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Offering original Tolkien Letter
30 Dec, 2016
(edited)
2016/12/30 8:00:16 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
2016/12/30 8:00:16 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
Dear Sirs,
I am a french collector of rare letters, I own a four pages original manuscript letter of Tolkien I am ok to sell to a true Tolkien collector.
My email : [email protected]
The letter is in Paris, France.
Best
Mathias Meyer
Images at Letter to Doris Elizabeth Sykes (July 1956)
I am a french collector of rare letters, I own a four pages original manuscript letter of Tolkien I am ok to sell to a true Tolkien collector.
My email : [email protected]
The letter is in Paris, France.
Best
Mathias Meyer
Images at Letter to Doris Elizabeth Sykes (July 1956)
This letter was offered by Christies in June 2013, along with an additional letter to Doris Sykes, the lot sold for £15000.
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/bo ... raph-5694877-details.aspx
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/bo ... raph-5694877-details.aspx
This is being offered for auction again by Hermitage Fine Art July 8, 2020, 5:00 PM CET Monaco
Est: €18,000 - €25,000
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot ... ywordalertlive&utm_term=2
Est: €18,000 - €25,000
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot ... ywordalertlive&utm_term=2
They are having another go at the same estimate though it allegedly sold for €16000 in July
Hermitage Fine Art October 28, 2020, 3:30 PM CET Monaco
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot ... ywordalertlive&utm_term=2
Hermitage Fine Art October 28, 2020, 3:30 PM CET Monaco
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot ... ywordalertlive&utm_term=2
quote:
''I have been neglectful, I fear, but I am a dreadfully married man, having a v. full-time job...''
Harried. ''I am a dreadfully _harried_ man...''
''I have been neglectful, I fear, but I am a dreadfully married man, having a v. full-time job...''
Harried. ''I am a dreadfully _harried_ man...''
garm wrote:
quote:
''I have been neglectful, I fear, but I am a dreadfully married man, having a v. full-time job...''
Harried. ''I am a dreadfully _harried_ man...''
That's hilarious. ?
They have managed to get this letter into the Daily Mail, Tolkien is still a dreadfully married man on the website.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic ... like-set-sell-15-000.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic ... like-set-sell-15-000.html
Trotter wrote:
Tolkien is still a dreadfully married man on the website.
Oh dear...
I noticed another misleading transcription, too. They have 'the best way of doing hobbits is to make them absolutely ordinary human beings (except for a neat goatee or buskin of hair)', which made me do a huge double take at the word goatee. But it looks to me like the letter actually reads 'except for a neat gaiter or buskin of hair', i.e. on their lower legs/ankles and feet.
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