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Joan Rivers Collection Garners $2M
Jun 26, 2016 10:37 AM
By Rapaport News
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RAPAPORT... A Tiffany & Co. dog bowl owned by late entertainer Joan Rivers fetched
$13,750 at an auction of her collection of jewelry and other items last week.
The silver vessel, engraved with the name “Spike,” her most famous
pooch, smashed its upper estimate of $800.
The entire collection sold for a combined $2.2 million at the
Christie’s auction in New York.
Rivers – who died in 2014 aged 81 – once said Spike helped the
comedian stay alive after her husband’s death in 1987 drove her to consider
suicide. “What saved me was my dog jumped into my lap,” she recalled in an
interview with The Daily Beast. “I thought, ‘No one will take care of
him. It wasn’t a friendly dog – only to me. I adored this dog.”
Other items included a Harry Winston diamond and platinum
flower brooch, which fetched $75,000, and a gold, silver, aquamarine and
diamond brooch, which was bought for $35,000.
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Auctions, Christie's, Joan Rivers, new york, Rapaport News, Tiffany, Tiffany & CO.
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