The cover of “The Small World of Antique Dolls’ Houses – Six Decades of Collecting Mansions, Cottages, Shops, Stables, Theaters, Churches – Even a Zoo!” by Flora Gill Jacobs.
CARVERSVILLE, Pa. – Noel Barrett Auctions has been awarded the right to sell the late Flora Gill Jacobs’ private collection of dollhouses and miniatures, including shops and miniature furnishings. The collection will be apportioned into 700 lots for an April 11-12, 2014 auction in New Hope, Pennsylvania, with Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers.
The sale of contents from Jacobs’ world-famous Washington Dolls’ House & Toy Museum in 2004 was a landmark event. The upcoming auction of the private collection Jacobs displayed in her home is expected to attract just as much attention. Most of the prized personal collection was featured in “The Small World of Antique Dolls’ Houses – Six Decades of Collecting,” one of five reference books she authored. Jacobs died on June 12, 2006 at the age of 87.
“It is a tremendous honor for us to be auctioning such an important collection. Mrs. Jacobs was an internationally respected authority on antique dollhouses and singlehandedly defined the hobby for two generations of collectors,” said Barrett.
Additional details will be available soon at Noel Barrett’s website: www.noelbarrett.com.
Contact Noel Barrett Auctions by calling 215-297-5109 or emailing toys@noelbarrett.com.
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The cover of “The Small World of Antique Dolls’ Houses – Six Decades of Collecting Mansions, Cottages, Shops, Stables, Theaters, Churches – Even a Zoo!” by Flora Gill Jacobs.
NEW YORK — The Guggenheim Museum will host the 2014 Guggenheim Young Collectors Party on Thursday, February 27 to benefit the Young Collectors Council (YCC). A 7:30 pm intimate dinner in the Wright restaurant will be followed by a celebration in the museum’s rotunda beginning at 9 p.m. Funds raised from the evening will benefit the Young Collectors Council Art Fund to help purchase new acquisitions of works by emerging artists for the museum’s collection. Major support of the 2014 Young Collectors Party is provided by David Yurman.
During the evening, guests will have an opportunity to view the current retrospective Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video. A presentation of Fragmented Body 1 (installation for a performance), 2013, conceived by artist Eva Kotátková (b. 1982, Prague) will be performed on the rotunda floor. DJ Chelsea Leyland will provide music for the event.
Chairs of the 2014 Young Collectors Party are Misha Nonoo and Alexander Gilkes, and Evan and Ku-Ling Yurman. YCC co-chairs are Noreen K. Ahmad, Astrid Hill Dattilo, Anne Huntington, and Dan Tanzilli. Guests will include artists whose work is represented in the Guggenheim collection, as well as members of the event host committee, including Sarah Arison, Lesley M.M. Blume, Susan Cernek, Adam Fields, Cary Fukunaga, Begum Yasar, and Tiffany Zabludowicz.
Guggenheim Young Collectors Council members receive priority access to purchase tickets. Tickets are $500 ($400 for YCC members) for the dinner and party, and $200 ($150 for YCC members) for the party. Tickets will be available to the public beginning January 23. For tickets and more information, visit www.guggenheim.org/yccparty.
About the YCC
The YCC is designed for young professionals, ages 21–40, interested in art and collecting. Members enjoy a dedicated calendar of events that includes private programs led by curators, invitations to exhibition opening receptions, day trips to nearby art destinations, and invitations to parties and other special events. An integral part of the YCC is the Acquisitions Committee, a unique opportunity for members to meet twice a year to vote on new art works to be added to the Guggenheim’s contemporary collection. Over the last 15 years the YCC has supported the acquisition of more than 120 works for the museum.
About the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Founded in 1937, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is dedicated to promoting the understanding and appreciation of art, primarily of the modern and contemporary periods, through exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications. The Guggenheim network that began in the 1970s when the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, was joined by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, has since expanded to include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which opened in 1997, and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, currently in development. Looking to the future, the Foundation continues to forge international collaborations that take contemporary art, architecture, and design beyond the walls of the museum. More information about the Foundation can be found at guggenheim.org.
