Auction Block: Poster, Print, Bracelet, Clock, Roller Skates, Porsche
By • September 13, 2026 0 379
In this month’s Auction Block: a copy of the most famous American World War I recruitment poster, an Art Nouveau clock, a cuff bracelet by Native American artist Marian Denipah, a print by master glass artist Dale Chihuly, a Keith Haring piece made with marker on roller skates and, to start off, a Porsche auctioned in Pebble Beach, California.
Christie’s
Estimate: $1,800,000 – $2,200,000
Sold for: $1,682,500
This 1964 Porsche 904 Carrera GTS — which was raced in 1964 and 1965 at venues including Sebring, Daytona, Bridgehampton and Nassau — was sold at the Aug. 14 and 15 Pebble Beach Auctions of Gooding Christie’s, the official auction house of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance (Christie’s acquired Gooding & Company in 2024). With coachwork by Heinkel, the car is accompanied by its original engine case, heads and crankshaft.
Doyle
Estimate: $7,000 – $9,000
Sold for: $23,040
In 1983, artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) used a marker to create “Untitled (Roller Skates),” which sold for well over twice the high estimate at Doyle’s ’80s New York auction, featuring Julia Markus’s Keith Haring Pop Shop Collection. Haring studied art in Pittsburgh and at New York’s School of Visual Arts. He expanded the imagery of his subway chalk drawings in more than 50 public murals. Openly gay, Haring died of AIDS-related complications aged 31.
Sotheby’s
Estimate: $1,000 – $1,500
Sold for: $2,560
About seven inches tall, this “Tudric Architectural” clock was crafted around 1910 by London’s Liberty & Co. Clock Company. Made of polished pewter, enamel, hammered copper and brass, it had been part of the Talmor Collection of Liberty Clocks. The brand name “Tudric” was probably meant to refer to the Tudor dynasty, rooted in Wales, though the style is Art Nouveau. The clock’s sale price was significantly above the high estimate.
Bonhams
Sold for: $25,600
This gold, coral and diamond cuff bracelet, part of Bonhams’ Aug. 26 Modern Native American Art & Jewelry auction, was made by Marian Denipah (b. 1946), an artist of Diné (Navajo) and Ohkay Owingeh Tewa heritage. Its face is inlaid with trapezoid-cut coral stones above a round 0.50-carat diamond. The interior has a cast hummingbird motif and a cast signature. The lot included a first-prize ribbon from the 2003 Santa Fe Indian Market.
Weschler’s
Estimate: $600 – $800
Sold for: $3,200
Selling for four times the high estimate at Weschler’s Aug. 4 Metro Online auction, “Spring Fling” is an undated serigraph — a limited-edition silkscreen print — with mixed media created by Dale Chihuly. Born in Takoma, Washington, in 1941, Chihuly earned a bachelor’s at the University of Washington and two master’s degrees in sculpture, one under Harvey Littleton at the University of Wisconsin and the other at Rhode Island School of Design.
Freeman’s
Estimate: $4,000 – $6,000
Sold for: $17,920
This 1917 color lithograph of the classic “I Want You For U.S. Army” poster — one of more than four million copies printed during World War I — has the ink stamp of the recruitment station at 3 Tremont Row in Boston. It sold for nearly three times the high estimate. Born in Westchester County, New York, artist James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) studied at New York’s Art Students League in the 1890s and in London and Paris. A key figure in the Golden Age of American Illustration, he worked for the Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s.
