lot 29: Photos & Clips of "30 Inch" Firefighter Vance Swift, at Clarke
In summer the auction biz lightens up a bit. The big guys offer their "house" sales where they sell less important stock. It's Christie's, Sotheby's and Doyle's version of a stoop sale, if you can get your head around that. The city is empty and there's less competition, so if you drop in a place like Tepper Galleries, the bidding will be less intense and there will be some nice deals.
Collections that don't fit into the traditional categories are popping up. In August, Doyle is offering the contents of safe deposit boxes. And this weekend Clarke (C&C) is auctioning a firehouse collection. It's the massive contents of three 19th century firehouses which had been consolidated into the leaky storage room of a 1970's firehouse. Clarke has moved their usual Monday night auction to Sunday night to accommodate firefighting buffs. The firehouse auctions starts at 4 pm; the regular lots at 6 pm. There's a lot of cool history there – check it out.
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