Le Grand David Spectacular Magic Show. Image courtesy of Kaminski Auctions.
BEVERLY, Mass. – Kaminski Auctions will sell magic illusions and props, memorabilia, original artwork and several significant bronzes from the Le Grand David Spectacular Magic Show of Cabot Street Cinema Theatre fame. The auction will take place at the Cabot Street Cinema Theatre in Beverly on Sunday, Feb. 23, starting at 10 a.m. Eastern.
LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.
For over 35 years (February 1977 – May 2012), Marco the Magi’s production of Le Grand David and his own Spectacular Magic Company delighted audiences of all ages in downtown Beverly, becoming a New England institution. In 1999, the Guinness Book of World Records established that Beverly’s wonder-working troupe held the world record for the longest running stage magic production.
Le Grand David and his own Spectacular Magic Company has been called “the Greatest Magic Show of the last hundred years.” Featuring Marco the Magi, Le Grand David and a large performing ensemble, the production premiered on Feb. 20, 1977. Three years later they were featured in a two-page spread in Time magazine (5/12/80), which garnered them national and international recognition.
Bob Lund, founder of the American Museum of Magic in Marshall, Mich., visited the performance numerous times over the years and described the performance as “one of the great adventures of my life,” and wrote to Marco, “I tell everyone who takes the tour of the museum that if they want to see the finest magic show in the world today, they must travel to Beverly, to see Le Grand David.”
Over the years the awards and accolades were numerous, Marco was inducted by unanimous vote into the Society of American Magicians’ Magic Hall of Fame in Hollywood, Calif. The Le Grand David Spectacular Magic Company was also featured in National Geographic, The Christian Science Monitor and declared the “The Best Magic Show in the World” by Yankee Magazine.
Marco, David and Company performed six times at the White House Annual Easter Egg Roll for over 30,000 guests and were invited as special guests to entertain the families of the Washington D.C. diplomatic corps by First Lady Nancy Reagan at the White House Christmas party.
Fans, historians and collectors of magic history alike will want to bid on the exquisite original artwork, superbly decorated stage magic illusions and props, hand painted backdrops, and the many fantastic posters created for the production over the years. Featured in the sale are several bronzes created by David F. Bull (father of Le Grand David). The largest weighs over 500 pounds and depicts Marco the Magi suspending Le Grand David on the bristles of a broom while members of the cast look on in wonder.
For more information call Kaminski Auctions at 978-927-2223.
Bing tin wind-up Diamond T truck advertising Boston Store – State, Madison & Dearborn Sts. Est. $2,000-$3,000. Morphy Auctions image. DENVER, Pa. – Morphy Auctions’ first major toy sale of 2014, slated for Saturday, February 15, will feature more than 856 lots and dozens of collecting categories. The event will start at 9 a.m. Eastern Time, and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
The fun begins with a sci-fi offering of more than 250 robot and space-toy lots. Some of the highlights include Lot 5, a boxed X9 Space Robot Car, estimate $3,000-$4,500; Lot 47, a painted tin, crank-wind Astro Scout, $5,000-$7,000; and Lot 48, a scarce, boxed Television Robot, $15,000-$25,000. Lot 97, an X27 Explorer is expected to make $4,000-$6,000, as is Lot 162, a Change Man Robot. Lot 98, an unusual Pinocchio Spaziale, or “Space Pinocchio,” could reach $6,000-$9,000.
Next in line will be 250+ character and other tin toys. Many favorites from comic books and newspaper comic pages of the past will cross the auction block, including Lot 378, a Nifty Felix the Cat platform toy, $1,200-$1,800; Lot 394, a boxed Marx Popeye Baggage Express, $800-$1,200; and Lot 402, an ever-popular Hoge Popeye in Rowboat, $600-$1,200. Three items with a connection to the Man of Steel are: Lot 247, a Bandai friction Flying Spaceman Superman Cycle, $12,000-$18,000; Lot 419, a Superman Action Target Game, $800-$1,200; and Lot 421, a Superman Sirocco statue, $1,200-$1,800. A wonderful Steiff Mickey Mouse doll, entered as Lot 482, could charm a bid of $600-$1,200.
