One person reached deep into his pocket and paid a total of $189,000 to acquire the Tiffany & Co. comb used by Freddie Mercury in the moustache of.
The purchase was made in auction by Sotheby’swhich brought over 30,000 personal items of the legendary Queen singer under the hammer and sold for more than $50.4 million.
Things they belonged to his friend and ex-fiancée Mary Austin and among them is included the comb, which was a gift from the company to the artist. The original price ranged between $450 and $730, but after high demand it reached $189,000. However, that’s not the only thing that stood out.
In accordance with Insiderin total four personal items by Freddie Mercury were sold for exorbitant sums and one of them is the Yamaha G-2 grand piano, which he bought in 1975 for $1,200. There he composed some of Queen’s biggest hits and was eventually sold for $2.19 million.
Characteristically, Mary Austin mentioned about the special importance of the musical instrument in Mercury’s life that “Freddie treated the Yamaha with absolute respect. He considered it more than an instrument, he was an extension of himselfthe vehicle of his creativity. He never smoked on the piano or put a glass on it and made sure no one else would.”
The first name of “Bohemian Rhapsody”
The “hammer” also came out crown in costume worn by Mercury on ‘The Magic Tour’reaching the amount of 772,000 dollars. Sotheby’s said the singer used them at the end of every concert for the song “God Save the Queen”, with the exception of his appearance at Slane Castle in Ireland in 1986.
Also at auction it sold for $1.59 million the manuscript that wrote the lyrics to ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. These are British Midland Airways papers, containing an early design named ‘Mongolian Rhapsody’, which was later changed.
However, it’s not the only ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’-related item up for auction. Among other things, the silver snake bracelet worn by Mercury in the video clip of the song for the honor of 806,000 dollars.
Source: News Beast
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