Comments on: Auction Preview for Antique Maps & Prints, week of Oct 17 http://www.vintagemaps.com/blog/2005/10/19/auction-preview-for-antique-maps-prints-week-of-oct-17/ The Antique Maps and Antique Prints Blog Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Anonymous http://www.vintagemaps.com/blog/2005/10/19/auction-preview-for-antique-maps-prints-week-of-oct-17/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Anonymous Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:16:28 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=121#comment-3 Texasiana is very hot right now!<br />There is an online auction going on<br />now for a very detailed 1840 hand drawn surveyors map(brown ink on heavy paper) of the Matagorda Bay<br />area of Texas(showing among other things, landowners,including Austin)<br />With a few days left,the bid is currently $3,500 Texasiana is very hot right now!
There is an online auction going on
now for a very detailed 1840 hand drawn surveyors map(brown ink on heavy paper) of the Matagorda Bay
area of Texas(showing among other things, landowners,including Austin)
With a few days left,the bid is currently $3,500

]]> By: Neil Street http://www.vintagemaps.com/blog/2005/10/19/auction-preview-for-antique-maps-prints-week-of-oct-17/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Neil Street Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:22:39 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=121#comment-4 <b>Antique Texas Maps and Documents<br />Sizzle in San Francisco</b><br /><br />Bidding was fast, furious, and in some cases, very high, at PBA Galleries in San Francisco yesterday. An autograph document signed by Stephen Austin, as Secretary of State of the Republic of Texas, with a pre-sale estimate of $4,000-6,000, sold for around $19,000. William Emory's 1844, <i>Map of Texas,</i> with a pre-sale estimate of $1,000-1,500, cleared more than $8,000. Another autograph letter, signed by James Morgan, estimated at a lowly $700-1,000, garnered a jaw-dropping $34,000 plus. But the lot that had the champagne corks popping at PBA? Lot number 409, a manuscript contract for the founding of the Mercer Colony in Texas, signed by Sam Houston as President of the Republic of Texas. The pre-sale estimate of $15,000-25,0000 was blown away, as the document's price smashed through six figures, finally bringing down the hammer in excess of $160,000. (Including premium.) No question at all -- Texasiana is <b>hot</b>. Antique Texas Maps and Documents
Sizzle in San Francisco

Bidding was fast, furious, and in some cases, very high, at PBA Galleries in San Francisco yesterday. An autograph document signed by Stephen Austin, as Secretary of State of the Republic of Texas, with a pre-sale estimate of $4,000-6,000, sold for around $19,000. William Emory’s 1844, Map of Texas, with a pre-sale estimate of $1,000-1,500, cleared more than $8,000. Another autograph letter, signed by James Morgan, estimated at a lowly $700-1,000, garnered a jaw-dropping $34,000 plus. But the lot that had the champagne corks popping at PBA? Lot number 409, a manuscript contract for the founding of the Mercer Colony in Texas, signed by Sam Houston as President of the Republic of Texas. The pre-sale estimate of $15,000-25,0000 was blown away, as the document’s price smashed through six figures, finally bringing down the hammer in excess of $160,000. (Including premium.) No question at all — Texasiana is hot.

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