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Auction 24.10.2001

Christie's, Los Angeles

Date of the auction: 24.10.2001

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Lot number 6
An unusual mid 19th-Century American dentist's portable extraction case
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US$1,500 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$1,175
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Lot number 7
A fine late 20th-Century limited edition phrenology head
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US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$176
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Lot number 8
"Bodyscope", an unusual educational anatomical medical folio
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US$600 - US$800
Price realised:
US$646
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Lot number 11
A late 19th/early 20th-Century single-bulb radiometer
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US$700 - US$900
Price realised:
US$764
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Lot number 12
An early 20th-Century German electrostatic machine set
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US$2,500 - US$3,500
Price realised:
US$2,820
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Lot number 14
Chemisch-Technische Untersuchungsmethoden
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US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$235
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Lot number 15
A most unusual 20th-century French hat-maker's head-measurer
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US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$705
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Lot number 16
A set of [?]18th-Century wooden Chinese printing blocks
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US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$352
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Lot number 20
A fine 19th-Century English brass postal scale
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US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$376
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Lot number 21
An early 20th-Century German film and slide projector
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US$1,200 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$940
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Lot number 22
A fine set of 18th-Century boxwood Napier's bones
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US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$3,760
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Lot number 31
An unusual model spirit fired steam crane
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US$400 - US$500
Price realised:
US$646
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Lot number 41
A remarkable collection of meteorites, from the Mbale shower of 14 August 1992
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US$60,000 - US$80,000
Price realised:
US$41,125
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Lot number 45
"STATHAM'S PANOPTICON"
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US$1,200 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,175
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Lot number 46
An early 20th-Century 3-inch lacquered-brass refracting telescope
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US$2,500 - US$3,500
Price realised:
US$2,350
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Lot number 52
A finely engineered 5in. gauge model of the 0-4-0 saddle dock tank No.4...
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US$3,500 - US$4,500
Price realised:
US$3,525
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Lot number 55
A very rare Hugh Powell brass compound microscope with the signature of...
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US$10,000 - US$13,000
Price realised:
US$9,400
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Lot number 57
An elegant early 19th-Century brass and ivory flea microscope
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US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$1,880
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Lot number 60
A late 19th-Century lacquered-brass compound monocular microscope
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US$350 - US$450
Price realised:
US$470
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Lot number 68
A 19th-Cenury lacquered-brass Gould-pattern botanist's microscope
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US$600 - US$800
Price realised:
US$588
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Lot number 69
An early 19th-Century brass and stained oak naturalist's botanical...
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US$9,000 - US$11,000
Price realised:
US$11,750
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Lot number 73
A well-engineered 2in. scale model of a Shand Mason twin cylinder horse...
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US$4,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$4,465
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Lot number 75
A finely engineered 1½ in. scale model of the Allchin single cylinder...
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US$5,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$5,288
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Lot number 80
A 19th-Century Indo-Persian Zodiacal astrolabe
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US$2,000 - US$2,500
Price realised:
US$1,998
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Lot number 83
A fine late 18th-century silver Butterfield-pattern compass sundial
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US$2,300 - US$2,500
Price realised:
US$2,585
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Lot number 84
An unusual 19th-Century Japanese brass triform netsuke
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US$1,000 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$2,820
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Lot number 86
A 19th-Century Japanese ivory netsuke compass
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US$1,200 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,410
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Lot number 92
A extremely fine late 18th-Century silver and ivory drawing set
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US$1,200 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$2,585
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Lot number 94
A fine late 19th-Century lacquered-brass and black enamelled theodolite
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US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$2,350
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Lot number 95
A fine and rare early 19th-Century lacquered-brass reflecting circle
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US$4,500 - US$5,500
Price realised:
US$9,400
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Lot number 96
A well-presented and detailed static display model of the frigate U.S.S...
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US$1,500 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$1,528
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Lot number 97
A fine model of the 1934 America's Cup yacht Rainbow
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US$1,500 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$1,528
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Lot number 98
A finely detailed static display model of the American steam tug "Mercury"
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US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$2,115
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Lot number 99
A sleekly presented static display model of the Gold Cup Competition...
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US$2,500 - US$3,500
Price realised:
US$2,820
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Lot number 102
An elegantly presented static display model of a single screw speedboat
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US$2,000 - US$2,500
Price realised:
US$2,115
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Lot number 107
An extremely fine exhibition standard model of the White Star Liner "Titanic"
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US$7,000 - US$9,000
Price realised:
US$17,625
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Lot number 108
An extremely fine 1:48 scale museum display quality model of the United...
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US$8,000 - US$12,000
Price realised:
US$7,638
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Lot number 116
A fine late 20th-Century gilt-brass armillary sphere
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US$25,000 - US$30,000
Price realised:
US$28,200
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Lot number 119
A large early 20th-Century Czech floor-standing armillary sphere
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US$1,800 - US$2,200
Price realised:
US$8,225
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Lot number 120
A fine 19th-Century German paper and card planisphere
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US$1,500 - US$2,000
Price realised:
US$1,645
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Lot number 121
A fine and unusual late 19th-Century Dutch brass orrery
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US$7,000 - US$9,000
Price realised:
US$15,275
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Lot number 123
A late 19th-Century 6-inch diameter brass Islamic celestial globe
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US$1,200 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,880
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Lot number 124
A 19th-Century Islamic brass astronomical/astrological armillary
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US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$1,292
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Lot number 126
A fine late 19th-Century german tellurium
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US$4,500 - US$5,500
Price realised:
US$4,700
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Lot number 127
An extremely rare and finely constructed late 19th-Century German orrery
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US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$35,250
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Lot number 128
A rare early 19th-Century 3-inch diameter English terrestrial pocket globe
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US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$3,290
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