By Greg Smith

While Major League Baseball may be starting the postseason, a different sort of triple has been at the top of our minds: a triple shot Wheellock Pistol, among other can’t-miss items to hit the auction block this month.

HERMANN HISTORICA

Sale Date: October 25-November 6, 2016
Lot 3088
A Significant German Three-Shot Wheellock Pistol
Circa 1610, three slender octagonal barrels in superposition, each with smooth bore in 7.6 mm calibre. Triple wheellock on a lock plate. External wheels, safeties with folding lever for two locks, spring-loaded pan lid (one spring restored). On the inside elaborate lock mechanism with single trigger bar for all three locks. Three lock screws, the side plate with screw-mounted iron belt hook. Beside it trigger safety with folding lever. Walnut full stock with inlays of engraved and blackened bone. The inlays on the pommel and around the tang replaced. Repairs in the stock wood around the anterior lock screw, a part of the forestock renewed. Iron ramrod. Length 65 cm. Of utmost rarity. Three-shot wheellock pistols were manufactured in very small numbers, only few items are known to be kept in museums worldwide.

Estimate: $30/$36,000

NEW ORLEANS AUCTION GALLERIES

Sale Date: October 14-16, 2016
Lot 120
Important Chinese Inlaid Rosewood Tilt-Top Table
Early Nineteenth Century, the top, pedestal and legs profusely inlaid with flowers, people, birds and seal characters, Height 28″, Diameter 33″. This table is illustrated in Erich Bruggemann’s Kunst und Technik der Intarsien (Art and Technique of Inlay Works).
Estimate: $3/5,000

DUMOUCHELLES

Sale Date: October 21-23, 2016
Lot 102007
Montague Dawson (British, 1890-1973)
Oil on canvas, Height 28” x Width 42”, “The Lofty Clipper- Lighting.” Depicting the clipper under full sail. Signed lower left. Framed.
Estimate: $40/60,000

RAGO

Sale Date: October 14-16
Lot 1053
WHARTON ESHERICK (1887 – 1970)
Exceptional dining table with reticulated base, Paoli, PA, 1935. Oak, carved walnut, carved WHARTON ESHERICK MCMXXXV. Descended in the family of the original owner.
Estimate: $50/75,000

LELANDS AUCTION

Sale Date: Now Through October 28, 2016
Lot 2
Muhammad Ali Ring Worn Shoes
A terrific pair of Muhammad Ali training worn and signed boxing shoes used by the champ during the 1970s, these are white leather boxing shoes which come above the ankle. They contain the original white laces and have 20 sets of eyelets. On each shoe on the outer part above the ankle there is a red, white and blue circular patch, which has a white lightning bolt at center surrounded by 12 white stars. There’s an Everlast manufacturing label inside the tongue of each shoe and an Everlast stamp on the sole of each size 12 shoe. On the lower, outer, right shoe there is an enticing inscription, “To Lowell Riley From Muhammad Ali…Enjoy life its later than you think,” dated what appears to be 6-26-77. The shoes exhibit heavy wear and were sourced from Muhammad Ali’s manager Herbert Muhammad’s personal photographer.
High Bid At Time Of Writing: $1610.51

COPAKE AUCTION

Sale Date: October 15, 2016
Lot 269
Nineteenth Century Folk Art Table
Twig and burl folk art Adirondack table, Height 28.5”
Estimate: $150/200

HERITAGE AUCTION

Sale Date: October 19, 2016
Lot 49205
Leo Tolstoy Letter Signed Outlining His Philosophy of Life
Five pages in French, 8.375″ x 10.5″, Toula, Russia, July 10/23, 1901, to “Mon Prince,” Prince Mirza Reza Khan Arfa, the former Persian Minister in St. Petersburg. A highly important letter, outlining his entire philosophy of life. Signed at close: “Leon Tolstoy”, a rare signature as he generally signed “Leo” rather than “Leon.” Included with this lot is a copy of a 1992-dated Certificate of Authenticity from Charles Hamilton who calls this “A wonderful letter from a great writer…”
Opening Bid: $5,000

NADEAU’S AUCTION

Sale Date: October 15, 2016
Lot 275
Shaker Tiger Maple Candlestand
Square top over two drawers set on plain turned shaft set on tripod base, circa 1800 (top surface refinished). Provenance: Property from the Francis Du Pont Collection drawn from a home in Farmington, CT
Estimate: $6/10,000

GREAT GATSBY’S

Sale Date: 14-16, 2016
Lot 1114
Bronze Mounted Pietra Dura Inlaid Table
Italian pietra dura inlaid marble top center table with geometric designs, supported by dore’ bronze winged lions terminating in a bronze mounted circular base
Estimate: $15/18,000

BURCHARD GALLERIES

Sale Date: October 16, 2016
Lot 1022
Pierre De Belay (French, 1890-1947)
“La French Can Can,” Oil on board, signed lower right and dated ’33. Titled and dedicated verso. Provenance: Estate of Yves Georges Prade
Estimate: $6/9,000