Circa-1930 poster for a French drink that didn’t exist headlines Jan. 2 sale in New York

Circa-1930 vintage French poster for Fap’Anis, a liqueur that was initially fictional, estimated at $3,500-$4,000 at Jasper52.

NEW YORK – On Tuesday, January 2, starting at 6 pm Eastern time, Jasper52 will hold a sale titled The Artful Palette: Prints, Fine Art & More!, a 92-lot auction featuring just that – prints, fine art, and more. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

Leading the highlights is a circa-1930 French advertising poster that is as colorful and as alluring as it was the day it was printed. It touts Fap’Anis, a liqueur with a hint of anise that probably didn’t exist when the poster was plastered across the cityscape of Paris. The name of the artist is given as Delval, which turned out to be a collective of creatives who found it amusing to generate ads that gave them a means to mock the social classes and their foibles. But, according to the accepted backstory (which may or may not be true), Team Delval ultimately went looking for a distiller to make the drink a reality after the public failed to get the joke and persisted in asking where they could buy the bewitching beverage. The poster, which is a vintage original, carries an estimate of $3,500-$4,000.

Also featured is a circa-1920 Edward S. Curtis blue-toned gelatin silver print titled Aphrodite, or Floating Aphrodite. Better known for his epic work The North American Indian, which attempted to document the vanishing tribal communities of North America, Curtis (1868-1952) might have hit upon the idea for the Aphrodite image from his work with cyanotypes. The fast-developing medium was the Polaroid of its day, which Curtis used while out in the field to test the composition of a photograph before recording it on a more expensive form of film. The print has an estimate of $4,500-$5,500.

The final highlight is an oil on canvas by the American artist Ellen B. Farr (1840-1907). It shows the San Gabriel Mission in Pasadena, California, and dates to circa 1890, the year in which the widowed artist first traveled to the Golden State. The painting is estimated at $6,000-$7,000.

Circa-1930 vintage French poster for Fap’Anis, a liqueur that was initially fictional, estimated at $3,500-$4,000 at Jasper52.

Circa-1930 vintage French poster for Fap’Anis, a liqueur that was initially fictional, estimated at $3,500-$4,000 at Jasper52.

Edward S. Curtis, ‘Aphrodite,’ estimated at $4,500-$5,500 at Jasper52.

Edward S. Curtis, ‘Aphrodite,’ estimated at $4,500-$5,500 at Jasper52.

Ellen B. Farr, ‘Pasadena San Gabriel Mission,’ estimated at $6,000-$7,000 at Jasper52.

Ellen B. Farr, ‘Pasadena San Gabriel Mission,’ estimated at $6,000-$7,000 at Jasper52.

ACN Staff

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Micro-cars and a Messerschmitt roll into Auction Team Breker Sept. 16

1962 Heinkel Trojan 200 micro-car, estimated at €10,000-€12,000 at Auction Team Breker.

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COLOGNE, Germany — Antique calculating devices, photographic equipment, music boxes, Ford Model Ts and a trio of tiny automobiles lead the eclectic selection of items in the latest Auction Team Breker event, being held Saturday, September 16. Bidding is offered via LiveAuctioneers.

Comprising three collections, the 500-plus lot sale is classic Breker, featuring scientific wonders from days past. A Saxonia 3 calculator dating to 1910, designed using stepped-drum technology, sits atop the many scientific machines in the sale. Breker has placed a €4,000–€7,000 estimate on it. 

Certain to turn heads are three petite cars, all vintage, all scarce, and all deaccessed from a Swedish motorcycle and car museum. First among them is a 1955 Messerschmitt KR200 Cabrio Kabinenroller, estimated at €25,000-€30,000. Designed by Fritz Fend and manufactured at the Messerschmitt factory in Regensburg, Germany, this three-wheeled example is a two-tone export version model, in restored condition and new paint, fitted with a Fichtel & Sachs single-cylinder two-stroke engine. 

The two other micro-cars both date to 1962 and have red-painted chassis. The Heinkel Trojan 200 has an estimate of €10,000-€12,000, and the BMW Isetta 300 is estimated at €18,000-€20,000.

Vintage Fords comprise an important part of the sale, led by a 1909 Ford Model T Tourabout, a one-year-only model with a numbers-matching motor. It is estimated at €32,000-€45,000. In addition, the sale features a charming circa-1920 advertising poster picturing a fashionably dressed young woman behind the wheel below the phrase ‘Buy Your Wife a Ford.’ Its estimate is €800-€1,500.

Automatic music boxes are another significant section of the Breker auction. A circa-1898 Symphonion Pianophon 25 ¼in Duplex Disc Musical Box in excellent original condition with great sound is estimated at €30,000–€40,000.

The current rate of exchange is €1 = $1.08.

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Saxonia 3 calculator from 1910, estimated at €4,000-€7,000 at Auction Team Breker.
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1955 Messerschmitt KR200 Cabrio Kabinenroller, estimated at €25,000-€30,000 at Auction Team Breker.
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1962 Heinkel Trojan 200 micro-car, estimated at €10,000-€12,000 at Auction Team Breker.
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1962 BMW Isetta 300 micro-car, estimated at €18,000-€20,000 at Auction Team Breker.
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1909 Ford Model T Tourabout, estimated at €32,000-€45,000 at Auction Team Breker.
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Circa-1898 Symphonion Pianophon 25 ¼in Duplex Disc Musical Box, estimated at €30,000-€40,000 at Auction Team Breker.
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Circa-1920 ‘Buy Your Wife a Ford’ advertising poster, estimated at €800-€1,500 at Auction Team Breker.

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