Sotheby auction items from Schmid collection

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Re: Sotheby auction items from Schmid collection

Post by John Townsend » Mon Jun 13, 2016 3:49 pm

Christopher, you seem to have found the results on the website. If no price is given, it should mean the lot was unsold, probably because the reserve was not reached.

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Re: Sotheby auction items from Schmid collection

Post by MJMcCready » Mon Jun 13, 2016 5:43 pm

There's a lot of people with a lot of money around but that said I can't say I'm too surprised if they went unsold.

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Re: Sotheby auction items from Schmid collection

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Mon Jun 13, 2016 5:50 pm

It was the first four that went unsold (or failed to reach reserve).
£30,000 to £50,000 for a carved piece of rock crystal (the most expensive).
£98,000 if those four had made the upper end of their estimates.

The last five lots all sold for a combined total of just under £20,000. So not too bad.

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Re: Sotheby auction items from Schmid collection

Post by Neil Graham » Tue Jun 14, 2016 12:43 am

I must have missed the chess auction - I was busy buying a Dalek at a local auction :D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-de ... e-36468681

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Re: Sotheby auction items from Schmid collection

Post by MJMcCready » Tue Jun 14, 2016 7:29 am

First four items still up for grabs if you have a spare 98,000 floating about.

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Re: Sotheby auction items from Schmid collection

Post by Peter D Williams » Tue Jun 14, 2016 3:49 pm

Afternoon all

I was hoping all my chess friends on here would club together and buy me these :wink:

Well at least the rain is helping my runner beans grow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ihaOLOt29U
when you are successful many losers bark at you.

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Re: Sotheby auction items from Schmid collection

Post by John McKenna » Tue Jun 14, 2016 4:26 pm

I prefer this -

... I'm just sitting watching flowers in the rain
Feel the power of the rain making the garden grow,
I'm just sitting watching flowers in the rain
Feel the power of the rain keeping me cool.

So I lay upon my side with all the windows opened wide
Couldn't pressurize my head from speaking
Hoping not to make a sound I pushed my bed into the grounds
In time to catch the sight that I was seeking.

I'm just sitting watching flowers in the rain
Feel the power of the rain making the garden grow,
I'm just sitting watching flowers in the rain
Feel the power of the rain keeping me cool.

If this perfect pleasure has the key
Then this is how it has to be
If my pillow's getting wet
I don't see that it matters much to me...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQOc_hgpyPE

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Re: Sotheby auction items from Schmid collection

Post by John Clarke » Thu Jun 16, 2016 12:33 am

Yay! A fellow Move fan.
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)

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Re: Sotheby auction items from Schmid collection

Post by MJMcCready » Thu Jun 16, 2016 12:45 pm

Video looks older than those chess pieces.