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1914 Type 644 Touring ex Sam Arnholz

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2000 Christies Browning Estate auction  $105,000
2015 Bonhams Scottsdale auction  $528,000
Period images

This car carries the angled-louver hood seen in period photos of Types 642 and 646.

In 1913, Victor, CO, gold mining businessman Harry C. Arnold purchased this 1914 Type 644.


Pictured here are his family, left to right: Martha Jane Stewart Blacburn, Clifton Nelson, Virginia Nelson, Blanche Blackburn Nelson
Image source Dennis Nelson, grandson of Harry Nelson

Presumably during Nelson's ownership, the car was repainted a light color. 


This photo is not identified, but is amost certainly the same car.  Note the same accessory bumper.  Image source Alan Wolff Collection

Second owner William Harvey Chapman, also a Victor resident, purchased the car from Nelson in 1948.


He showed it at a Horseless Carriage Club meet in 1949.  Note the same accessory bumper.  Image source Horseless Carriage Gazette, Dec. 1949

Sam Arnholz of Wichita, KS, bought the car from Chapman around 1953.


By 1959 it was restored and running on a tour in Colorado.   Image source Horseless Carriage Gazette, 1959 Vol 21 No 5

Harrah's Automobile Collection purchased the car from Arnholz in 1962.


In 1978 it was sold at the September Harrah auction to Matt Browning.  Image source Horseless Carriage Gazette, 1978 Vol 30 No 5
It was white with green upholstery and wheels, still wearing its '50s Arnholz restoration.


Browning had it restored again, and at his estate auction in 2000, it looked like this.  Image source Christie's


In 2015 it was again sold at auction.  Image source ConceptCarz