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Because his desk and chair are going up for auction, and I am sure the auction house has expectations that are .... at least good.
That's not Chuck himself at the desk, it's Christie's worker Laura Castelbarco in the Associated Press photo. Christie's expects the set to go for $100,000 to $160,000. AP reports: The mahogany desk dates to the mid-19th century and bears a bronze plaque describing its appearance in Luke Filde's drawing, "The Empty Chair." The author's oldest daughter, Mamie, wrote in her memoirs that Dickens used the walnut chair and desk the night before he died in 1870. The desk has been in the family ever since. |
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