Lousy pictures for now, but last week I got very very lucky and won some auctions through a local online estate auction. I was on pins and needles at work that morning, since the auctions ended while I was at work, and I was sure there would be a rash of bidding right before the end. Turns out there weren't a lot of last-minute bids, and I won six lots in total.
Three lots were for vintage Dell comic books: Silver, Trigger, and Champion. At least some of those have Sam Savitt art on the covers, although they weren't allowed to sign their work. A fourth was for a larger (16x20 approximately) framed print of a Sam Savitt work, a color head-study of a bay horse.
The fifth was the one I'd noticed first - five horse figurines. Two are Breyers, a Rejoice and a vintage Appy Family Arabian Stallion. The other three were china, and one made me yelp, especially after I confirmed that it was what I thought it was. One Metlox horse, one copy of a Hagen-Renaker draft horse, and the star of the show, a Hagen Renaker large Honora. Sure, there were a couple of visible repaired breaks, but ! ! ! ! ! !
The last lot was one I'd made a small bid on, just because it was an assortment of horse-shaped objects: three T'ang style horses, a salt-and-pepper set of pintos, a silver stylized horse, a brass less-stylized horse, etc. But later, I took a second look on the computer, with a larger screen, and noticed a rump and tail of a foal, almost hidden by the salt and pepper pintos. All I could see was the rump, tail, and part of the head, but it l ooked like a Hagen-Renaker, most likely a Lying Fez. So I put in a larger bid and crossed my fingers. I won that lot as well, and yep, one very nice Lying Fez.
The only little twitch was that at some point after the auction, the company marked my lots by zip-tying tags to things. And of course, they zip-tied the tag to the Honora, for crying out loud. Luckily nothing broke and
I got the tag off with no casualties.
