Auction Action in Peterborough, N.H.
Auction Action in Peterborough, N.H.
P.R. Goodwin Sporting Painting
Establishes Record At Cobbâs
COBBâs
Set cutline 2c and 3cut
Clients look over the Phillip Russell Goodwin sporting painting, âUnexpected Game,â with Sarge Collier, center, Cobbâs sporting specialist. The painting established a record price paid at auction when it sold to the National Museum of American Illustration for $143,750.
The fly fishing book sold for $747. Several pages in the book had actual feathers and fly tying materials.
A large selection of fly rods were available and prices ranged from $125 to $500 paid for an Orvis bamboo âFleaâ rod.
Auctioneer Charles Cobb chats with a client prior to the auction.
The trout painting sold at $2,990.
The big horn sheep mounted by James Clark sold at $3,220.
The Lassell Ripley watercolor depicting former New Jersey Governor Walter Edge hunting bobwhite quail, circa 1939, sold at $20,700.
Auctioneer Charlie Cobb accepts the final phone bid on the Goodwin painting.
The Derrydale Press leatherbound Wild Fowl Decoys book by Joel Barber sold at $1,840.