The Collection of Donna Summer

Christopher June is a Junior Specialist in the Decorative Arts department focusing on American, English, Continental, and Russian silver and objects of vertu. Born in Anchorage, Alaska, Christopher completed his undergraduate degrees in History and Art History at Seattle University before earning a Masters of Arts degree in Fine and Decorative Arts from the Sotheby’s Institute, London. Christopher joined the Christie’s Client Services department in the summer of 2017, before transitioning to his current role in the Fall of 2019. Since joining the Decorative Arts Department, Christopher has contributed to a number of important sales including La Rêverie: The Collection of Sydell Miller (2021), The Private Collection of Jayne Wrightsman (2020), The Collection of Ann and Gordon Getty (2022) and The Orange Blossom Collection (2023).

Peter joined Christies in 2016 after twenty years working with manuscript Americana, spending the first portion of his career cataloging for, and later managing, a Connecticut auction house specializing in historical autographs. In 2005 he left that firm to pursue opportunities as a consultant, agent and dealer. Although his primary interests center on early America, especially the American Revolution and Early Republic, Peter has appraised, cataloged and sold a wide range of material from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

Since joining Christie's, Peter has worked with many important collections including the papers of the Marquis de Chastellux, The Private Collection of President and Mrs. Reagan, The Findlay-Wright Papers, the Roger Judd Collection of American Historical Autographs, the Louisiana Purchase Collection of A. J. Tullock, The Collection of Lee Bouvier Radziwill, The Private Collection of William S. Reese, The Birth of Wikipedia, The Papers of Richard N. Goodwin, and most recently, DJ Kool Herc and the Birth of Hip Hop and The Collection of André Leon Talley. Some of Peter’s more prominent auction records include the sale of the Albert Einstein God Letter, bringing $2.89 million—a world record for an Einstein letter at auction; the unique Ionic Original disc of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” (£1.48m); and most recently the Arizona Spike: one of four presentation spikes presented at the ceremony marking the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 ($2.22m). Peter holds a B.A. in History from Antioch College, and a M.A. in History from the University of Delaware with a certificate in museum studies. He has curated several exhibits including a major exhibition at Federal Hall in New York celebrating the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln in 2009.