Bob Hawke auction: true believers and bargain hunters do battle for belongings
by Michael McGowan from on (#4P2SW)
At an odd mix of memorial and garage sale, greatest demand is for objects the people's PM might have cared about
It's hard to put a price on what Bob Hawke meant to Australians, but at an auction of more than 200 of the former prime minister's possessions in Sydney on Tuesday night they did their level best.
A curious mix of a few hundred bargain hunters and true believers gathered in an upstairs room at the Paddington RSL to bid for a piece of the people's prime minister's private life at an auction grandly titled "Bob Hawke & Blanche d'Alpuget: Mementos, Curiosities, Art and Design".
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