US: George Washington Wine Cooler Fetches $782,500 at Christie’s New York Sale
US: George Washington Wine Cooler Fetches $782,500 at Christie’s New York Sale
Jan 19, 2012 6
(Bloomberg) - A wine cooler that belonged to George Washington and Alexander Hamilton fetched $782,500 at Christie’s (CHRS) auction today, topping its high presale estimate of $600,000.
Three bidders vied for the object, with two on the phone and one in the otherwise quiet auction room for a sale that was part of Christie’s Americana week in New York.
The buyer, on the phone, was Gary Hendershott, a collector and dealer based in Little Rock, Arkansas, who is interested in anything pertaining to George Washington.
“There’s so much history involved in this item,” Hendershott said in a telephone interview. “If the economy was better it probably would have been unobtainable.”
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