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Cordier’s March 20 Firearms and Militaria Auction featured a fine assortment of Pennsylvania long rifles including one from Perry County that sold for $1,200.  Other highlights at the Harrisburg auction house included Colt revolvers, sporting rifles, and militaria. Prices quoted are hammer prices. Bidding started with an array of antique handguns, notably a Colt 1860 Army revolver, built in 1862, which brought $1,600.  In modern handguns, the highlights included a Colt Python revolver in .357 magnum, which sold for $2,100.

Cordier Auctions’ first catalog auction in 2016 offered an illuminating array of treasures including the top lot, a Tiffany Studios Grapevine Lamp with Lily Pad Base that sold for $24,000, a 4.78 carat ruby and diamond ring at $13,000, and a Mughal jade hilted Khanjar dagger that was hammered down at $12,000, among other lots. The February 20-21 sale was held in Harrisburg, PA.  Prices quoted are hammer prices.

Cordier’s Spring Firearms and Militaria Auction on March 20 will offer a selection of Colts and Winchesters as well as more than a dozen Pennsylvania Long rifles.  Other items coming to the block will include collectibles from the Civil War through the World War II.  The sale will be held at Cordier’s auction house at 1500 Paxton Street, Harrisburg.

Cordier’s February 20 and 21 Antique and Fine Art Auction in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is to feature a rare Tiffany Grapevine table lamp with Lily Pad base (estimate $8,000-12,000), the Saul and Florence Putterman collection of modern and ethnographic art, and fine furnishings and art from a King’s Point, New York estate.