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February 14, 2012
Erotica buffs swarm to Swedish vintage porn auction
Published: 6 Dec 09 10:44 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23682/20091206/
A collection of more than 4000 vintage porn magazines will be sold at an auction in Karlstad in western Sweden on Sunday.
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"For the most part, it’s pretty tame, at least up until the end of the 1960s,” Peter Petterson, auctioneer at the auction house in Karlstad", told the Värmlands Folkblad newspaper.
The magazines are dated between 1950 and 1980. They were discovered in boxes in the storage unit of a deceased Karlstad resident.
It took Pettersson 10 hours to sort the magazines ahead of the auction. Older publications of this sort occasionally pop up at auctions, but Pettersson considers the sheer number to be unusual.
There are many erotic magazines collectors in Sweden, many of whom have contacted the auction house in hopes of purchasing portions of the collection. But all of the magazines will be sold together.
“Otherwise there’s a risk that people will tear them by leafing through them. And it would take forever,” Petterson said.
He hopes to receive 10,000 kronor for the entire collection, but believes that selling portions of the collection online could fetch ten times that amount.
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As a matter of interest, has the local ever considered hiring a journlist to report the news.
It is obvious whoever is picking the news stories needs to grow up.
Seriously there are important events happening daily. Why are they not reported?
The collection would be right at home in the desks of those who began the current Depression.
When you drive from Oslo to Sweden and just as you cross the Swedish border there is a sign in Norwegian that has 4 arrows.
Golf
Antiques
Porno
2KM
I guess driving about another hour or so would place one in the Mecca of Swedish porn. Whowouldathunkit?
Wall Street are expert waankers .. with or without porn ... they get turn on by Washington on the note not by naked women..
C'mon .. if you don't enjoy pron, your sex life stinks.... and is damn boring ...
Karlstad like any city and bedroom has a right to enjoy porn...
Any porn news is better than news of killings in Iraq and Afgan. anyday...
I guess one talk from experience about pages stuck together ... perverts come on the pages and they stuck together ... porn connoisseur never do it on the pages..
Hope you all get some tonight!
ha ha