Freddie Auction and Sotheby's book discussion

Is it? It’s only a small piece of silver and fire wood has become expensive. 

Going by the bid for the silver snake bracelet, my estimations have grown a lot.

Bo Rhap Lyrics £ 10,000,000
Piano £ 15,000,000

I somehow hope, nobody is reallz that crazy! 

Going by Brian‘s words about the auction , I don’t think he is. No idea about Roger. 

Brian‘s words from yesterday:
“Tomorrow while I’m speaking passionately to Welsh farmers about cows and badgers and bovine TB, Freddie’s most intimate personal effects, and writings that were part of what we shared for so many years, will go under the hammer, to be knocked down to the highest bidder and dispersed forever.

I can’t look.

To us, his closest friends and family, it’s too sad.“ 
brianmay.com/brians-soapbox/2023/09/inescapably-thinking-so-much-about-freddie-auction/

I feel Brian is entitled to his opinion as at the end of the day we have no idea what has gone on between him and Mary , QP and anyone else . We can only speculate there has been opportunities to obtain some of the items . I’m often surprised when Brian shares a photo or video of the band that he says he has never seen before but it has been openly out there for years. Band aid rehearsal footage is a recent example .


From his comment I read into it that there is genuine sadness and that there is an undercurrent of disappointment within the family but mary can do as she wishes and has made it known why she has taken this route .

When I visited the auction last week my daughter and her friend asked why so many stage outfits and lyrics were up for auction and why weren’t they available for people to see long term . From the mouth of the young .

I know. I just caught it at the right time. It all went very quiet at £1m and I thought it was going to go for that.

£190K for STL lyrics.

I was surprised at this. How, a grand piano ( and however it's described, it's not a baby but the next sizes up) takes a lot of room. I know this. When I was left my mum's piano after she died, of the same size, I used the money she eft me to build a room in the garden as I didn't have room in the house

I missed the end. Did the Bo Rhap lyrics go?

£1.379m according to this:

www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/freddie-mercury-a-world-of-his-own-the-evening-sale/freddie-mercury-autograph-manuscript-draft-lyrics-2

And here's the rest:

www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/freddie-mercury-a-world-of-his-own-the-evening-sale

I guess these amount include the fees? They all seem more than the actual items were won for.

Had they approached her at any time in the previous 20yrs and she agreed to sell, the cost of rehoming the items would have been significantly less than it will be today.

The ensemble of Freddie`s cloak and crown got sold for £500.000 to a very happy person in the room.

It has all been on the website. These early lyrics had all been in a notebook with a lot of working lyrics for the album Jazz. There had only been one or two pictures. But it was written in the description, that it included the lyrics to quite a lot of songs. 

The difficulty with the piano especially, as I think I suggested previously, is you need multiple multi-millionaire bidders.

For me the surprise was that there were multiple 6-figure bidders for the bangle, but the black jacket from the same vid only got to 110k or so.

Also, that the "proper art" Tissot portrait didn't go very high at all - one would have thought that was where Sothebys would be more accurate in their estimates, and more capable of making sure that plenty of potential bidders were aware.

That's fair, but also, if you've missed out on some prime Bo Rhap thingy, there aren't that many further opportunities...