Within the final hour the highest bid for Ingmar Bergman’s canceled passport went from 15,500 to 44,000 SEK or nine times the original estimated value. 
When I first saw it I figured it would double the estimate. In fact it hung around 10,000 until the day before the auction close. When Bukowskis emailed me the “One hour to go” notice, the bid stood at 15,500. There must have been a few nervous people hovering around their computers for those final 60 minutes.
The winning bidder is obviously seasoned with a customer number so low, 1202 -giving 97,205 (an apparent newbie to the Bukowski Market auction) quite a run for the money.
How do you appraise the value of celebrity memorabilia anyway? Has piqued my curiosity what the resale value will eventually be.
Thanks for that worthless information. We all read it in the real press by real reporters not someone who has the time to spill useless bile.
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@TT. You flatter me with your devotion to my blog (which is short for web log i.e. an on-line diary of random musings and not journalistic reporting in case you are confused). I look forward to reading your comments again. I hope you’re sharing my blog on Facebook and Twitter too
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YEs I’ll follow you everywhere. It makes me feel especially good to know that no matter how low (your contributions to life) get, there are genuine people around that stop the voices of pretentiousness and dumbness get through. Please ensure any children you have contribute to your social networks as well. The we can laugh and pity how they are being brought up.
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@TT. Excellent. I’m thrilled to have you as a devoted fan.
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Your welcome. thrills cant be easy to come by judging by your contributions to a private website.
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I suppose people think of it as a tangible connection to Bergman, or something.
Things usually have to be older than that passport to interest me (like that time I got to hold a real old sword at the Royal Arms museum when I was 14) unless there is a personal connection, but I can understand the principle.
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