# James Merritt Ives - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T17:46:37.039Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2006-05-07
- Latest auction date: 2025-08-27
- Median realised price: $1,200
- Price range: $58 to $5,500

## Market Takeaway
James Merritt Ives has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,200. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($1,200\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($700 to $1,900\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 36.8% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 63.2% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 9
- Recent 12 months median: $975
- Previous 12 months median: $1,500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-08-27
- Days since latest sale: 244
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Arader Galleries: 8 lots
- Dominic Winter Auctions: 3 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 3 lots
- Dorothy Sloan Books: 2 lots
- Kaminski Auctions: 2 lots
- Copley Fine Art Auctions: 1 lots
- Cowan's Auctions: 1 lots
- James Cox Gallery: 1 lots
- Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates: 1 lots
- Stamford Auction: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-08-27 | IVES, BLAKESLEE, & CO., BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, "PREACHER AT THE PULPIT" CLOCKWORK TOY | Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates | $975 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ives-blakeslee-co-bridgeport-connecticut-preacher-at-the-pulpit-clockwork-toy-13-c-57d4f27962
2. 2024-12-10 | CURRIER, NATHANIEL; and FANNY PALMER. American Winter Scenes. Evening. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,250 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-currier-nathaniel-and-fanny-palmer-american-winter-scenes-evening-252-c-33d4e2496d
3. 2024-12-10 | CURRIER, NATHANIEL; and FANNY PALMER. American Farm Scenes. No. 4. | Swann Auction Galleries | $4,420 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-currier-nathaniel-and-fanny-palmer-american-farm-scenes-no-4-251-c-cfc4b48846
4. 2024-11-23 | CURRIER LITHOGRAPH, THE LAST WAR\-WHOOP | Arader Galleries | $1,200
5. 2024-09-11 | Ives \(Charles Edward\). 114 Songs, 1922 | Dominic Winter Auctions | N/A
6. 2024-06-22 | CURRIER, WILD DUCK SHOOTING | Arader Galleries | $1,000
7. 2024-06-22 | CURRIER, ARGUING THE POINT | Arader Galleries | $1,500
8. 2024-06-22 | CURRIER, THE LAST WAR\-WHOOP | Arader Galleries | N/A
9. 2024-06-22 | CURRIER, THE PRAIRIE HUNTER "ONE RUBBED OUT" | Arader Galleries | $1,800
10. 2024-06-19 | Ives \(Charles Edward\). 114 Songs, 1922 | Dominic Winter Auctions | N/A
11. 2023-05-10 | Ives \(Edward\). A Voyage from England to India, 1st edition, London, 1773 | Dominic Winter Auctions | £4,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ives-edward-a-voyage-from-england-to-india-1st-edition-london-1773-62-c-3c1476ab99
12. 2023-04-22 | Currier Lithograph, Flora Temple and Lancet | Arader Galleries | $550
13. 2020-06-28 | CURRIER & IVES | James Cox Gallery | $700
14. 2018-12-13 | CURRIER, NATHANIEL; after HEWITT, W.K. Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington in Long Island Sound | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-currier-nathaniel-after-hewitt-w-k-awful-conflagration-of-the-steam-boat-lexington-in-long-island-sound-338-c-f2e442b8b1
15. 2014-10-11 | Currier, The Road,\- Summer. | Arader Galleries | $1,900
16. 2014-08-24 | Currier, Clipper Ship, Print | Kaminski Auctions | $375
17. 2014-06-07 | Currier, American Country Life. Pleasures of Winter. | Arader Galleries | $1,000
18. 2013-01-21 | Currier \(1813\-1888\) & Ives \(1824\-1895\) The Return From The Woods | Copley Fine Art Auctions | $58
19. 2012-05-17 | Ives, Girl Reading, O/C | Kaminski Auctions | N/A
20. 2010-10-09 | The Life of a Fireman Lithograph by Currier | Cowan's Auctions | $1,527
21. 2009-12-12 | CURRIER, N. Third Day of the Siege of Monterey | Dorothy Sloan Books | $900 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-currier-n-third-day-of-the-siege-of-monterey-394-c-6a214f1c4b
22. 2009-12-12 | CURRIER, N. Battle of Resaca de la Palma | Dorothy Sloan Books | $450 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-currier-n-battle-of-resaca-de-la-palma-393-c-f252823494
23. 2006-05-07 | IVES, CHAUNCEY BRADLEY | Stamford Auction | $5,500

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