# Wick Ahrens - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T19:00:30.277Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 16
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2018-07-19
- Latest auction date: 2025-02-15
- Median realised price: $1,250
- Price range: $200 to $7,500

## Market Takeaway
Wick Ahrens has 16 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,250. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($1,250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($275 to $3,250\) 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: 43.8% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 56.3% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $275
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-02-15
- Days since latest sale: 438
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Fontaine's Auction Gallery: 5 lots
- Antique Arena Inc: 3 lots
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 3 lots
- Brunk Auctions: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Greenwich Auction: 1 lots
- Pook & Pook Inc.: 1 lots
- Shapiro Auctions LLC: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-15 | 1997 AMERICAN SCULPTURE SPERM WHALE BY WICK AHRENS | Antique Arena Inc | $275
2. 2024-10-16 | Wick Ahrens, Carved and Painted 'Humpback Whale' | Brunk Auctions | $3,500
3. 2024-06-16 | 1995 AMERICAN SCULPTURE SPERM WHALE BY WICK AHRENS | Antique Arena Inc | $200
4. 2024-04-18 | Wick Ahrens Signed Carved & Painted Whale Plaque | Greenwich Auction | $275
5. 2024-03-16 | 1995 AMERICAN SCULPTURE SPERM WHALE BY WICK AHRENS | Antique Arena Inc | $250
6. 2023-10-21 | Wick Ahrens \(American, 1944\-2016\), Sperm Whale | Fontaine's Auction Gallery | $750
7. 2023-10-21 | WICK AHRENS \(AMERICAN 1944\-2016\) | Shapiro Auctions LLC | $300
8. 2023-07-08 | WICK AHRENS \(VT/CA, 1944\-2016\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $4,000
9. 2023-06-24 | Wick Ahrens \(American, 1944\-2016\), Dolphin | Fontaine's Auction Gallery | $500
10. 2023-03-04 | Wick Ahrens \(American, 1944\-2016\), Sperm Whale | Fontaine's Auction Gallery | $1,250
11. 2022-12-03 | Wick Ahrens \(American, 1944\-2016\), "Humpback Whale" | Fontaine's Auction Gallery | $2,500
12. 2022-12-03 | Wick Ahrens \(American, 1944\-2016\), "Bowhead Whale" | Fontaine's Auction Gallery | $2,500
13. 2021-11-13 | WICK AHRENS \(VT/CA, 1944\-2016\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $7,000
14. 2021-11-13 | WICK AHRENS \(VT/CA, 1944\-2016\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $7,500
15. 2021-01-13 | Wick Ahrens carved and painted whale plaque | Pook & Pook Inc. | $1,500
16. 2018-07-19 | WICK AHRENS, Vermont, d. 2016, Two carved wooden sperm whale plaques., Lengths 35.25" and 35.75". | Eldred's | $3,250

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