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Thursday, 13 December 2012

MICK JAGGER'S Love Letter sell at auction


Mick Jagger, he wrote a series of love letters in the summer of 1969 187250 pounds ($ 301.472) in an auction sale. Get the lead singer of the Rolling Stones and former lover of the sea Kelly sent to work in Australia film "notes Marcia manuals hunting.

1971 "Brown Sugar", inspired rock hunting, singer born in Philadelphia, door Sotheby required.A issued in the sale of those characters dead. Characters reach a top speed of between $ 110,000 a 160,000 months Loi is expected. However, according to the Associated Press, auctions and private collectors provided nearly two letters said.


Sotheby's books specialist Gabriel Heaton, a collection of the most valuable letters appearing Associated Press, said: "public persona to be different that Jagger is a rare sight to provide:. Emotional and autonomous, rational, but a strong sense ironic broad intellectual and artistic interests of poetry and self-aware 25-year-old "letters, he revealed." "moon landing congratulatory letters from the writer Christopher Isherwood Jagger touch of happiness meeting of John Lennon and Yoko Ono Dishing, and a description of the death of Brian Jones.

Hunting, according to "The Guardian" on his home to pay the bills and letters sold to finance repairs. "I'm broke," he said. "I did not know nothing about me." Hunt Jagger and daughter, Karis, no.



The school love letters and essays by the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels failed auction, putting the future of the document to the question.

Anonymous recipient set the items for auction with Alexander the auction history, where they failed to satisfy the projected $ 200,000 to $ 300,000. Recipients must now decide whether to return to his former home in Switzerland or to leave them for sale in the auction house East Coast.

"Immediately after auction sometimes you get calls from people who can take it or heard about it through the media," a representative of the auction house said. When asked whether the document can be sold separately, the spokesman explained, "it is important to document this level of historical importance are retained and not damaged. If university or museum has been interested in the papers, it would be great, but the organization does not have the money to the purchase of that cost. "



The collection of pre-war archives shows a romantic youth wing - a distant cry from the Hitler and vicious anti-Jewish, who then poisoned his wife and children with cyanide as military allies team moved to Berlin. "It highlights how liberal Goebbels is at this stage of his life," Bill Panagopulos, president of the auction, he said. "The study of the World War II history will be amazed at what people think at this point, he was afraid, love happens, and it is almost a Marxist as you can get." The document contains love letters from a number of young women of the 1920s, including letter of two brothers wrote for young German students together. Most notable of these letters from a woman named Anka Stalherm, Goebbels became quite obsessed. "The relationship is a mess. She looked at him as a son while he was madly in love with," she said Panagopulos. "When she left him, he became angry, he hired a lawyer and ask for their love letters back." Unfortunately, only about 10% of the documents, including report cards, essays, and a semi-biographical novel written in 1923, was translated into English by bad handwriting Goebbels.


Any Nazi memorabilia, Goebbels' Letters must be treated with great sensitivity, especially, still remember the horrors of the Holocaust. "I felt the war was a very strong educational value of these documents," said Michael Newman London Association of Jewish Refugees. "But I do feel strongly against the property will be sold as a profit." The letters may seem innocent and naive Goebbels loved it, Newman said, he is still the same, it is the human being the main architects of the Holocaust, has become a go, "I do not think this is a light switch, it is just that., You can not completely separate the man, Hitler became the number two person in the efficiency of these letters. "

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