Our Fall Online Auction
Presented by Ruggiero & Associates
October 27 – November 10, 2010
Join us for a Public Exhibition of all property offered for sale:
November 5, 6, and 7, from 9am to 4pm each day
or by appointment (We’ll pick you up at the Asheville Airport!)
At Fines Creek Farm in Western North Carolina (click for location)
Please contact us with questions:
828-627-3706
info@ruggiero-associates.com
We are delighted to present Our Fall Auction which includes an unusual mix of Estate Property and Property from Various Owners. The highlights include The Meinhardt Raabe “Wizard of Oz” Archive- Raabe was the Coroner of Muchkinland in the original 1939 production. For serious Wizard of Oz collectors, this is the find of a lifetime. Also, Chinese and Asian Art from the Estate of Cash W. Haggerty, Wake Forest, North Carolina, over 125 lots collected over a forty year period by the Haggertys as they traveled the globe together.“The Library”- over 100 lots of Early American history and travel, literature, first editions, and fine bindings. Part I from a Private Collection of Rustic Furniture, Decorations, Folk Art, and Country Furniture- over 125 lots of Old Hickory, Indiana Hickory, Southern Appalachian twig rockers, and numerous decorative items. With additional property from the Estate of Cecil I. Matheny of Knoxville, TN, and the Estate of Waldo L. Miner of Stonington, CT, including numerous lots of Tiffany & Co silver and jewelry; a large collection of Rose Medallion; a nice group of pre-Columbian pottery and Spanish Colonial paintings; American furniture; multiple silver objets de vertu; a D. Chiparus bronze; portrait miniatures; Warhol portfolios; prints by Okshteyn, Malevich, Chemiakin, and others; Oriental/Chinese rugs and carpets; and a collection of Chinese white jades.
For more information, please see our website: http://www.ruggiero-associates.com/goodstuffsells.html and contact us with any questions.
All in all, a great sale with some unusual objects! We hope you enjoy the auction.
Bob Ruggiero
Sale Code: R6RA
