The three-day occasion, containing 1,600 heaps from the Knudsen assortment, plus different choose consignments, realized greater than $8.1 million (together with purchaser’s premiums).
Native American iconography dominated the highest 10 sellers, with an especially uncommon and visually compelling Wasatch Gasoline (Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah) double-sided porcelain service station signal promoting for $324,000, a file for this signal. Pre-sale estimate for the 48-inch diameter signal was $75,000-$150,000.
Following intently behind the blue-ribbon Wasatch signal was a pre-1925 manufacturing Mohawk Gasoline “down feather” double-sided porcelain service station signal, which bought for $312,000. Certainly one of solely 4 identified examples of the earliest porcelain promoting utilized by the historic San Francisco model, pre-sale estimate for the signal was $100,000-$200,000.