Fire Truck is Top Lot: Kaufman toy collection sale cruises to $3 million
- September 29, 2009 11:39
VINELAND, N.J. - Exhibiting all the "bells and whistles" collectors yearn for, a circa-1912 German Marklin live-steam fire pumper blazed to the top of prices realized in Bertoia Auctions' Sept. 25-26 sale of the Donald Kaufman antique toy collection, part II, achieving $149,500 (inclusive of 15% buyer's premium) against an estimate of $40,000-$50,000. An exciting event that drew scores of overseas buyers, the 1,129-lot auction concluded with a gross that brushed the $3 million mark.
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