From R & R Enterprises:
A record number of bidders from around the globe, prompted by worldwide press coverage of a Christmas Day letter from Charles Dickens, participated in R&R Enterprises' final auction of 2006.
The 1849 letter, which begins with warm holiday greetings and ends with a vitriolic attack on an unscrupulous journalistic foe, realized $3,829. The Christmas association and ironically ³Scroogy² tone of the letter captured the imagination of the international press, with news reports appearing in such U.S. outlets as Forbes, the Washington Post, and CNN, and in publications throughout Canada, Europe, and Australia.
Trumping the beloved British author was Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, whose undying appeal and singular mystique induced one collector to pay a whopping $27,738 for an early signed photo.
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