The sale continues with more than 100 mechanical and still banks, predominantly of cast iron. Key examples include Lot 550, a desirable Artillery Target Bank in near-mint condition, $18,000-$25,000; and several banks in near-mint-plus condition: Lot 552, a Patronize the Blind Man & Dog, $15,000-$25,000; Lot 556, an Artillery Bank, $8,000-$12,000; and Lot 563, a Pelican Bank, $8,000-$12,000. Lot 561, a near-mint Kyser & Rex Mammy with Spoon, tan-dress variation, could bring $18,000-$25,000; while Lot 576, a near-mint-plus Hen & Chick carries an $8,000-$12,000 estimate. Leading the group is Lot 553, a rare and coveted J. & E. Stevens Clown, Harlequin & Columbine bank, which is expected to venture well into six-figure territory, based on its estimate of $125,000-$175,000.
The banks will be followed by 100+ cast-iron toys and doorstops. Automotive toys will figure prominently, with such highlights as Lot 615, a Hubley Armored Motorcycle, $400-$800; and three Arcade toys: Lot 629, Tractor & Trailer, $800-$1,200; Lot 633, Industrial Derrick, $1,500-$2,500; and Lot 634, Tank, $400-$800. Lot 657, a Lammerts Moving Van, could deliver a winning bid of $1,000-$3,000; while Lot 666, a Dent American Oil Truck, might fetch $2,000-$4,000. Among the figural cast-iron doorstops, Lot 638, a design known as “Black Sambo,” has crossover appeal with collectors of black Americana. Its estimate is set at $1,800-$2,500.
A very nice selection of more than 50 die-cast toys includes a number of British-made Corgi favorites. They include: Lot 680, Transporter, $200-$400; Lot 681, Crane Truck, $200-$400; Lot 686, Beatles Submarine, $200-$400; and Lot 700, Corgi’s #21 Gift Set, $800-$1,200.
More than 30 lots of pressed-steel automotive toys include several classics from Buddy L, including Lot 740, an International Baggage Truck, $12,000-$16,000; and Lot 751, a Railway Express Truck, $800-$1,200. Lot 747, a store display for Banner pressed-steel trucks, carries a $1,000-$1,500 estimate.
The auction is rounded out by 100+ general toy lots. Highlights include Lot 773, a Gilbert James Bond display, $1,200-$1,800; Lot 775, a Japanese tin Harley-Davidson motorcycle, $1,200-$1,800; Lot 787, a Dooling Bros. gas-powered car, $600-$1,200; and Lot 847, an American Flyer Trolley Car. Those who favor European toys will find a plentiful assortment from which to choose, including Lot 790, a French JEP tin seaplane, $800-$1,200; Lot 802, a Carette tin boat, $1,200-$1,800; and Lot 811, a Lehmann Echo motorcycle, $1,000-$1,500.
For additional information on any item in Morphy’s Feb. 15, 2014 Toy Auction, call 717-335-3435 or email serena@morphyauctions.com. The sale will start at 9 a.m. Eastern Time.
Bing tin wind-up Diamond T truck advertising Boston Store – State, Madison & Dearborn Sts. Est. $2,000-$3,000. Morphy Auctions image.
Yonezawa (Japan) tin litho and painted tin crank-wind Astro Scout robot with original box. Est. $5,000-$7,000. Morphy Auctions image.
Bandai (Japan) tin friction Flying Spaceman Superman cycle with original box. Est. $12,000-$18,000. Morphy Auctions image.
Buddy L pressed steel International Baggage truck with extremely rare original box (not shown). Est. $12,000-$16,000. Morphy Auctions image.
J. & E. Stevens Blind Man and Dog cast-iron mechanical bank, patented 2/19/1878. One of the best of all known examples. Est. $15,000-$25,000. Morphy Auctions image.
J. & E. Stephens Clown, Harlequin & Columbine cast-iron mechanical bank, circa 1907, near-mint-plus condition. Est. $125,000-$175,000. Morphy Auctions image.
