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Past Sale Results for January 26 & 27, 2007 Highlights of the 2007 Winter Glass and Lighting Auction Scroll down for photos and descriptions of highlighted pieces from this auction. Available for download are the Catalog Listing, Addendum and Prices Realized. The galleries at Green Valley were vibrant once again as the firm hosted its annual winter glass auction on January 26 and 27. The sale featured a wide variety of styles, forms, and colors and drew bidders from 33 states, as well as Canada. Company president Jeffrey S. Evans reported that interest in the auction was strong - his staff processed over 1,970 absentee bids and handled more than 125 telephone bids for the two-day event which grossed $317,387. Over 3,500 pieces were sold in 1,798 lots over three cataloged sessions, at an impressive average rate of 165 lots per hour! The brightly colored lots included the collection of Mike Nigro, Nyack, NY; the EAPG & Historical collection of Nila & Ray Myers, McKeesport, PA; the collection of various Daisy & Button patterns of John Graff, St. Thomas, PA; the milk glass collection of Dr. Larry McCallister, Muncie, IN; a New York estate collection; in addition to other collections from across North America. The two sessions held on Friday at 9:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. were comprised of opaque glass, historical glass, novelties and children's glass, EAPG, collections of McKee's Rock Crystal and Cobalt elegant glass, and finally, Fenton, L. G. Wright and other 20th century glass. Commenting on some of the various categories, Evans stated, "Although the market for opaque glass has been very soft over the past several years, the category drew a lot of interest and sold well overall which is encouraging, the Rock Crystal brought solid prices, and Vaseline glass and Cobalt elegant glass both continue to achieve strong prices." The EAPG highlight was an Ellrose true open compote in a previously unrecorded color combination of amber staining on Vaseline, which sold for $1,760 against a pre-auction estimate of $300-$500 (all sale prices include a 10% buyer's premium), and in the Cobalt elegant glass category, a $100-$150 pre-auction estimate quickly went up in smoke when a Cambridge nude stem cigarette box with lid sold for $523. Saturday's session began promptly at 9:30 a.m. with a collection of Victorian glass headed off by seventeen lots of Greentown Holly Amber in Golden Agate, made by the Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Co. between 1892-1903. The first three lots in this category performed especially well, starting with a seven-piece water set that brought $5,500, followed by a 9" tall whimsy/shelf support made from two compote bases which significantly surpassed its $1,000-$1,500 estimate to end at $8,250, and a syrup jug which brought $3,850 despite a repaired lid and the loss of three beads on its handle. After the sale Evans noted, "Holly Amber, and Greentown glass in general, continue to break previous records. Members of the National Greentown Glass Association were in attendance with their most recent publication for sale in the lobby, Greentown Glass ¯ A Collector's Guide, which was well-received by the auction-goers. I attribute much of the strength of the Greentown market to this 2005 publication from the NGGA." The rest of Saturday's session included art glass, Victorian lighting, shakers, syrups and other condiment containers, and opalescent glass featuring water pitchers. According to Evans, the better art glass was extremely strong, with two notable lots being a 7 3/4" high Webb Peach Blow vase with polychrome leaf and acorn decoration which saw $1,870 and a Mt. Washington Crown Milano marmalade or sweetmeat with silver-plated mounts - the ornamentation of this piece no doubt contributed to its appeal - decorated with gilt starfish and set with colored stone "jewels" which were all still intact, the piece nearly doubled its high estimate when it sold for $1,595. Of the more than 200 lots of shakers, syrups and other condiment containers in the sale, top lots were a Northwood Daffodil sugar shaker in blue opalescent which brought $3,850 (this was one of only two recorded in this form - the other being sold by Green Valley in 2003), and a lot of two Mt. Washington Bark texture salt shakers in rose to colorless and pale blue to colorless with polychrome and gilt decoration which soared past the $150-$250 estimate to sell for $1,155. As with Green Valley's 2006 winter glass auction, one of this year's biggest draws was again a fine collection of opalescent water pitchers, this time from Mike Nigro of Nyack, NY. Two cranberry opalescent water pitchers which each brought $4,400 were a 9" tall Northwood Co./Dugan Glass Co. ribbed Christmas Snowflake, and an 8 1/4" high Stars and Stripes pattern which was first produced by Hobbs, Brockunier & Co. of Wheeling, WV. Two other top selling water pitchers were a cranberry opalescent 8 3/4" tall Criss-Cross made by the Consolidated Lamp & Glass Co. which brought $3,850 and a 10" high Vaseline opalescent Jefferson Glass Co. Swirling Maze with ruffled rim which sold for $3,410. Each of these four lots easily bested its $2,000-$3,000 pre-auction estimate. Reflecting on the sale of the water pitchers, Evans acknowledged, "Cranberry water pitchers seem to have cooled off a bit with overall prices dropping roughly 25% from previous sales; the prices are actually now back in line with where they should be, the market was seriously overheated," then he quickly added, "But Vaseline glass is still hot!" After the sale Evans noted, "Sugar shakers continue to be the most hotly contested Victorian form although the collection of 1,500+ salt shakers drew tremendous interest and many of the prices really surprised us. Another very competitive category was anything by the Mt. Washington Glass Co. I attribute this strong market to the recently published Mt. Washington and Pairpoint Glass by the late Ken Wilson, which is an exceptional volume that no glass library should be without." Green Valley's next cataloged glass auction will be held on May 18 and 19 and will feature blown and pressed glass of the 18th and 19th centuries including many extreme rarities in virtually every category. Call (540) 434-4260 or visit www.greenvalleyauctions.com for more information.
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