ELTON JOHN PINBALL WIZARD BOOTS MOVIE
The 54-inch-high fiberglass boots worn by John as the Pinball Wizard in the rock movie ″Tommy″ went to British businessman Stephen Griggs for $20,200. Stone also bought platform boots, a presentation gold disc and a boater with a model of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on top.
The restaurant chain paid the top price of $5,948 for a pair of glasses with blue and yellow lenses in mother-of-pearl frames embelished with rhinestones. 'Pinball Wizard' is a song written by Pete Townshend and performed by the English rock band the Who, featured on their 1969 rock opera album Tommy. And the biggest buyer appeared to be Warwick Stone, bidding by telephone from Los Angeles, who spent about $118,000 on items for his Hard Rock Cafe. The outrageous eyeglasses of the pianist-singer-composer were the biggest draw. Three signed photographs of the American Apollo 15 astronauts dedicated to the ″Rocket Man,″ one of John’s biggest hits, sold for $3,350, when only $300 had been expected. Louis″ sold for $3,346, more than three times the top estimate. The top price of the day was $29,744 for a Wurlitzer jukebox made in 1940 and originally offered for $11,830.Ī camisole worn by Judy Garland in the movie ″Meet Me in St. ″Buyers were coming out of the woodwork - most of them we had never heard of,″ said Sotheby’s spokeswoman Susy Robinson. Prices soared two, three and four times above estimate for items some art critics have dismissed as junk. But plenty of fans turned up to bid for his glitzy eyeglasses, zany hats and costumes, diamante-soled platform shoes, pinball machines, Rembrandt etchings and jukeboxes. John, 41, who says he has run out of room for new things at his mansion, was in Miami, Fla., preparing a U.S. Three more days of sales will see off John’s art collection, antiques and furniture, which are expected to fetch the equivalent of $5 million. Sotheby’s, the auctioneers, said the opening batch of memorabilia fetched double their estimated worth, and an evening sale was disposing of his art deco jewelry. LONDON (AP) _ Rock star Elton John threw a high-class garage sale of his treasures at the world’s richest auction house Tuesday and cleared more than $700,000 at the first session.
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