Valley of the names military tanks2/13/2024 ![]() ![]() A German Panzer IV has an estimated value of $2.6 million, the highest in the collection.Īuctions America declined to reveal the names of registered bidders - though Boller did say “there are some names you would know” - but if North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un is in the hair-trigger gallery this Saturday, he might be interested in three pieces that were built to launch a nuclear warhead before being demilitarized. And though there is no minimum bid required on most items, collectors will need an up-armored credit line to take home an M4 “Jumbo” Sherman tank, expected to fetch bids of about $1.6 million. The auction - open only to registered bidders - takes place Friday and Saturday at 495 Old Spanish Trail. ![]() The collection, housed in 10 large buildings at the top of a hill from which it’s possible to see the entire Peninsula, will be open to the public for viewing Wednesday and Thursday. “There are more” tanks, he says, “than I ever bothered to count.” The auction will feature upward of 80 tanks, although exactly how far upward, even Bill Boller, who has overseen the collection for the past five years, isn’t sure. ![]() Less than a year later, the standoff at Tiananmen Square between a column of Chinese army tanks and a lone man, who refused to let them pass, electrified the world.īut this week, the tank makes its triumphant return to glory - its big guns metaphorically blazing - when the majority of what is believed to be the largest collection of armored military vehicles on the planet is auctioned at the formerly private playground of collector Jacques Littlefield, a Stanford grad who turned his boyhood hobby into an obsession, and had the family fortune to make it possible. The first blow was the image of Michael Dukakis grinning as he clung to a tank turret while running for president in 1988. PORTOLA VALLEY - The tank took two direct hits at the end of the Cold War that hurt its reputation more than any battlefield defeat. ![]()
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