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SOTHEBYS THE ESTATE OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS
(((( RARE MINT HARDBACK SEALED CONDITION ))))
| Start Price |
USD 89.99 |
| Current Price |
USD 89.99 |
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USD 99.99 |
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| Start Time |
Thursday, September 04, 2008 |
| End Time |
Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
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netty44 Store SOTHEBY'S THE ESTATE OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS APRIL 23RD - 26TH 1996 THIS HUGE (((( RARE MINT HARDBACK SEALED CONDITION )))) CATALOG CONTAINS 584 PAGES AND 1195 LOTS ALL HIGH GLOSSY COLOR PHOTOS AND ILLUSTRATED IN MINT SEALED CONDITION More than 4,000 items that belonged to the former First Lady will be up for grabs at a Sotheby's auction on April 23. The catalogue is 584 pages long and has nearly 800 illustrations. I want those pearls. In the 60's, Jackie wore a faux triple strand just like the ones Barbara Bush wore in the 80's. But Babs's hold no charm for me. I want the ones President John F. Kennedy looked at over breakfast, the ones Caroline and John-John fingered. I want the pearls that will remind me, every time I wear them, of a period of potential, when I was 17, and a fairy tale seemed to be coming true. I want history's pearls, but if I can't get them, hey, I can be happy with the Black Bead Necklace. When we flock to the estate auctions of famous people like the Duchess of Windsor and Bette Davis, we are hoping to buy more than provenance. The experience of reading the newspaper actually changes if you do it using the lamp President Kennedy read The Washington Post by. Does this mean we are our stuff? And if we buy their stuff, are we them? Does acquiring Jackie's black enamel cigarette lighter mean you have acquired a little piece of the lady herself? If I can't get the beads, I wouldn't mind the Empire-Style Footstool. At some household auctions, it is possible to add up the bits and pieces of the seller's life. That is not true of this auction. It does not evoke Jackie as the jewelry the Duke of Windsor had made for his Duchess evoked Wallis Simpson. The most valuable jewelry in the auction is, in fact, the stuff she got from Aristotle Onassis. Elaborate, almost gaudy, it calls forth the wife of a Greek oil baron and not the widow of an American President. Still, those who buy the initialed black cigarette lighter, or the French grammar that she drew in while a student at Farmington, will have bought their little bit of Jackie. The whole Jackie, however, is in death as she was in life -- elusive, always a step beyond her fans. furniture, jewelry and odds and ends belonging to one of this century's most famous women. She was also one of its most private, a circumstance seemingly at odds with her family's putting up her lares and penates for public consumption. It is not. What the heirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis are selling is either distinguished but not to their taste (some charming drawings, for example, and a Regency games table) or undistinguished (a three-legged stool) or redundant (the Boston rocker is only one of several owned by J.F.K.). There is miscellaneous jewelry ranging from fake pearls to a boar's-tooth necklace. There are wedding presents from the Onassis family. It is safe to assume that there was little argument about whether to sell the Timex watch. Created by eBay Blackthorne ver. 3.2.31.0
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