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Yuri Gagarin's fountain pen and autograph are on display at French auction

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Yuri Gagarin's fountain pen and autograph are on display at French auction


25.02.2019


Fountain pen and autograph of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin are presented at the Cazo auction house in France. The lot is estimated at the 15-20 thousand euro price range. The other lot is a set of 12 photographs of the Soviet cosmonaut and his family members made 3 days before his tragic death. This lot is estimated at  5-7 thousand euro price range, Rossiyskaya Newspaper reports. 

The fountain pen is made in form of a rocket. The autograph consists congratulations that the cosmonaut wrote to Soviet sailors and river-men. 11 out of 12 photographs form the other lot have never been published earlier. 

There are other lots connected with Russian history. In particular, Futurists poetry, Grigory Rasputin portrait; books, photographs and periodicals on White Movement history to be on auction. 

The results of this online auction to be published on March, 3.

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