'Sound of Music' Outfits Sell for $1.56M at Auction
- July 31, 2013 23:04
The drapery costumes worn by the Von Trapp children and a brown dress donned by Julie Andrews while singing "Do-Re-Mi" in "The Sound of Music" soared to $1.56 million at a Profiles in History auction in Calabasas, Calif.
Memorabilia in the July 28 and 29 sale went well above estaimtes in many cases. The "Sound of Music" costumes had a high estimate of $1.2 million, which was exceeded by $360,000 with fees.
Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" cane went for $420,000 from a $120,000 to $150,000 pre-auction estimate. One of Dorothy's iconic dresses from "The Wizard of Oz" sold for $360,000.
_The_Sound_of_B100x100_c.jpg "Howard Terpning, The Sound of Buffalo")
![Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.](/images/c/e2/2e/Jan20_Rape_of_Europa100x100_c.jpg "Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.")
100x100_c.jpg "‘The Surf Riders of Hawaii’ by A.R. Gurrey Jr., the earliest and most important book pertaining to the sport of surfing, circa 1910-1914, one of eight known survivors or an unknown original number. Handmade with eight gelatin silver period photos of surfers in Hawaii, adorned with hand calligraphy and including poetry and prose by Lord Byron and Gurrey")
