Elvis Presley's used Omega Wristwatch, which Johnny Cash gave him, sold for $ 103,700 this week.
Goldin, a main auction house for sports and pop culture, sold the clock recorded as part of its inaugural auction of musical memories, which closed on Wednesday night. Other high -sale items included a personalized suit DA Millings & are used by John Lennon in 1963 ($ 102,480), a signed copy of the Led Zeppelin “Comsence” album ($ 19,520) and George Harrison's sun glasses ($ 47,590). Goldin also established a new sales record for a type 1 photo, or a photo developed from an original negative within two years when the image was taken, of rapper Tupac Shakur, which was sold for $ 10,370, according to the auction house.
Although sports auctions and commercial cards are “Bree and Butter” of Goldin, the company is adventing more pop culture, said Revenue Chief Dave Amerman. This transition is documented in the Netflix program of Goldin, “King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch”, which premiered in 2023 and was renewed for a third season.
“We realized that we get so many music items and build them in our pop culture sales, we just want to separate it and do its own event outside of it,” Amerman told The Times.
Many of the Beatles articles belonged to the music promoter Chris Agajanianwho has been building his collection for more than 40 years. Agajanian has more than 2,000 pieces of memories of the Beatles and signed letters of origin for many of the items in the sale of Goldin.
The music auction also included more than 500 concert posters qualified by the certified guarantee company, the comic rating leader. The poster subjects went from the Grateful Dead and the Beatles to Sonic Youth and Blink-182.
In 2020, Goldin sold one of the most expensive albums of all time: a copy of “Double Fantasy” by Lennon and Yoko Ono that Lennon involuntarily signed for his murderer, Mark David Chapman, just before Beatle was shot in 1980. It was for $ 900,000.
In addition, the auction house has the record of the most expensive toy sold at an auction: a 1979 prototype action figure of the “Star Wars” Boba Fett hunter that was for more than $ 1 million in 2024.
The Goldin's Hollywood & Memorabilia, with the whip “Indiana Jones” by Harrison Ford, a Stormtrooper “Star Wars” Prototype Helder and the “Superman” suit by Geors Reeves, is currently live. The auction closes on August 6.
