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LET THE BIDDING BEGINWhat’s on offer this month at the world’s finest auction houses

A NIGHT-CLUB MAP OF HARLEM, E. SIMMS CAMPBELLswann�auction�galleries﹔�est﹒�﹩��﹐���–﹩��﹐���

E. Simms Campbell was the first syndicated African-American cartoonist and later one of the highest-paid illustrators in the country, but few of his works reflect his identity as a black man. A rare exception is A Night-Club Map of Harlem (1932), a pen-and-ink guide to the speakeasies, clubs, and characters that defined Prohibition-era life on 125th Street. —john�bolen

JERRY SEINFELD’S 1955 PORSCHE 550 SPYDERgooding�and�company﹔�est﹒�﹩�﹐���﹐���–﹩�﹐���﹐���

In Seinfeld, Jerry’s living room features a poster of a black 911 Turbo getting serious air. He’s a “Porschephile” in real life, too, and this month he’s bringing three of his 47 Porsches under the gavel at the Amelia Island Car Auction, off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida. Highlighting the sale is this 550 Spyder from 1955, the same model that James Dean was driving when he fatally crashed.

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Deborah Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, was long overshadowed by her five older sisters, includingnovelists Nancy and Jessica Mitford. But the duchess, who died in 2014, at 94, was a woman of taste as well—painted by Lucian Freud, photographed by Cecil Beaton, and often bedecked in dazzling jewelry, including this 2012 “Camélia” brooch by Chanel.

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