Now some categories grew 50 percent in the course of the year, but others saw 1000 percent growth and the aim of this article is to demonstrate perspective … and perhaps the need for some recalibration of what value really means. This article is about perspective, because we’re now tracking all auction genres and we were able to watch with some form of perspective as 2021 unfolded. Most of the digital memorabilia is in part 2 of this article (the 152 science lots between $100,000 and $999,999) which drops next week. In some ways we began to see computer and digital memorabilia began to seriously appreciate in 2021, and if you have visions of one day collecting up all those things you once owned along your tech journey into some sort of museum for the family archives, do it soon or it will become prohibitively expensive to do so. Indeed, as such remarkable technological progress has been made in the last century, many fundamental texts and artifacts are still available at prices that do not yet reflect historical perspective. We have long opined that the marketplace for science and technology memorabilia was grossly undervalued and fundamental breakthroughs in understanding of every aspect of science will one day be valued far more than they are today. Clearly, the market for scientific manuscripts, technology and sci-fi memorabilia was finally beginning to move. This year we saw 23 science-related lots that sold for more than US$1.0 million and another 152 lots over $100,000. Normally, in a year at auction, we might see on average, two or three million-dollar science-related results and around 100 lots selling for more than $70,000. The result is something we’d never seen before, and you will definitely have never seen before, full of fascinating tales and astonishing prices. The 2021 auction year was quite extraordinary, with almost all auction categories reporting unprecedented levels of participation and sales.įor the last five years, the New Atlas end-of-year market recap of the science, sci-fi and technology auction year has been focused on just technology-related lots, but this year we’ve decided to do it a little differently by including all auction genres in our analysis.
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