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ThePotomack Companyauction house in Alexandria, Virginia, is selling hundreds ofpersonal itemsandworks of artthe justice, who died in September 2020 at 87, kept in her Supreme Court chambers and at her Washington, D.C., home.
“These items are truly tangible pieces of her life and times as one of America’s greatest Supreme Court justices,'' the Potomack Company owner, Elizabeth Haynie Wainstein,toldThe New York Times. “These items would be of interest to all Americans who admired Justice Ginsburg as a civil rights pioneer and defender of equality for all Americans.”
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Proceeds from the sales of the pieces in the justice’s art collection and her personal items will go to the Washington National Opera.
Ten percent of the seller’s commission will benefit Women of Berkeley Law fellowships at the University of California, Berkeley, theTimesreports.
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As of Thursday, 17 bids on the justice’s black mink coat had pushed its price to $2,250, while the top bid for a collection of three ashtrays was $225.
In January, the auction house Bonhams held asale of more than 1,000 personal booksand other items that belong to Ginsburg.
source: people.com
