Warner Dailey’s exquisitely eccentric collection graces Sworders Feb. 22

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STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, U.K. — Items from the remarkable collection of Warner Dailey will be auctioned this month. Some 300 lots from the home of the Anglo-American art and antiques dealer will be sold in a single-owner sale at Sworders on Thursday, February 22. The catalog is now available for bidding at LiveAuctioneers.

For Warner Dailey, the collecting habit began young. An only child born in New Jersey in 1945, he was trading badges in preschool before graduating to stamps and shells. After moving to London with $1,000 and a promise of a job on the front counter at Christie’s in 1968, he spent the 1970s and 1980s working as a ‘runner,’ driving a Mercedes-Benz station wagon around the South of England, filling it with objects that ranged from the best in Russian objects d’art to the weird and wonderful. His clients included the American publishing magnate and Fabergé fanatic Malcolm Forbes, who paid him a retainer to find items for him.

Having bought and sold an estimated 100,000 objects in his career, Dailey’s home in southeast London groans under the weight of pictures, natural history specimens, tribal art, exotic textiles, and objects that just demand to be picked up and studied.

“Collecting has been almost everything in my life. It is a constant stimulation that you can’t get from anything else. What I value most is the gathering, the learning, and the experience of what these objects give you.” The three words he uses to describe the collection are “historic, eclectic, and unusual.”

Estimates at Sworders’ sale range from £300-£400 ($380-$505) for an early 19th-century iron anti-slavery tobacco box retaining its original white-on-green paintwork to £16,000-£20,000 ($20,255-$25,320) for a fine pair of silver-mounted 16-bore flintlock holster pistols engraved with the mermaid crest of Lord Byron’s father.

Dailey has a deep emotional connection to objects that come with a narrative — a story about ownership, an individual, or a culture. Throughout his career he kept careful notes regarding his purchases to ensure the details were not lost. A straw work box in the form of a book (estimate £800-£1,200, or $1,010-$1,520) tells the story of the early 19th-century French prisoner-of-war who made it, but also its more recent ownership history in the collection of John Paul Getty Jr. The box, given by Getty to the heiress and fashion model Nicky Samuel during London’s Swinging Sixties, entered Dailey’s collection on October 20, 2014.

Among his personal favorites is a small leather bag that holds several objects including rings, bracelets, a tooth filling, and a label recording the items were found in the stomach of a man-eating crocodile shot in the Ganges in 1915. Formerly in the collection of Jan and Craig Finch, it has an estimate of £700-£900 ($885-$1,140).

Dailey’s love of objects suited to the kuntskammer or the Indian souk was inspired by a childhood visit to the home of a retired sea captain on Long Island. “There were all these wonderful things, from the jaw of a sperm whale to a Maori tattooed head, and I thought, one day, I want to have a house and collection like this,” he said, recalling.

One of several maritime lots in the sale are the seaman’s papers of Charles Green (1888-1974) documenting his life at sea, including two years with Shackleton in Antarctica as part of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914-16. Green was the ship’s cook and was among the men who remained on Elephant Island when Shackleton and five crew members sailed to a whaling station in South Georgia, returning to save everyone three months later. Acquired from dealer Laurence Langford, it is estimated at £400-£600 ($505-$760).

Bearing an estimate of £1,000-£1,500 ($1,265-$1,900) is a Victorian oak and gunmetal walking stick engraved to the knob with a view of ships at sea and to the collar with the inscription Mary Rose Sunk 1545 Raised 1840. It was probably made from materials salvaged from the wreck of Henry VIII’s flagship by Charles and John Deane. Contracted to remove wrecks from the Solent by the Admiralty, they developed the first practical diving suit in 1837 with the assistance of Augustus Siebe.
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Early 19th-century iron anti-slavery tobacco box retaining its original white-on-green paintwork, estimated at £300-£400 ($380-$505) at Sworders.
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Pair of silver-mounted 16-bore flintlock holster pistols engraved with the mermaid crest of Lord Byron’s father, estimated at £16,000-£20,000 ($20,255-$25,320) at Sworders.
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Papers of Charles Green documenting his life at sea, including two years with Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, estimated at £400-£600 ($505-$760) at Sworders.
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French prisoner-of-war straw work box in the form of a book set with a watercolor view of Beaufort Castle, estimated at £800-£1,200 ($1,010-$1,520) at Sworders.
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Leather bag holding items found in the stomach of a man-eating crocodile shot in the Ganges in 1915, estimated at £700-£900 ($885-$1,140) at Sworders.
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Victorian oak and gunmetal walking stick made with material salvaged from the Mary Rose in 1840, estimated at £1,000-£1,500 ($1,265-$1,900) at Sworders.
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Early Steiff Peter Rabbit toy hopped away with almost $12K at Cottone

Circa-1910 Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit stuffed animal by Steiff, with a metal Steiff button in one ear, which sold for $9,500 ($11,875 with buyer’s premium) at Cottone.

