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LRF

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17/04/2008 4:20 am

just out from the sollo rago auction
would you love to find this lamp at a flee market and give 50 bucks for it?
cause hold on to your hats it is windy !!!!! this Donald Densky lamp sold for $138,000

Personal opinion I think it is ugly

and i told you Paul Evans is the hottest of all this city scape sold for a modest $190,000

I don't know about paying 190 for it but i do think it is wonderful

oh how nice to be rich

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17/04/2008 5:23 am

My friend with clocks
also had a pair of those Desky lamps, and they were just about the most beautiful, precious Art Deco lamps of the 1930's. They were simply beautiful. He sold the pair for $10,000.00 in about 1986 to Fifty-50 in NYC.
They're not my style of collecting passion, but it's not rock science to see real design beauty.
By the way, the Desky lamp is suppose to have frosted glass panels and the silver finish was glossy shiny. They looked almost hand made.
Regarding Paul Evans, it's also not my cuppa tea, but I appreciate how original and clever his stuff was.

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17/04/2008 6:32 am

here is a nice little ...
here is a nice little desk designed by Gio Ponti and made by singer sold for a nice cheap price of $190,000
I think i will take two please.

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17/04/2008 6:39 am

Wendell Castle checks in...
Wendell Castle checks in with his sleigh chair sold for $210,000

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17/04/2008 8:10 am

Australia's marc newsom with...
Australia's marc newsom with his Lockheed Lounge beats them all, selling for more than a million at auction.

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18/04/2008 6:34 pm

lrf
is that the same ponti desk that is in completed items on ebay that sold for 19,000?

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18/04/2008 7:02 pm

The estimate for the Deskey...
The estimate for the Deskey lamp was $2000-4000 with a starting price of only $1000... I guess the seller must have had a shocking but pleasant surprise when it sold for $138000...

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18/04/2008 8:07 pm

sollo ragao Libertyville...
sollo ragao Libertyville nj is where the Gio Ponti made by Singer was acution off at.
I think i would leap off a one story building if i though i killed a fat hog on ebay for 19.000.00 while some other sophisticate sold it for 190,000 thousand dollars at auction, I guess it pays to be informed but don't you know that happens all the time,
Some boys around here found a rare Karl Springer wall mount buffet for 50 bucks had enough brains to send it to auction in Chicago cause they knew no one around these parts would give them much and they ended up getting 15,000 dollars.

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18/04/2008 9:09 pm

The table on Ebay and the...
The table on Ebay and the one on Sollo Rago is the same, since Rago lists their auctions with Ebay Live Auctions. You added one Zero too many there LRF... -still an expensive table though...

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