Will Seippel, CEO of WorthPoint, enjoys watching the objects offered at auctions held by our WorthPoint Trade Companions. We thought it could be an awesome concept for him to pick out a few of his favourite offered objects and clarify why these gross sales stood out to him. Gaining insights from Will is a superb strategy to study shopping for and promoting developments in our trade. We wish to empower you to purchase and promote with confidence. Check out his ideas on a number of of our companions’ current gross sales.
On November 14th, 2025, WorthPoint added 297,503 objects to its Value Information, with a complete worth of $21,573,611.21 and a mean lot worth of $72.51.
Lovely Western Artwork
Freeman’s held a extremely profitable artwork sale on November 6–7, bringing in over $2 million, and the standout piece was by my all-time favourite Western artist, Henry Farny. His small gouache on paper, Distant Village, measuring simply 10.25″ x 7.5″, hammered for a formidable $216,400. Farny’s consideration to element is unmatched, and this piece—that includes a lone Courageous on horseback gazing towards a distant village of teepees set in opposition to a desert butte—was no exception. The portray has an extended exhibition historical past, having appeared at establishments starting from the Trigg-C.M. Russell Basis to Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Artwork. It additionally got here from the property of Henry V. Nickel, a revered environmental lawyer from Potomac, MD, who handed away earlier this yr. Distant Village additionally had robust provenance, with possession traces by means of notable galleries and collectors.
The sale’s second-highest performer was Charles Marion Russell’s Indians on the Plains, a 1903 watercolor and gouache that offered for $191,000. Russell and Farny have been contemporaries who each acknowledged the quickly vanishing Native American lifestyle, and every traveled West to doc it firsthand. Russell’s piece, measuring 7 5/8″ x 20 1/8″, depicts a tense, anticipatory second as a gaggle of Native riders survey the huge Plains under—basic Russell storytelling. Just like the Farny, this work additionally got here from the Nickel property and carried stable provenance, passing by means of sellers comparable to Kennedy & Co. and Mongerson Wunderlich. Russell was identified for action-packed scenes, however this portray reveals his mastery of the quiet earlier than the storm, capturing the suspense and majesty of the Western panorama.
From One Finish to the Different
Heritage introduced in $742,347.70, however two very totally different heaps stood out to me. The primary was a set of 4 Japanese woodblock prints by Yoshida Hiroshi, whose work—although a lot later than the early masters—has a definite, fashionable sensibility that units him aside. These prints have been a part of his Asia collection from the early Nineteen Thirties, simply earlier than World Struggle II, and the group offered for $16,875. Every print carried Yoshida’s signature, crimson seal, and jizuri mark, that includes scenes that ranged from Ajmer to Udaipur to Afghanistan. On the exact opposite finish of the artwork world, Heritage additionally provided unique Rubbish Pail Youngsters art work from the Topps Vault, with items within the $10,000–$11,000 vary. One instance was the unique John Pound artwork for Minimize-Up Carmen / Dotted Lionel, a extremely prized piece tied to the cultural phenomenon that continues to have an intense collector base.
A Standout
One other standout from the Miller & Miller Watch and Jewellery sale was a very gorgeous skeleton watch by Ulysse Nardin. Crafted in 18K white gold and restricted to simply 200 items, this Ref. 1700-129 Skeleton Tourbillon is a masterclass in openworked design, showcasing its manually wound motion, blued metal arms, engraved energy reserve indicator, and a flying tourbillon at 6 o’clock. The sapphire exhibition again reveals much more of the distinctive ending that defines Ulysse Nardin’s haute horlogerie. Introduced on a black alligator strap with an identical white gold deployment clasp, the watch weighed in at 130.16 grams and got here full with its unique field and papers. It offered for a formidable $33,454.67 USD, and primarily based on situation notes, it seems to have by no means been worn.
A Surreal Distinction
The oddest merchandise of the day got here from Fairhill Auctions in Maryland, the place they offered a love letter from one in every of WWII’s most notorious figures, Heinrich Himmler, to his mistress Hedwig Potthast. Potthast, his secretary and concubine, bore him two youngsters, and Himmler overtly legitimized these relationships amongst SS officers to counter declining wartime start charges. On this postcard, he disturbingly refers to her as “Bunny,” a jarring show of tenderness from somebody chargeable for unimaginable brutality as head of the SS and German police. The letter was despatched the day after the Wannsee Convention—an nearly surreal distinction between private affection and historic horror. The postcard itself had been torn in half and taped again collectively, including to its unusual aura. It finally offered for $3,750.
Will Seippel is the founder, president, and CEO of WorthPoint. Will has been an avid collector since 1974 and seller of nearly all issues vintage—with an emphasis on ephemera— since 1984. He’s additionally the creator and founding father of HIP, an internet site dedicated to recording one of the best of the world’s historical past that has been saved on movie.
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