Auction Items

Unable to attend this year's party, yet eager to bid on the many wonderful tour and tickets, antiques and artifacts up for auction? Have an HDC staff member represent you in your absence! Take a look at the list of items below and make us an offer! Be sure to keep checking back, as the list is updated daily.

To place an absentee bid or rsvp to the auction itself, please email kmorith@hdc.org. Be sure to provide your name, contact information, the number(s) of the items you wish to bid on and your maximum bid for each. Please note that all bids are final.

1: Antique Copper Frying Pan. Donated by George Calderaro
Hand-hammered antique copper pan; Philadelphia coppersmith stamp. Estimated Value: $90

2: Framed Brooklyn Heights Promenade Photograph. Donated by Ann Walker Gaffney
Framed original black and white photograph by Ann Walker Gaffney. Image features the Brooklyn Heights promenade and piers below, with a view of Manhattan and the World Trade Center towers across the river (1998). Measures 8'' x 10". Estimated Value: $150

3: Green-Wood Cemetery tour package. Donated by the Green-Wood Cemetery
A wonderful package including four (4) tickets to a public tour of beautiful historic Green-Wood Cemetery and featuring a collection of eight publications on the cemetery’s history, some of its more infamous residents, and related subjects. Estimated Value: $255

4: “A Plan for New York City:” 1969 Master Plan books! Donated by Beverly Moss Spatt
Six large, full-color folios published to accompany the proposed 1969 Master Plan for the city of New York. Developed by the Department of City Planning, yet never adapted. Package includes one edition for each borough, plus a sixth addressing critical urban issues. Additional publications: Dissenting Report in response to the plan, as well as a separate case study, both by former City Planning Commissioner Beverly Moss Spatt. Very rare, limited printing. Estimated value: priceless

7: Framed Colored Atlas Map of Manhattan, c. 1905. Donated by Ann Walker Gaffney.
Framed 10” x 15” map of Manhattan, in color. Source: pre-1905 atlas, as evidenced by lack of Manhattan Bridge. Estimated Value: $75

8: Private Tour for Four of Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Plus a 1-Year Family Membership. Donated by Lower East Side Tenement Museum.
Private tour for four (4) people of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum with Derya Golpinar, Museum Collections Manager. Includes 1-year museum membership at Family level, complete with access to special events, discounts at the gift shop, and reduced admission to a number of other historic sites throughout the Lower East Side. Estimated Value: $193

9: Framed abstract print by L. Caine. Donated by Susan Tunick.
A framed and matted 1989 silkscreen print with three irregular geometric shapes in red, blue and yellow. From the renowned Denise René Gallery in New York. Numbered 78/375. Measures 11.5” wide X 14.5” high. Estimated Value: $200

10: Historic Crown Heights North Home Tour. Donated by the Crown Heights North Association.
Two tickets to the annual tour of this beautiful and architecturally diverse neighborhood, designated as a New York City historic district in 2007. Beyond the number of wonderful private homes you will visit, the tour also features a church, museum and community garden. The tour will take place Saturday, October 3rd. Estimated Value: $50

11: Framed Steam Fire Engine Engraving, 1867. Donated by David Goldfarb.
Engraving depicting “The Metropolitan Steam Fire Engine No. 1, Employed by the New York Fire Department,” originally published in Scientific American, September, 14, 1867. Accompanying Scientific American article included on back of frame. 5” x 9.5”. Estimated Value: $75

12. Framed Lithograph, Manhattan Cityscape, 1857. Donated by David Goldfarb
Framed, 6.5” x 4” lithograph depicting an 1831 view of “Bourne’s Store”on Broadway near Franklin Street, Manhattan. Inscription reads: "lithograph by Geo. Hayward for D.T. Valentine’s Manual, for 1857". Estimated Value: $75

13. Cut Glass Bowl. Donated by David Goldfarb.
Brilliant, intricately cut glass bowl. 3” x 6” Estimated value: $100

14: Book Lot #1: New York Stories. Donated by Richard McDermott.
A collection of memoirs depicting the personal experiences of New Yorkers, young and old, past and present. Estimated Value: $65

• Brooks, Gladys. Gramercy Park: Memories of a New York Girlhood. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1958. (first edition.)
• Hamill, Pete. A Drinking Life. Boston: Back Bay Books, 1994.
• Hewitt, Edward R. Those Were the Days. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.
• Wright, Mabel Osgood. My New York. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1926.

15: Book Lot #2: The Fourth Estate. Donated by Richard McDermott
Enjoy a detailed journey into the world of New York City journalism, featuring an in-depth look at The New York Times; one man’s experiences at the New Yorker; and a history of Park Row, the historic center of the city’s newspaper industry. Estimated Value: $50

• Churchill, Alan. Park Row. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1958.
• Gill, Brendan. Here at the New Yorker. New York: Random House, 1975.
• Shepherd, Richard E. The Paper’s Papers: A Reporter’s Journey through the Archives of The New York Times. New York: Times Books, 1996.

