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Prices realized from RG Munn American Indian art auction
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Interest and prices remain strong for American Indain art as a four session sale by R.G. Munn rounds off.
The slide show below has full reports on 20 item "prices realized" at the Cloudcroft, New Mexico auction. So far three sessions have finished, and at the time of writing this, one session is still available and open to Online bidding.
Often when people think of American Indian collectibles, they are under the impression that to be valuable, they must be from the pioneer days of the Wild West. Not true.
There have been several revival periods for Native Americana, the strongest being the 1970s in my opinion. This era brought about many fine pieces of Turquoise jewelry, paintings, Acoma pottery and Kachina dolls among other things. While these items generally don't bring as much money as their antique counterparts, they do sell well in their own price range, and when they hit the auction block, competition is usually very good. However, there auction features many lots available for collectors of early and later periods.
One thing I found very interesting about some of the wonderful offerings at this four session event, is the scope of the auction and oddities included. For example, lot 50 which is a 1970s-80s Navajo textile of Mickey and Minnie Mouse and lot 51 a 1950s-60s Navajo textile of the American flag.
If this is your thing, there's still time to catch session four which features a Paiute/Shosone bowl, more Kachina dolls, Hopi basketry, Zia, Jeddito and Choco pottery to mention just a few things. This session features 274 lots.
