With three full volumes and a whopping 200 stories published, it’s time once again to revise and update the the list of the “Top 25” Significant Object auction prices paid to date. Actually, owing to a tie for the 25th spot, the Top 25 All Time is now technically the Top 26.
Since the last time this list was updated, four Significant Objects from v3 have entered this increasingly exclusive territory:
Wooden Bottle + Christine Hill Story arrives on the chart at the number 6 slot; Wooden Apple Core + Heidi Julavits Story comes in at number 11; Metal Flowers + Justin Taylor Story enters a tie for number 15; and, in a tie for the number 25, Rubber Band Gun + Benjamin Percy Story.
It now takes a whopping $63.50 auction price to break onto this chart. Check it out:
Rank Volume Object Author Market price S.O. Price
1 v2 Globe Paperweight Debbie Millman $1.49 $197.50
2 v1 Russian figure Doug Dorst $3.00 $193.50
3 v2 Kangamouse Chris Adrian $0.00 $162.50
4 v1 Indian Figurine R.K. Scher $0.99 $157.50
5 v2 Music Box Nicholas Rombes $0.50 $147.50
6 v3 Wooden Bottle Christine Hill $1.49 $126.39
7 v2 Rabbit Candle Neil LaBute $3.00 $112.50
8 v1 Wood animal Meg Cabot $0.75 $108.50
9 v1 Pink Horse Kate Bernheimer $1.00 $104.50
10 v2 Mystery Object Ben Greenman $0.99 $103.50
11 v3 Wooden Apple Core Heidi Julavits $1.00 $102.50
12 v1 HAWK ashtray William Gibson $2.99 $101.00
13 v1 “4” Tile Toni Schlesinger $1.00 $88.00
14 v1 Brass Boot Bruce Sterling $3.00 $86.00
15 v2 Just Married Cup Barbara Bogaev $0.75 $81.00
15 (tie) v3 Metal Flowers Justin Taylor $1.49 $81.00
17 v1 Porcelain shoe Sheila Heti $4.00 $77.51
18 v1 Fake Banana Josh Kramer $0.25 $76.00
18 (tie) v1 Missouri Shot glass Jonathan Lethem $1.00 $76.00
20 v1 Measuring spoons Mark Doty $2.99 $76.00
21 v1 Mallet Colson Whitehead $0.33 $71.00
21 v1 Duck Tray Stewart O’Nan $3.00 $71.00
23 v2 Partial Mermaid Tom McCarthy $0.00 $68.00
24 v2 Aquarium Souvenir Mark Jude Poirier $1.00 $66.07
25 v2 Pan Flute Deb Olin Unferth $0.00 $63.50
25 (tie) v3 Rubber Band Gun Benjamin Percy $0.50 $63.50
