# Wilson Bentley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T16:17:38.665Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 6
- Lots with prices: 5
- First auction date: 2014-11-16
- Latest auction date: 2024-09-26
- Median realised price: $600
- Price range: $500 to $1,000

## Market Takeaway
Wilson Bentley has 6 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $600. 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 \($600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($600 to $650\) 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: 80% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 20% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $1,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-09-26
- Days since latest sale: 585
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.: 2 lots
- Keith Delellis Gallery LLC: 2 lots
- Ader: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2021-10-24 | WILSON BENTLEY, EARLY PHOTOGRAPH OF SNOWFLAKE | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | $500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-wilson-bentley-early-photograph-of-snowflake-1336-c-c7647968ce
2. 2021-10-24 | WILSON BENTLEY, EARLY PHOTOGRAPH OF SNOWFLAKE 1896 | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | $650 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-wilson-bentley-early-photograph-of-snowflake-1896-1335-c-fe24452a7b
3. 2024-09-26 | WILSON ALWYN BENTLEY \(Vermont, 1865\-1931\), Three snow crystal studies, circa 1910., Silver print microphotographs from glass plate negatives, images 4" x 3". Framed 20" x 11.5". | Eldred's | $1,000
4. 2020-12-17 | Wilson Bentley, Snowflake, c. 1900 | Keith Delellis Gallery LLC | $600
5. 2020-11-12 | Wilson Bentley, Snowflake, c. 1900 | Keith Delellis Gallery LLC | $600
6. 2014-11-16 | Wilson Bentley \(1865\-1931\) dit "Snowflake" Flocon de neige, c. 1930. | Ader | N/A

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