Record sale at Hudson auction

Photo by Walter Hill for Stair Galleries

Hudson art dealer and musician Peter Jung reports that the Fabergé figurine of a Russian bodyguard commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II brought an auction price of $5.2 million this afternoon at Stair Galleries. Found in a Rhinebeck attic, the piece was described earlier this month in a New York Times article. Even without doing a thorough search, it seems safe to say that represents the largest price paid for anything in the City of Hudson ever, including real estate.