 516 Edward Weston Johnny, 1944 is first to make strong showing with $23,750 paid as premium price against $7k est.
Lot 521 Alexander Gardner Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the War goes for $92,500 against the $60k high est.
Lot 523 Marcus Aurelius Root Albert Pritchard Root Asleep By the Flag shoots up to $74,500, well above the $25k est.
Lot 529 Irving Penn Cigarette No. 86 Est’d at $18k, sells for $37,500
Lot 531 Moholy-Nagy goes way low for $47,500 against $60k low est.
Lots 532/533 Two William Henry Fox Talbot collections of prints. Each est’d at $8k. First one, The Pencil of Nature goes for $30,000; second one, Sun Pictures in Scotland, makes $62,500
Lot 534 Marcus Aurelius Root Anthony Pritchard explodes above the $30k est. to $350,500
Lot 535 Mathew Brady Samuel Morse was est’d at $9k but makes $37.5k
Lot 538 Victor Prevost Columbia College also gets a big boost over the est range selling fo $23,750 despite a low four-figure est.
Lot 547 Copy of Camera Work, Edited by Steichen sells low at $80,500 against $90k low est.
Lot 550 Frederick and William Langeheim Cast Iron Lighthouse under Construction $20k against $7k high est.
Lot 560 Baron de Meyer Water Lilies goes low for $25k against $30k low est. Various owners sale has platinum print of same image.
Lot 562 Moholy-Nagy Second picture sells below the low est. at $27,500 against $40k. est.
Lot 580 Dorothea Lange Destitute Pea Pickers makes $86,500 over the $60k high est.
Lot 585 Atget St. Cloud squeaks by low est. but only with help of the premium. $56,250
Lot 594 Edward Weston Potato Cellar Lake Tahoe, 1937 $22,500, a few grand above the $15k high est.
Lot 598 Irving Penn Chimney Sweep, London, 1950 Penn, again! $74,500 against a $15,000 est.
Lot 609 Heinrich Kuehn gets over the $60k est. with an $86,500 sale.
Lot 618 Creepy Joel-Peter Witkin picture of split head entwined with itself Le Baiser is bid to $50k against $12k est.
