Just watched the Cowan auction. The winning bid was 13000, 15990 all in. That was a higher than 20 percent premium that they charge, so it must have come from Proxibid or someone outside. Don't really know why someone does that instead of placing a proxy direct with the auction house. Anyway, prices were really strong overall. Most Parkers were about what you would expect. One del Greco-Roman BHE went for 4800 all in, and reproductions were pretty reasonable, but overall the prices were really strong. Seemed like a huge demand for old stuff and much European. Things like muskets, pepperboxes, derringers, flintlock were very often tripling the high estimate, before premium.
Knives tanked, for what it's worth.
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