Antiques/Collecting: Going Wild for Wilde at a Birthday Sale of the Century ; Richard Edmonds Looks at a Forthcoming Sale of Oscar Wilde Rarities

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The 150th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's birth (the brilliant Anglo- Irish poet playwright and conversationalist) will be celebrated on October 29 at Sotheby's in London with an outstanding sale of first editions, inscribed presentation copies, personal letters, manuscripts, original photographs and other important ephemera relating to the writer.

Sotheby's describe the sale contents as 'the finest collection of Oscar Wilde material remaining in private hands'.

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Antiques/Collecting: Going Wild for Wilde at a Birthday Sale of the Century ; Richard Edmonds Looks at a Forthcoming Sale of Oscar Wilde Rarities

At the sale these rare items are estimated to fetch in excess of pounds 600,000. But the sheer quality of the 100 and more items may well prove the estimate to be a modest one since col...

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