Artillery Target cast-iron mechanical bank with ammunition balls, manufacturer unknown, Samuel Clark design patented 3/20/1877. Est. $18,000-$25,000. Morphy Auctions image.
Marx tin litho wind-up Blondie’s Jalopy toy car with very scarce original box (not shown). Est. $1,200-$1,800. Morphy Auctions image.
Kanto (Japan) tin litho wind-up Television Robot with original box. Est. $15,000-$25,000. Morphy Auctions image.
Chinese ink and color on paper landscape painting by Huang Junbi (1898-1991). Estimate: $5,000-$6,000. I.M. Chait Gallery / Auctioneers image. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – I.M. Chait Gallery / Auctioneers will sell more than 400 lots in an Asian and international fine arts auction on Sunday, Jan. 26, beginning at 1 p.m. Pacific Time, 4 p.m. Eastern. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding
The auction will feature:
– A selection of rare, scholarly Chinese calligraphy scrolls from the Songwon Collection, the Young-Ig Min and Pyong-U Min family;
– Chinese and Moghul carved jades, including vessels, jeweled daggers and animals from Texas and Illinois collections;
– Buddhist sculpture and images, including Southeast Asia, China and Tibet, from San Diego and Laguna Beach, Calif., estates;
– Fine jadeite and other precious gemstone jewelry from a Beverly Hills collection;
– Antique netsuke, Japanese objects and fine snuff bottles from an Arizona collection;
– American and European paintings, graphics and art objects from a Malibu estate.
For details contact I.M. Chait Gallery / Auctioneers at 310-285-0182 or email chait@chait.com.
Podobed Aleksandr, ‘Gvadalahara, Simphony of Shnitke №4,’ 2010, oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm. Image courtesy of Erarta Galleries.
NEW YORK: Erarta Galleries New York is hosting an exhibition of contemporary Russian artworks in the spirit of Sochi Winter 2014 Olympic games. The “Olympic Selection” includes works by Aleksandr Korolev, Andrey Chezhin, Vladimir Aksenov, Anatoly Basin and Aleksandr Podobed. “Each provides an artistic, painterly tangent parallel to the energetic momentum of the Olympic games,” says a press release issued by the gallery.
This year the slogan for the Sochi Olympics is tailored to encompass the international spirit of the games. HOT. COOL. ERARTA ART. YOURS. showcases an alluring perspective of the artistic culture of contemporary Russia at a time of international exposure promoted by the Sochi Olympic Games.
Opening on February 5, 2014, two days before the torch-lighting ceremony, Erarta Galleries’ exhibition will celebrate with an event of Olympic-size creative energy, sponsored by Russian cultural affiliates. Gallery participants are invited to take part as spectators and judges. Visitors will be encouraged to award Bronze, Silver and Gold “medals” to Erarta’s Olympic paintings, ranking them similarly to the games taking place in Russia.
“The confluence of visual culture and Sochi Olympic momentum aims to invigorate and inspire New York with a fresh perspective of contemporary Russian culture,” says the gallery’s press release. “Sochi 2014 is the year for Russian Olympic events, and the year for contemporary Russian art to compete for and bring home the gold.”
Frederick Burnaby by Tissot, 1870 (chosen by Sir Max Hastings). Copyright National Portrait Gallery.
LONDON – Well-known figures will either draw or “write” portraits for the National Portrait Gallery as it hosts a gala fundraising event on Tuesday, Feb. 11, sponsored by the fashion designer Leon Max, it was announced today.
Those attending the ticketed black-tie event, announced today, include David Bailey, Olympic Gold medalist Katherine Grainger, Grayson Perry, Marc Quinn, Jane Asher, Gerald Scarfe and Jonathan Yeo.
Marina Warner, Hilary Mantel, Esther Freud, Joanna Trollope, Sir David Hare, Sir Michael Holroyd and Dame Jacqueline Wilson are among those who have created hand-written pen portraits for the gala.
