In auction they came out personal belongings of Freddie Mercurywhich he had given to his girlfriend Mary Austin shortly before she died, however there was a lot of backlash for her decision to come out after years under the hammer.
The auction was conducted by Sotheby’s house and one day before it took place, the Queen guitarist, Brian Mayexpressed his disappointment.
In accordance with forbes.comMay wrote on Instagram that “tomorrow Freddy’s most personal items and texts, which were part of everything we lived with him for so many years, go under the hammer, to be handed over to the highest bidder and scattered forever.”
“I can’t see it. It is very sad for us, his closest friends and family,” he added later.
What came out of the “hammer”
The publication states that the auction sold the piano with tail, which Mercury had used to compose many of Queen’s hits. However, it was priced below the £1.74 million the house estimated the original bid would be.
On the contrary, the his green, graffiti-filled garden doorfetched over 400,000 pounds, at a time when the house thought no one would claim it.
Also, in the “hammer” they got one Tiffany table lamp which fetched six times its list price, at £60,960, and one buffet of 1895 for 31,760 pounds.
Here are Associated Press photos of some of the items up for auction:
Source: News Beast
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