{"id":1226,"date":"2008-12-26T09:44:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T16:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/12\/religion-still-bringing-in-the-big-bucks-five-centuries-on\/"},"modified":"2008-12-26T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T16:46:00","slug":"religion-still-bringing-in-the-big-bucks-five-centuries-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/26\/religion-still-bringing-in-the-big-bucks-five-centuries-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion Still Bringing In The Big Bucks Five Centuries On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artmarketmonitor.com\/2008\/12\/18\/people-of-the-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">from Art Market Monitor<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 26px; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; color: #001a43; padding-top: 10px; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-bottom: 3px\">People of the Book<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; margin: 0px\">The Delmonico Collection of Important Judaica was estimated at $4.1 to $5.5 million and featured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeology.org.il\/conservation.shtml\" title=\"image from Archaeology.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archaeology.org.il\/images\/ppt-pics\/scrolls-10.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"246\" width=\"240\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>a 15th Century illuminated Hebrew Bible and forty separate lots\u2013including eleven printed on blue paper\u2013of the Babylonian Talmud printed in Venice. Those two lots sold for multiples of their high estimates. The illuminated bible went to $362,000 (high estimate was $200k) and the Talmud brought in $2.25 million ($977,000 was the most they hoped for) with the eleven lots on blue paper going to one collector who plans to keep them together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; margin: 0px\">In all, the collection scored $7.7 million even though the companion sales of Judaica at Sotheby\u2019s were more like the rest of the art market these days.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #796743; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Posted in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artmarketmonitor.com\/category\/auction-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #553300\" rel=\"category tag\" title=\"View all posts in Auction Results\">Auction Results<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artmarketmonitor.com\/category\/cities\/new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #553300\" rel=\"category tag\" title=\"View all posts in New York\">New York<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artmarketmonitor.com\/category\/auction-houses\/sothebys\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #553300\" rel=\"category tag\" title=\"View all posts in Sotheby's\">Sotheby&#8217;s<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artmarketmonitor.com\/2008\/12\/18\/people-of-the-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at Art Market Monitor<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Art Market Monitor People of the Book\u00a0 The Delmonico Collection of Important Judaica was estimated at $4.1 to $5.5 million and featured a 15th Century illuminated Hebrew Bible and forty separate lots\u2013including eleven printed on blue paper\u2013of the Babylonian Talmud printed in Venice. Those two lots sold for multiples of their high estimates. 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