Vintage Bowie T-shirts Surpass $2k Estimate

Too, too high a price?

The two vintage David Bowie T-shirts that we told you about last month (11.02.2007 NEWS: VINTAGE BOWIE T-SHIRTS ESTIMATED AT $2,000) went under the hammer at the Christie’s New York Rock & Pop Memorabilia Auction yesterday and surpassed the top end of their $1,500 to $2,000 USD estimate.

In the end the shirts sold for $1,875, plus, with the buyers premium at 25% ($468.75), the auction winner will have paid at least $2,343.75 (£1,140 GBP), and who knows what taxes would be added to that?

From now on, partners who ask questions like: “Do you really need that box of moth-eaten old rags in the loft?” can be pointed, with added smugness, in the general direction of this auction result.