FREEMAN'S TO HOLD FIRST POP CULTURE SALE

FREEMAN'S AUCTION HOUSE HAS RECENTLY ANNOUNCED ITS FIRST SALE OF POP CULTURE AND MEMORABILIA. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SIMEON LIPMAN, OF ANTIQUES ROADSHOW FAME, THE 3.SEPTEMBER AUCTION WILL FEATURE BOTH CONTEMPORARY AND CLASSIC SPORTS, MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT MEMORABILIA, ALONGSIDE NEW EMERGING MARKETS SUCH AS PUNK AND HIP HOP, DESIGNER TOYS, AND STREET ART. THIS VARIETY OF GENRES WILL APPEAL TO A BROAD AUDIENCE, INCLUDING MOVIE BUFFS, SPORTS FANS AND URBAN ART ENTHUSIASTS ALIKE. A RARE HIGHLIGHT OF THE AUCTION IS A REMARKABLE TWO-PAGE LETTER FROM FRANK SINATRA TO CHICAGO DAILY NEWS WRITER MIKE ROYKO, WRITTEN AFTER ROYKO CRITICIZED SINATRA AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CHICAGO POLICE. THE LETTER, WITH A PRE-SALE ESTIMATE OF $10,000-15,000, WAS FAMOUSLY PENNED AND COPYRIGHTED BY SINATRA IN MAY 1976. IN ADDITION TO THE HISTORIC LETTER, THE AUCTION WILL INCLUDE MORE THAN 310 ITEMS FROM CELEBRITIES LIKE MARILYN MONROE AND THE BEASTIE BOYS, PROPS AND COSTUMES FROM MOVIES LIKE BLADE RUNNER AND TERMINATOR 2, AND ORIGINAL GRAFFITI ART FROM UNDERGROUND ARTISTS. IN TOTAL, THERE IS SOMETHING FOR ANY FAN OF CURRENT AND PAST MOVIE, MUSIC AND SPORTING TRADITION.
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