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Rhonda Reinhart,
Editor
Tony Walton's Dreamscapes: Heritage Unveils a Designer's Legacy
May 16 auction offers iconic Mary Poppins sketches, Tony-winning Broadway designs and personal treasures from a legendary career
The legendary illustrator left his mark on everything from magazines and pulp paperback covers to movie posters for Breakfast at Tiffany's and Thunderball
Join the experts during American Art Week in NYC for Crafting the Dream, an innovative exploration of American Art, viewed through the twin lenses of "dream" and "craft."
Luxury Accessories
Featuring 18k white gold hardware and nearly 11 carats of pavé-set diamonds, the Hermès Exceptional Collection 35cm Shiny Black Porosus Crocodile Birkin is one of the most special handbags ever created. Rarely offered at auction and highly coveted by collectors, the bag is hand-stitched and finished by a single artisan using one individual skin of the Porosus crocodile, which is prized for its small, square and symmetrical scales. The bag is then hand-dyed and buffed to a radiant finish.
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Rare Books
This exceptionally rare lot is the only known set of unbound gathered sheets for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling's landmark book published in 1997. Possibly a unique survival, these sheets represent the final form of the first Harry Potter book just prior to binding. This newly discovered set of sheets is one of the very few pre-publication versions of the book to have appeared on the market and the only known set of such sheets at this penultimate stage of production.
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Russian Works of Art
This silver-mounted vase is from Gallé's series of glass "marquetry" vases, which explored variations of orchid designs. A number of important works by Gallé are known to have been mounted by Fabergé and other makers such as Bolin, but this may be among the largest and most ambitious of Bolin's mounted pieces. While several Gallé works mounted by Fabergé in silver are known to exist, this appears to be one of the very few by the St. Petersburg branch of the Swedish firm.
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