This is the catalog produced for the famous Bruce Weiner Microcar
Auction of 2013. This digest-sized auction catalog runs 800+ pages with
car photographs, specifications, page-long descriptions, and auction price
estimates. The auction presented 500 lots of both automobilia and
microcars. The thick catalog, printed on excellent quality glossy paper stock
with a card stock cover measures approximately 5" X 5” X 2". Buying the catalog was your admission to the auction.
To quote a source: “To call this a catalog is a little bit of an understatement. It's
more like a hardbound 800+ page full color encyclopedia of microcars. Without a
doubt, the nicest microcar book ever published.”
This is what was written about the auction:
MINI CARS ATTRACT MEGA INTEREST AT RM'S
RECORD-SETTING BRUCE WEINER MICROCAR MUSEUM SALE
The
focus of the global collector community turned to Madison, Georgia, as RM
Auctions lifted the gavel on the world-famous Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum,
generating more than $9.1 million in sales with 100 percent of all lots sold.
A
true labor of love carefully amassed over more than 15 years by businessman and
lifelong collector Bruce Weiner, the Museum was internationally celebrated as
the world's finest and largest collection of rare microcars. After making a
decision to disperse the collection last year, Weiner entrusted RM Auctions to
present 200 vehicles and 284 lots of collectibles 'without reserve,' setting
the scene for one of the most colorful and fun collector car auctions in recent
history.
Illustrating
the tremendous international interest received in the sale, bidders represented
20 countries from around the world, including as far away as Brazil, Japan, and
Australia, with those in the room joined by a large volume of collectors
participating remotely via the phones and Internet.