Porsche Automobilia

[typ901]

Interesting sale, prices not that high, but wonder if the really rare pieces won’t be in their Part II sale:
https://rmsothebys.com/en/home/lots/k120

dirt cheap is more like it. '56 Strenger water color sans impression under 2 large ? yipes ! the '82 Monterey lot included an ultra rare Mathe signed serigraph. of the 37 pulled he only signed about 2 dozen.

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/k...he-1982/918661

[rower]

Part 2 is online and can be viewed

Pretty weak auction.

I wonder if those dealer signs are authentic.

[Milou]

You mean the ceramic crests? Not the dealers sign people want, it's the illuminated plastic ones that are the coolest in my opinion or the early metal ones.

[StephenAcworth]

I thought the descriptions of the lots were pretty shallow with not a whole lot of detail. And maybe it’s a sign of how the market is just now. Unless I needed to sell, maybe hold off?

[88cs]

I've been wondering for maybe the last two years....................is our hobby dying?

The descriptions were very poor, I think, but people who know what is what know what is being sold. Maybe they sat out. Terrible prices from a seller's point of view. I sold my father in law's estate 40's/50's/60's/ photos of hollywood stars long gone and forgotten, and the auction house I used did a far better job of describing what was being sold than was done here.

But, LA Literature show, I sold almost nothing this year, after having sold next to nothing last year. This year was a little odd, it was at the beginning of the Corona Virus awareness, and a lot of buyers who were normally there were not.

Just for fun, I put price tags of $50 on a real 73 RS service info English language, and a 918 all markets English language service info, the latter may be the only one. I was going to say, oops, wrong price if anyone noticed, but no one did, the whole show. Where were the buyers who would have caught that? I did watch out for TYP901, he never came by:-)

[Milou]

Not sure if the market’s decline of Porsche automobilia is because hoarders are keeping all the very good stuff (the market needs “interesting and rare” items to act as market locomotives), or interest has declined.

Since I sold my automobilia collection, I thought it would encourage good things to come to the market but it didn’t. I actually saw less and less rare items offered on the market....

[preS]

All the items I liked sold for high prices (like the 1965 911 poster, the 901 information #1073/74) or prices I would be happy with to sell for (a not correct? B toolkit for$2100).

Richard

[Milou]

Here is a dealership sign I kept of old time sake:

[Lorenzo]

RM Sotheby's automobilia auction part 1: I think some items were cheap but some not, agree that many descriptions were poor. I bought a few (cheap) items and found that, for a european based buyer, this auction is not a bargain at all. Unlike german automobilia auction houses which ship the items at convenient rates, Rm Sotheby's does not handle packaging and shipping, the quote I got from UPS is scaring (more than 35% the price of the items I bought). Then I'll have to pay import taxes of 22% on the total (items and shipping cost).
So my cheap items will become normal or expensive, and I'm not willing to bid during auction part 2!

[StephenAcworth]

That's always a serious consideration - thanks for the heads up... UPS and FEDEX always v. expensive and then they have customs/duty handling charges, then the taxes... often costs more than the item itself (ask me how I learned that one...)

RM Sotheby's automobilia auction part 1: I think some items were cheap but some not, agree that many descriptions were poor. I bought a few (cheap) items and found that, for a european based buyer, this auction is not a bargain at all. Unlike german automobilia auction houses which ship the items at convenient rates, Rm Sotheby's does not handle packaging and shipping, the quote I got from UPS is scaring (more than 35% the price of the items I bought). Then I'll have to pay import taxes of 22% on the total (items and shipping cost).
So my cheap items will become normal or expensive, and I'm not willing to bid during auction part 2!