Buyers snap up last pieces of Camelot

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Times
From James Bone in New York



FANS of the Kennedy clan swarmed Sotheby’s saleroom in New York yesterday for what could be their last chance to grab a piece of Camelot.

Hundreds turned up at the start of the three-day sale to bid on belongings ranging from a doorstop to one of President John Kennedy’s rocking chairs, prescribed by a doctor for his bad back.

Jean-Paul Morre, a property agent, travelled from Belgium to be the first in line outside the auction house. He went away happy after successfully bidding $1,900 (£1,000) for a glass goblet engraved with a whaling scene. “I am fascinated by the Kennedys. I have been to Dallas and all those sort of things,” he said. “I just wanted something authentic.”

The 600 lots were put up for auction by President Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline, after her brother, John, died in a plane crash off Martha’s Vineyard in 1999.
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