Expected to fetch $45000,the simple wooden chair on which the author wrote the books has traded hands a few times in recent years. Who will buy it now?The oak chair that author JK Rowling sat in while writing the first two book Harry Potter books may not confer magical powers. But as a piece of literary memorabilia, it is impossible not to be charmed by it perhaps even bewitched enough to tender $45000 for it. That will be the opening tender when Heritage Auctions offers the very special seat for sale in unique York next month, or on behalf of an unnamed consignor in Manchester,England. Listed among the top five “finest collectibles in Muggledom”, this 1930s-era dining chair was given to Rowling in 1995 as part of a free set to furnish her council flat in Edinburgh. She choose the “comfiest” one of the four – the one with a red thistle decoration – as her writing chair while drafting both Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998). Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com