16: Book Lot #3: Mad Men. Donated by Richard McDermott
Explorers, soldiers, and revolutionaries grace the pages of these four books; together their lives touch upon some of the most notable moments in American history. Estimated Value: $50

• Johnson, Donald S. Charting the Sea of Darkness: The Four Voyages of Henry Hudson. Camden, ME: International Marine, 1993.
• McCullough, David. 1776. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
• Josephson, Matthew. Sidney Hillman: Statesman of American Labor. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1952.
• Pyle, Ernest. Brave Men. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1945 (eleventh printing).

17: Book Lot #4: The Naturalists. Donated by Richard McDermott
Enjoy a glimpse into the lives of two notable environmentalists. Estimated Value: $30

• Brooks, Paul. The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972.
• Teale, Edwin Way. North with the Spring. New York: Dodd, Meade & Company, 1963 (18th printing).

18: Preserving New York: Signed Book & Lunch with Author. Donated by Anthony C. Wood
Receive a signed copy of the award winning Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City's Landmarks and be the guest of its author, Anthony C. Wood, for lunch at, and a tour of, a prestigious New York City landmark not regularly open to the public. Enjoy the beauty of this landmark and join in a lively conversation over lunch on subjects ranging from NYC's history and its landmarks, as well as efforts, past, present and future to preserve them, with one of New York's leading preservationists. Estimated Value: $150

19: "Brick Duo," an original work by Susan Tunick. Donated by the artist.
Two corresponding glazed and hand-carved brick-like units by artist and terra cotta specialist Susan Tunick. Each piece measures 2.5” wide x 9.5” high x 3.5” deep. To be placed together, either hung on wall or up against a self. Estimated Value: $750

20: One-Week Global Time Share Stay. Donated by Ethel Tyus.
One week’s use of a condo-type accommodation at any available facility within the RCI.com network of resorts. From France to Spain, Mexico to Montego, the extensive accommodations offered by RCI present endless opportunity to plan the vacation of your dreams! All residences are 2-bedroom/2-bath and sleep up to six people. Full kitchen and separate living room. Expires 8/13/2009, with option to extend for minimal fee. Christmas week excluded; market value varies depending on season and location. $250 in mandatory processing fees. Estimated Value: $2300-2900

22. Art Deco Vase. Donated by Leo Blackman & Ken Monteiro.
Stylish ceramic art deco vase accented with “skyscraper” details. Measures 8” x 3.5”. Estimated Value: $80

23. 4 Poems. Donated by June Abrams.
A limited edition hand bound, accordion-style book, designed and illustrated by June Hildebrand Abrams, with poems by Kirby Congdon. Number 35 of 50. From the review: the “bold dramatic cuts [in Ms. Hildebrand’s linoleum-cut and silk screen prints] perfectly dovetail with the hard-edged but graceful language of Congdon’s poems.” “Kirby Congdon, best known for his prose poetry and Cycle Press publications here offers four of his finest poems, influenced by Robert Frost and Dylan Thomas.” Other copies reside in the collections of the New York Public Library; Poets House, NYC; Universities of Buffalo, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Texas; the Minneapolis Museum; Herschl & Adler Gallery, NYC; and others. Measures 7.25”x10”. Estimated Value: $50

24. Framed Olana Photograph by Kathryn Millon. Donated by Leo Blackman & Ken Monteiro.
Black and white, 4.5”x4.5” photo of Frederic Edwin Church’s home. From the Olana Partnership’s website: “Olana, considered one of the most important artistic residences and planned landscapes in the United States, is the last and perhaps greatest masterpiece created by Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900). Church designed the landscape and his Persian style home on and around the same hilltop where, as an eighteen year old student, he sketched spectacular views of the Catskills and the river alongside his mentor Thomas Cole.” Estimated value: $450

25. “THE WAR BEGUN” New York Herald, Morning Edition, Saturday, April 13, 1861. 8 pages, some stains and tears.Donated by Jack Taylor.
In 1861, the “New York Herald” had a daily circulation of 84,000, leading the paper to call itself “the most largely circulated journal in the world.” No. 8982 reports on the bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, the beginning of the Civil War. In addition to war reporting, the newspaper contains pages of advertisements for lodging, entertainment and amusements, jobs, and meeting notices giving an interesting look at life in mid-19th century New York City. Estimated value: $50.00

24. Framed Brooklyn Heights Photograph by Anne Walker Gaffney. Donated by Ann Walker Gaffney.
Framed and matted original photograph by Ann Walker Gaffney. Estimated value: $250

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