Inspired by portraits in the gallery’s collection, pen portraits, offered at £500, have also been written by Ben Okri, Sir Max Hastings, A.S. Byatt, Amanda Foreman, Sarah Singleton and Sir Roy Strong.
Mantel has chosen a portrait of Thomas Cromwell revisiting the subject of her award-winning novel Wolf Hall while Hare has opted for Oscar Wilde, also the subject of one of his works.
Richard E Grant, Grace Coddington, Sir Paul Smith, Maggi Hambling, Gok Wan, John Swannell and Alex Katz are some of the artists who have contributed Mystery Portrait Postcards. A special display of over 200 postcards, each card on sale at £250 on a first-come, first-served basis at the gala, will then remain open at the gallery for two days from Feb. 12 for visitors to buy.
Funds raised by the gala will support the gallery’s daily work of delivering inspirational exhibitions and displays, offering unique learning opportunities and undertaking world class research. Some proceeds will go towards the gallery’s portrait fund which enables the gallery to acquire portraits of outstanding national importance for the collection
Gala guests will be able to bid in a live auction led by Sotheby’s Lord Dalmeny for auction lots that include the opportunity to have a head and shoulders portrait painted by Jonathan Yeo and Nicky Philipps or a group portrait by Peter Monkman, to purchase a study of Self by Marc Quinn, to co-curate the gallery’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2014 exhibition or to sponsor a conservation project.
A raffle will offer guests the chance to win one of 40 luxury prizes. These include a Giles Deacon dress, a Philip Treacy hat and a Stella McCartney hand-bag. Other items include two exclusive Race Club passes to the Revolution track cycling series from FACE Partnership, restaurant vouchers for Soho House, Sketch and the Portrait Restaurant and tickets for the Almeida, English National Ballet, The National Theatre, The Old Vic and Gate Theatre Notting Hill.
Pen Portraits:
Frederick Burnaby by James Jacques Tissot, 1870
Pen Portrait by Sir Max Hastings
John Donne by unknown English artist, c. 1595
Pen Portrait by A S Byatt
The Three Witches from Macbeth (Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne; Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; Anne Seymour Damer) by Daniel Gardner, 1775
Pen Portrait by Amanda Foreman
Adelina Patti by James Sant, exhibited 1886
Pen Portrait by Marina Warner
Beatrix Potter by Delmar Banner, 1938
Pen Portrait by Dame Jacqueline Wilson
Sir Henry Lee by Anthonis Mor, 1568
Pen Portrait by Sir Roy Strong
D H Lawrence by Nickolas Muray, 1923
Pen Portrait by Sarah Singleton
Charles Rennie Mackintosh by James Craig Annan, 1893
Pen Portrait by Esther Freud
Paule Vézelay, self-portrait, c.1927-29
Pen Portrait by Joanna Trollope
Oscar Wilde, probably by Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, spring 1900
Pen Portrait by Sir David Hare
Gwen John, self-portrait, c.1900
Pen Portrait by Sir Michael Holroyd
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, after Hans Holbein the Younger, early seventeenth century
Pen Portrait by Hilary Mantel
William Shakespeare, attributed to John Taylor c.1600s
Pen Portrait by Ben Okri
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Frederick Burnaby by Tissot, 1870 (chosen by Sir Max Hastings). Copyright National Portrait Gallery.
A tornado blew the roof off the former USO hall in 2013. Image by Woodlot. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) – The African American Military History Museum will re-open Feb. 6 nearly a year after a tornado cause substantial damage in the Hattiesburg area.
Museum general manager Latoya Norman told the Hattiesburg American that a Black History Month kick-off program honoring living World War II-era veterans will accompany the re-opening.
“We’ll be re-honoring World WII veterans. We honored them in 2010 and we decided to do it again,” Norman said.
Norman said museum officials decided to re-honor the World War II vets because of the building where the museum is housed.
“This building is a WWII-era building,” she said. “It’s a USO Club built for African American soldiers at Camp Shelby during World War II.”
The USO Club opened on March 22, 1942. It’s estimated tens of thousands of soldiers visited it during World War II.
