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. One man raised his hands over his head in victory and hugged the woman seated next to him after bidding 635,000 pounds ($801,500) for the rhinestone-studded crown and red fake fur cloak Mercury wore on stage at the end of every show during Queen's last tour in 1986. Or it could have been the buyers of one-of-a-kind memorabilia who won. ![]() Depending how you looked at it, the champions of the night may have been Sotheby’s or Austin or a few charities she’s promised to donate an undisclosed portion of the proceeds to.
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