Space Exploration Auction Soars at Heritage
Published October 20th, 2008
On Oct. 7, at its downtown Dallas headquarter, Heritage held its Space Exploration Auction for a rapt in-person audience and an engaged buying public bidding over the phone and via Heritage Live!, the gallery’s online, real time bidding service. When the rocket fuel had cleared the showroom and the Ethernet lines the total sales of the auction exceeded $826,000, a remarkable amount considering the finite amount of lots available and against the $713,000 pre-auction high total estimate.
Many of the consignments in this sale were received directly from the Apollo astronauts themselves,” said Howard Weinberger, Senior Space Consultant for Heritage. “Demand for Apollo 8 and 13 memorabilia is very high, and the availability of it very low. Heritage feels extremely fortunate to not only be able to auction these items, but also to get them straight from the source.”
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