Wayne Yoder Jr. age 55 of Wautoma passed away on Saturday, August 10, 2024 at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN after his battle with cancer. He was born on December 19, 1968 in Hazelton, IA to Wayne J. and Amanda (Helmuth) Yoder. Wayne owned and operated Yoder’s Auction service along with holding his Real Estate License. He loved to auction whether it was car auctions, horse auctions, antiques…when there was an auction….he was there. Wayne won the Wisconsin State Champion Auctioneer in 2008, competed at the National level in Auctioneering and won numerous State Advertising Awards in many different categories. He even traveled to Alaska to Auctioneer and really enjoyed that. Wayne liked to sponsor locally and was very involved in the community. He enjoyed being outdoors, hunting and had a smile that would light up the room but according to his coffee gang, made the worst coffee. Wayne will be sadly missed by the auction community, his family and friends.
Wayne is survived by his brothers: Joe, Jonas (Wilma), Dan, Enos (Jill), Levi; sisters: Anna (Andy) Yoder, Ester (David) Yoder, Mary (Freddie) Yoder; numerous relatives and many friends. He was preceded in death by his parents and sister-in-law: Mary Yoder
Funeral services will be held at 11AM on Friday, August 16, 2024 at W. Yoder Auction LLC, N2494 Yoder Lane, Wautoma with burial to follow in Richford Cemetery. The family will greet relatives and friends at Leikness Funeral Home, Wautoma on Thursday, August 15, 2024 from 5PM -7PM. The visitation will continue on Friday at W. Yoder Auction LLC, N2494 Yoder Lane, Wautoma from 10AM until the time of services at 11AM.
Country: United States
Year: 2024
Date: August 10
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History of Auctioneering
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The most expensive football (soccer) shirt sold at auction is £7,142,500 ($8,958,124) and was achieved by Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ shirt worn at the 1986 World Cup quarter-final, which was sold at Sotheby’s, London, UK, on 4 May 2022.
The shirt was worn by Diego Maradona as he helped Argentina to knock out England in the quarter-final of the 1986 World Cup. The second goal that Maradona scored in that game was dubbed the ‘goal of the century’ in a FIFA poll in 2002. Maradona’s Argentina went on to knock out Belgium in the semi-finals and beat West Germany 3-2 in the final to lift the famous trophy.
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A painting by acclaimed landscape artist Joseph Turner, titled “Rome, from Mount Aventine”, set an auction record for the painter, selling for £30.3 million ($47.4 million) at Sotheby’s in London, UK, on 3 December 2014. The 92 cm x 125 cm (36 in x 50 in) canvas was based on Turner’s own drawings of the city he made in 1828. It was commissioned by the artist’s friend and patron, Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro.
Before this sale it had only changed hands once, in 1878, when the Fifth Earl of Rosebery bought it from Munro’s collection on his death.
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The highest price ever paid for a coin collection is $44,900,000 (£31,800,000) for the Eliasberg Collection sold over three auctions in 1982, 1996 and 1997 at Bowers and Merena Galleries, New Hampshire, USA. From the 1930s until 1950 Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. (1896-1976), a leading Baltimore banker and financier, attempted and accomplished what had never been tried before – to collect an example of each and every major United States coin variety from the 1793 half cent to the 1933 double eagle.
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The most amount of money paid for a mobile (cell) phone number is 10 million QAR (then £1.46 million; $2.75 million), by an anonymous Qatari bidder for the number 666-6666 during a charity auction hosted by Qatar Telecom in Doha, Qatar on 23 May 2006. QAR = Qatari Riyal
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The “Pizza Royale 2007”, created by Domenico Crolla (UK/Italy) for the premiere of Casino Royale (2007), was auctioned off for charity on eBay to an Italian lawyer for a record £2,150 (US$3,321. The toppings, inspired by Ian Fleming’s sophisticated tastes, include: -Lobster marinated in Louis VIII cognac (worth £1,395 (US$2,154) a bottle!)-Beluga caviar scented with Bollinger Champagne-Fillet steak marinated in Scotch Whisky-Smoked salmon infused with vodka martini-Edible gold leaf-White Italian truffles The pizza normally retails for £750 (US$1,158) at Bella Napoli/Italmania in Glasgow, UK.
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A vivid Fancy Orange diamond sold for 32.6 million Swiss francs ($35.5 million, £22 million) at Christie’s International auction house in Geneva, Switzerland, on 12 November 2013. The diamond had previously been with the same anonymous owner for at least 30 years. The 14.82-carat pear-shaped stone’s price works out as $2.4 million per carat, which is a record for any coloured diamond at a public sale. This beautiful stone is also the largest known vivid Fancy Orange – orange-coloured diamonds being far rarer than their white, pink and yellow counterparts.
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Endpapers are the double-page-size sheets of paper that link the inside cover of a book with its interior pages. The sheets are often highly illustrated and might be used on a number of publications. Endpaper artwork consisting of 34 small drawings of Tintin and his dog Snowy drawn by their creator Hergé (Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi) and depicting scenes from some of duo’s best-known adventures fetched a price of 2.5 million euros ($3.4 million), including fees, when sold at the Artcurial auction in Paris on 25 May 2014. The artwork featured in the endpapers in various Tintin books published between 1937 and 1958.
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On 14 December 2011, a pearl necklace known as “La Peregrina” once owned by actress Elizabeth Taylor sold at Christie’s, New York, USA, for $11,842,500 (£7,601,630), more than four times the estimated price. The 50.6-carat necklace, which dates from the 16th century, was a present to Taylor from her then husband Richard Burton, who bought it in an auction in 1969 for $37,000 (£15,400).
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