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GENESEO, N.Y. – The January 24 sale at Cottone Auctions was eclectic in the best possible way, posting healthy numbers for lots from several different categories of collecting. Complete results are available at LiveAuctioneers.

The overall top lot was a circa-1905 Tiffany Studios 10-light Lily lamp in favrile glass and bronze, retaining its original patina, which sold for $23,000 ($28,750 with buyer’s premium). But hopping away with a lot of attention and a sum far above its $700-$1,000 estimate was a circa-1910 Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit stuffed animal, made by the venerable German toy firm Steiff. Created sometime within the decade following the first appearance of the beloved children’s book by British author Beatrix Potter, the rabbit, described as ‘rare’, sported red slippers, an aqua blue coat with yellow stitched details, and the all-important metal Steiff button in its right ear. The Steiff Peter Rabbit secured $9,500 ($11,875 with buyer’s premium).

Another lot that flew far past its estimate was a group of four Wiigwaasabak, or birch bark scrolls, created by the Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) tribal community circa 1900. The scrolls, written in the tribe’s ideographic language with a stylus, were evidently uninterpreted, but could hold information about Anishinaabe history, customs, rituals, song lyrics, or even recipes. Estimated at $500-$800, the foursome brought $7,500 ($9,375 with buyer’s premium).

Further testifying to the breadth of the sale lineup were several lots of Daum Nancy cameo glass miniatures, with the highest performer among them being a trio dating to the early 20th century that took the forms of a delicate cup painted with leaves and purple blooms, a yellow-ground vase with a long neck decorated with red flowers, and a pitcher-like vessel with a spherical stopper. Together, they realized $6,000 ($7,500 with buyer’s premium) against an estimate of $400-$600. And a stoneware jug from 1806, featuring an incised cobalt design and credited to potters Thomas Warne and Joshua Letts of South Amboy, New Jersey, estimated at $500-$800, earned $5,250 ($6,562 with buyer’s premium).

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Detail of the circa-1910 Peter Rabbit stuffed animal by Steiff, showing the metal Steiff button in its ear. It sold for $9,500 ($11,875 with buyer’s premium) at Cottone.
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Circa-1905 Tiffany Studios 10-light Lily lamp, estimated at $10,000-$15,000, which which sold for $23,000 ($28,750 with buyer’s premium) at Cottone.
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Detail from a set of four circa-1900 birch bark scrolls by the Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) Native American people, which sold for $7,500 ($9,375 with buyer’s premium) at Cottone.
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Trio of Daum Nancy miniature cameo glass cabinet pieces, which sold for $6,000 ($7,500 with buyer’s premium) at Cottone.
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1806 Warne and Letts stoneware jug, which sold for $5,250 ($6,562 with buyer’s premium) at Cottone.
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Edwin Dawes lifetime collection of magic memorabilia to appear at Potter and Potter Feb. 24

Adelaide Herrmann and Company, The Flight of the Favorite, which sold for $48,000 ($57,600 with buyer’s premium) at Potter & Potter.

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CHICAGO —  Edwin A. Dawes (1925-2023) was a noted English biochemist who spent his career at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom, where he founded its department of biochemistry. But in his after hours, Dawes and his wife Amy were avid magicians, performing as Professor Bluffman and Madame Patrice. Dawes was also a prolific writer on the history of magic, authoring the authoritative works Great Illusionists and The Encyclopedia of Magic.

Amy predeceased Edwin in 2014, and now, with his passing at age 97, the first sale of his lifetime collection comes to market at Potter & Potter, with 448 lots crossing the block on Saturday, February 24. The catalog is now available for bidding at LiveAuctioneers.

