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![]() Other items that were treasured by fans were Mercury’s draft lyrics to “Somebody to Love” (241,000 pounds $304,000), and “Don’t Stop Me Now” and “We Are the Champions,” which both fetched the same final prices: 317,500 pounds $400,700. Sotheby’s said it was the highest price ever paid for a composer’s piano, but they didn’t provide information on the previous record. It had been expected to sell for as much as 3 million pounds ($3.75 million) but sold for 1.7 million pounds ($2.2 million). The Yamaha baby grand piano that Mercury wrote some of Queen’s greatest hits on was one of the few items that sold for less than its estimated price tag, though it still sold for the most amount of money. ![]() One of the quirkier items, a silver moustache comb from Tiffany & Co, that had been expected to set a buyer back 400 to 600 pounds ($500-750) had a bid at 35,000 pounds ($43,750). Publicity from “Freddie Mercury: A World of his Own” drove up bidding for online auctions that began last month and closes next week.Įven items being sold online that had seemed like they might be in reach for some average buyers eclipsed pre-sale estimates.Ī collection of chopsticks once estimated to fetch 40-60 British pounds ($50-75) had a current bid 1,200 pounds ($1,500) Wednesday. More than 140,000 visitors from around the world queued up outside the elegant auction house to take a tour. The green door covered in hand-painted love notes from fans who made a pilgrimage to the house in the tony Kensington section of London sold for an eye-popping 412,750 pounds ($521,000).Īll of the proceeds of the sale of a Cartier onyx and diamond ring given to Mercury by his friend, Elton John, that sold for 273,000 pounds ($344,000) were to go to the “Rocket Man” singer’s AIDS charity.Īrt sold at the auction included prints by Pablo Picasso (190,500 pounds $240,000), Salvador Dalí (48,260 pounds $60,900) and Marc Chagall (63,500 $80,000), antique furniture and numerous cat figurines.įor the past month, fans of Mercury who couldn’t afford those kind of prices - or just wanted to see his high-top Adidas, diamond brooches, or a sequined jacket - could view them for free in Sotheby’s galleries. The auction opened with the sale of the graffiti-tagged door to the garden of Mercury’s home that quickly blew past the high estimate of 25,000 pounds ($31,250) projected before the sale and led to a bidding war that lasted nearly 20 minutes. ![]()
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