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Would you pay $200,000 for a car you can never drive? On May 21 Bonhams Los Angeles will offer the first carved ruby scale-model of a dragster to be featured at public auction as part of its Gems, Minerals & Lapidary Works of Art sale. This desktop treasure was modeled after the famed Greer-Black-Prudhomme Dragster, which was raced by Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, built by Kent Fuller and tuned by Keith Black. The stone car was carved by designer Luis Alberto Quispe Aparicio from solid panels of ruby. It also has obsidian tires, a gold vermeil engine and a windscreen made of polished rock crystal. It carries an estimate of $150,000-200,000.
This isn’t the only work by Quispe Aparicio up for sale. Another of his carvings, "This Skull is on Fire," a rock crystal, gold vermeil and obsidian creation is up for auction with an estimate of $12,000-15,000. Other lots expected to sell well include "Lost Love," a gem aquamarine, diamond, platinum and 18K gold erotic sculpture by New York society jeweler Henry Dunay which is estimated at $150,000 - 200,000; a standing lion made from carved jasper by Christopher Schmidt, Idar-Oberstein, Germany estimated at $5,500-6,500 and a duck made from labradorite by Manfred Gettman, Idar-Oberstein, Germany estimated at $3,000-$4,000.
Lots are available for preview May 17-21 at the Bonhams Los Angeles location on Sunset Boulevard.
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