The 1/4 million euro weaver’s pulley….

A Baule (Ivory Coast) weaver’s heddle pulley, collected in 1927, sold yesterday at Sotheby’s Paris for Euro 240,750.. more info and auctioneer’s description here

Exceptional early Kuba cloth at Sotheby’s Paris

Lot 7 in Sotheby’s forthcoming African Art sale “A New York Collection” to be held in Paris on November 30th is this superb early raffia textile from the Kuba kingdon in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Estimated at Euro 1000 – 2000 and measuring 76cm x 57, this piece is reminiscent of some of the earliest Kuba cloths from the British Museum’s Torday collection.

Fante Asafo Flags at Christie’s Paris, June 15th.

	LOT 60, SALE 5599, PARIS Estimate: €4,000 - €6,000 ($4,922 - $7,383)
	LOT 61, SALE 5599, PARIS Estimate:€4,000 - €6,000 ($4,922 - $7,383)
	LOT 62, SALE 5599, PARIS Estimate: €4,000 - €6,000 ($4,922 - $7,383)

Featuring these three flags from a major European collection, this sale will be an important test of interest in Asafo flags at a major auction house after the new and dramatically higher prices they realised at Sotheby’s in the McAlpine Collection auctions in 2006 and 2007.