It is the only surviving USO built exclusively for African American soldiers. In 2003, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The lobby of the USO Club was open for five hours in October during Hattiesburg’s Mobile Street Renaissance Festival, but the rest of the museum remained closed. Its theater and stage area, the archive room and about 25 percent of the main auditorium where the exhibits are kept was damaged when the tornado ripped away a portion of the building’s roof.
The storm caused about $450,000 in historic building damage and $600,000 in damage to the museum’s components, said Rick Taylor, executive director of Hattiesburg’s Convention and Tourism Commissions.
After the tornado, volunteers from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the University of Southern Mississippi and the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby helped remove documents, flags, medals, enlistment papers and other artifacts so they wouldn’t get wet from the rain.
Now, everything is being moved back into the museum. Experts with Southern Custom Exhibits of Anniston, Ala., are putting the cabinetry, dioramas, murals and exhibits back in place.
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A tornado blew the roof off the former USO hall in 2013. Image by Woodlot. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Mrs. J.J. ‘Molly’ Brown presenting an award to Capt. Arthur Henry Rostron, for his service in the rescue of the Titanic. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) – A small home that is a landmark in the northeast Missouri town of Hannibal is under new ownership.
The Quincy (Ill.) Herald-Whig reports that the Hannibal City Council on Tuesday approved an agreement with Lisa and Ken Marks of the Hannibal History Museum Foundation to operate the Molly Brown home.
Another couple, Vicki and Terrell Dempsey, donated the home to the city in 2007, but the small museum struggled to break even financially. The Hannibal Convention and Visitors Bureau has operated the home between Memorial Day and Labor Day each year. The attraction, childhood home of the Titanic’s legendary Molly Brown, draws about 1,500 visitors annually.
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Mrs. J.J. ‘Molly’ Brown presenting an award to Capt. Arthur Henry Rostron, for his service in the rescue of the Titanic. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Nazi defendants seated in the dock during the Nuremberg Trials include Hermann Göring (first row, far left), considered to be the most important surviving official in the Third Reich after Hitler’s death. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. BERLIN (AP) – In a typewritten affidavit, former Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess admitted that “victims were executed and exterminated there by gassing and burning.” In handwritten notes from the 1945 interrogation of Robert Ley, the Nazi official blames Germany for its own defeat, saying the country was “too lazy and too incompetent.”
The documents used by prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials to help convict top Nazis are among a trove of some 500 pages that surfaced last year at a flea market in Tel Aviv. About 20 pages went on display Wednesday at the Berlin Jewish Education Center, where they will be available for the public to see through Jan. 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day, before they are sold at auction in Israel.
The documents provide a window into how the prosecution team approached the ground-breaking war crimes trial.
Almost 70 years after the war, when most survivors of Nazi atrocities are now dead, Jewish Educational Center director Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal said it was important to put them on display.
“Such documents help people to understand, to learn and to remember,” he said.
The landmark Nuremberg trials began in November 1945 – the same year World War II ended – and established for the first time charges like “war crimes” in international law.
Of the 23 defendants, 12 were sentenced to death including Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler’s air force chief and top aide.
Ley committed suicide before the trial began. Auschwitz commandant Hoess was only called as a witness in Nuremberg but was later convicted and executed in Poland. Hitler’s similarly named deputy, Rudolf Hess, was sentenced to life in prison.
The trial files were collected by Isaac Stone, a historian and U.S. Army intelligence analyst who was assigned to gather documents for the Nuremberg prosecution team.
They fall into three general categories – English translations of original documents, photostatic copies of documents, and some original pages, including handwritten interrogation reports written by Stone, Reiss said.
Stone, who moved to Israel in 1970, gave some of his documents to a friend, whose widow donated them to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994. It is not clear how the newly found documents collected by Stone, who died in 1974 in Jerusalem, ended up at a flea market in 2013.
The documents have a presale estimate of $5,000 and $6,000.
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Nazi defendants seated in the dock during the Nuremberg Trials include Hermann Göring (first row, far left), considered to be the most important surviving official in the Third Reich after Hitler’s death. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
