Life-size statue with plaque of Leo the Lion, whose roar to this day still signals the start of an MGM movie. Leo was the most famous of all the MGM animals, trained by Captain Phifer.
Circa 1905 automaton by the famous Parisian maker Roulett & Decamps, titled The Dutch Drunkard, 43 inches tall, pictured in front of two original Western movie posters from the 1930s.
Gorgeous 1951 Jaguar Mk V drop head coupe that’s undergone an extensive renovation. 1951 was the model’s last year of production (108 of the cars were produced between 1948 and 1951).
Massive, 18-foot-wide neon Hollywood sign, pictured with some of the jukeboxes up for bid.
The Star Trade Register, one of the three most collectible cigar store trades stimulators, circa 1903, featuring a Regina coin-op disc music mechanism, one of perhaps just five survivors.
His auction firm – Preston Opportunities – has the slogan, ‘Where Rare is Common.’ Those words will be on full display in the 1,100+-lot auction, in Macon, Ga.
My motto has always been, ‘Where Rare is Common,’ and at no time will that be more true than in my farewell auction event. My wife’s been after me to do this for years, and I finally gave in.”— Preston Evans
MACON, GA, UNITED STATES, September 8, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Preston Evans has dropped hints in the past that the next auction on his calendar would be his last, but there was always a longtime friend’s estate that needed liquidating, or a major consignor would beat a path to his door that he couldn’t turn away. Fate always conspired to keep him in the game, a game he’d been playing for decades. Only this time it’s different.
The legendary Georgia-based auctioneer – who
