You too can bid on Ingmar Bergman’s canceled passport at Bukowski’s Market (formerly Auktionskomaniet.) I’m tempted. 
Link to auction.
Of late I am a bit addicted to the on-line auctions. (We need a lot furniture and things -like art- after moving from a little 1-bedroom apartment to a house.)
That leaves me vulnerable to buying things I plainly just don’t need but am oh, so intrigued by. The estimated value of the passport is 5000kr but currently bidding is at 6700 with 10 days left, so I have a feeling we’re going to see this take a run and pass 10,000. Thankfully, that financial reality leaves me out –especially considering there’s a 20% commission to pay.
But it leaves me mulling about what it would be like to have that kind of memorabilia in my possession and what it could be worth in 30 years. Bergman has only been dead since 2007. Retirement fund?
I think I’ll have to stick to traditional saving vehicles for my retirement, but I am still romanticizing the idea of owning a tiny bit of something so personal of someone so culturally influential, all the while within my niche all things Swedish.
Ain’t gonna happen for me, I’m afraid.
(for those who aren’t familiar…)
Ingmar Berman is world renowned for the iconic direction of The Seventh Seal 
Tags: auktionkompaniet, bukowskis, ingmar bergman, Ingmar bergman passport, seventh seal
You might have spelt his name right. (Yawn)
After reading your latest crap post from crapsville, I took a look thru your previous entries in the interests of fairness, to see if I’d commented on a rare boring post.
Alas, I have to say that ALL your posts are as shitty as the latest.
For Christs sake lady, just give it up!! We don’t want to read your mindless drivel!
And before you reply with what I note is your standard reply now “Thank you for your devotion to my blog blah blah blah”, please don’t bother.
To be clear-none of us who have commented negatively ony our crappy blog are “devoted” to it. We just like to have a good laugh at how bad your writing is. I for one, am genuinely stunned at why on earth The Local would let you have this blog. It’s absolutely s***!!!!!
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Good God! are we reading the same blog? I’ve just read it all to here from the start, and think it’s one of the best and most intelligent blogs I have read!
I can’t help thinking that the name of it is a little unfortunate – only because it has apparently attracted the interest of some of this planet’s lowest form of pondlife.
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@Jane. Thanks for the vote of confidence. Unfortunately, I obviously rub someone(s) the wrong way.
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