KREINDLER SALE AUCTION ACTION

The 2014 New York Inc (NYInc) show featured sales starting on one Sunday and ending on the next Sunday. Several major auction companies participate in sales that are held daily in conjunction with the show. The Saturday, January 11, 2014 sale of the Herbert Kreindler Library contained six hundred well described lots, with some of them illustrated.

The photo accompanying this story shows David Fanning on the left and George Kolbe on the right. George is holding up the Kreindler catalog which was Public Auction and Mail Bid sale No. 132. The auctioneer for this sale was Harmer Johnson. There was a separate catalog for the Mail Bid portion of the Kreindler library. That sale was held by Kolbe & Fanning, along with, and in conjunction with Fritz Rudolf Kunker at a later date.

This Saturday sale though was one we would have loved to participate in. Because we were working at the show we could only look into the sale once in a while. The room was packed with just about every chair taken. The sale had some material we would have loved to get for our library but the prices were out of sight. We spoke with some friends who were active bidders at the sale. They said the estimates were surpassed on many of the lots. Some of our friends were even shut out, even though they had high bids for the material they wanted. After the sale we saw huge smiles on Mr. Kolbe, Fanning and Kreindler. We cannot wait to get the PRL for this sale. The Herbert Kreindler sale catalog will be a huge collectible and we are glad that we have a copy.

Wayne Homren, Editor

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