Another offering from a massive estate collection of comic books. The auction also includes autographs, die-cast cars and collectibles. The auction also includes the second of many auctions to come with comic books from a massive estate collection.
This first session includes vintage toys, non-sports cards, action figures and much, much more. Also included from the Borscherdt collection will be books on firearms, militaria, novels and the Old West.
Lastly, a private collection of antique maps spanning the globe will round out the sale. An auction with a large variety of prints, multiple and works on paper spanning centuries and highlighted by the works of Fritz Eichenberg. Born in Cologne, Germany in , he learned lithography, wood-engraving, and etching and by his early twenties had produced masterful illustrations for Gulliver's Travels and Till Eulenspiegel.
He came to the United States in and over the next five decades produced an astonishing range of individual images and book illustrations. Throughout his life, he was preoccupied with the tragedy of war. He became a close friend and great supporter of Dorothy Day and The Catholic Worker and used his art to express his hope for more justice in the world. This auction will include woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, drawings and more from Eichenberg as well as hundreds of other artists. The auction starts with a single owner collection of ancient coins and Greek currency.
This ancient coin collection was procured very carefully with the utmost detail paid to purchasing only from reputable and established sellers that included longtime coin dealers as well as long established auctions houses.