According to Gabe Fajuri, president at Potter & Potter Auctions, “There is no one in the magic collecting community whose name, accomplishments, and reputation commands more respect than Eddie Dawes. Perhaps more than anyone in the twentieth century, he has contributed to a wider scholarly knowledge of magic history through his writing and scholarship. I’m honored — thrilled, actually — to offer rarities from his collection at Potter & Potter. This is the first of several sales we will conduct from Eddie’s archives, and therefore the tip of the proverbial iceberg.”

Two lots share the top estimate of $10,000-$15,000. The first is a book printed in 1663 London and represents the sixth edition ‘with many additions.’ Hocus Pocus Junior. The Anatomy of Legerdemain. Or, The Art of Juggling set forth in proper Colours features 32 unnumbered leaves, a woodcut frontispiece, and woodcuts in the text. This is only one of two known examples of this exact edition. Dr. Dawes purchased it at a Sotheby’s auction in 1979.

Known as the ‘Queen of Magic,’ Adelaide Herrmann (1853-1932) began her career as the performing assistant to her husband, Alexander (1834-1896), popularly known as ‘Professor Herrmann’ or ‘Herrmann the Great.’ When he passed unexpectedly, Adelaide continued the act and performed into her seventies, finally retiring in 1928. This stone-lithograph poster dating to circa 1905 shows her solo act, billed then as The Flight of the Favorite. In this illusion, a Geisha character in one cabinet vanishes, only to reappear in a similar box some distance away. According to Potter & Potter’s experts, this is the only known example of this poster. It, too, is estimated at $10,000-$15,000.

American William Ellsworth Robinson (1861-1918) spent his entire magic career performing as Chung Ling Soo, Chinese Conjurer. He met an untimely demise as part of a bullet-catch trick that went awry. Chung Ling Soo. Chinese Conjurer is a circa-1910 three-sheet stone-litho poster from his heyday and is the first such example ever handled or seen by Potter & Potter’s magic experts. It carries an estimate of $8,000-$12,000.

One of the earliest works in English on magic tricks, the copy of  The Discovery of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot (1538-1599) that appears in the sale was printed in London in 1665 as a third edition. It has an estimate of $7,000-$9,000. And an autographed headshot of Harry Houdini (Erik Weisz, 1874-1926) brings up the spirit of the late conjurer for an affordable $1,500-$2,500.
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‘Hocus Pocus Junior. The Anatomy of Legerdemain,’ estimated at $10,000-$15,000 at Potter & Potter.
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Adelaide Herrmann, ‘The Flight of the Favorite’ poster, estimated at $10,000-$15,000 at Potter & Potter.
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William E. Robinson, ‘Chung Ling Soo. Chinese Conjurer’ poster, estimated at $8,000-$12,000 at Potter & Potter.
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Reginald Scot, ‘The Discovery of Witchcraft,’ estimated at $7,000-$9,000 at Potter & Potter.
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Signed portrait of Harry Houdini, estimated at $1,500-$2,500 at Potter & Potter.
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Paloma Picasso creates jewelry that has sparkle and substance

A bicolor gold and diamond bangle bracelet set with a large aquamarine, designed by Paloma Picasso for Tiffany & Co., achieved $30,000 plus the buyer’s premium in May 2023. Image courtesy of Hindman and LiveAuctioneers.

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A bicolor gold and diamond bangle bracelet set with a large aquamarine, designed by Paloma Picasso for Tiffany & Co., achieved $30,000 plus the buyer’s premium in May 2023. Image courtesy of Hindman and LiveAuctioneers.
A bicolor gold and diamond bangle bracelet set with a large aquamarine, designed by Paloma Picasso for Tiffany & Co., achieved $30,000 plus the buyer’s premium in May 2023. Image courtesy of Hindman and LiveAuctioneers.

NEW YORK – Once upon a time, not that long ago, men were the purchasers of most women’s jewelry, which they gave as gifts to the women they loved. As social mores and fashions have evolved, that has changed. By the 1960s, propelled by the feminist revolution, women began buying their own jewelry as well as making it. Independent-minded women with sophisticated tastes actively sought out women-designed jewelry, and Paloma Picasso, Marina Bulgari, Suzanne Belperron, and Elsa Peretti were among the women who made jewelry for them. Paloma Picasso (b. 1949-) remains a standout among her peers. To reach the upper echelon of the industry, as she did, took aplomb and talent. “Women might have been thought of as fashion jewelers, but when you got into the highest level of jewelry manufacturing and designing, she really broke into that, and that’s really important,” said Dianne Batista, director of jewelry and watches and senior specialist at Rago Arts and Auction Center in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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