Julien's Auctions has two big sales coming up in June, one focusing on the guitar and technology wizard Les Paul and the other on a variety of memorabilia including Elvis Presley's original crypt.
The
Les Paul Estate Auction will be held on June 8 and 9 in Beverly Hills and include 741 lots of items from throughout the innovator's career. Among the big items:
Late-1950's Gibson Les Paul Custom Guitar. Signed. (est. $60,000 - 80,000)
Late-1960's/early-1970's Mixing Console (est. $40,000 to 60,000)
1968 Gibson Prototype Les Paul Guitar. Signed (est. $40,000 to 60,000)
1951 Fender No-Caster. Gift from Leo Fender to Paul. Signed by Fender. (est. $40,000 to 60,000)
1982 Gibson Les Paul Prototype Recording Model Serial No. 001 (est. $20,000 to 30,000)
Two weeks later, on June 23 and 24, Julein's will hold a
Sports Legends/Music Icons auction with almost 1,000 lots.
Probably the strangest lot of the auction is number 796A, Elvis Presley's Original Crypt. It is located in Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis and, for a time, was the resting place of both Presley and his mother Gladys while Vernon Presley worked with the city to allow the two bodies to be buried on private property at the Graceland mansion. The auction is for the crypt, the internment, an inscription on the vault and the internment ceremony. Auction estimate is set at $100,000.
Also up for auction:
Elvis Presley owned motorcycle jacket and pants (est. $30,000 - 50,000)
Elvis Presley's 14k gold medallion necklace inscribed with "E.P." (est. $25,000 - 30,000)
John Lennon signed registration card for his 1965 Rolls Royce Phantom V (est. $20,000 - 30,000)
David Bowie's Gibson Chet Atkins Country Gentleman guitar (est. $20,000 - 40,000)
Amy Winehouse's robe from the Rehab video (est. $15,000 - 17,000)
Elvis Presley signed acoustic guitar (est. $15,000 - 20,000)
