MEDIA MOGUL COLLECTION PIQUES CURIOUSITY

The personal effects of Lew Grade’s private office with his desk, various industry awards and ephemera, Dunhill humidor and a box of his favourite Montecristo No.2 cigars

The team at Dore & Rees look forward to holding it’s second Curious and Collectable auction, building on the success of the last sale in September 2022.  Curated by Marc Allum, well know to many from BBC Antiques Roadshow, the auction includes coins, antiquities, tribal art, film posters, music and film ephemera, militaria and mechanical models and more.

The highlight is the Lord Lew Grade Collection which features personal items from the media mogul’s office and home.  Grade first became widely known as an entertainer who danced his way to fame, working with the likes of Fred Astaire.  He was a successful talent agent in the 1930s and by the mid-1940s, Lew had formed a partnership with his brother, travelling to the US and building connections with the best known performers of the day such as Bob Hope and Judy Garland.  They became the main bookers of artists for the London Palladium.  Roll forward a decade and Grade had become the driving force behind Associated Television’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium.  He went on to invest in trans-Atlantic media projects, bringing a particularly British flavour of drama to the American market and found great triumphs with series such as The Persuaders and The Prisoner.  He was also the driving force behind Gerry Anderson, bringing us all the cult classics such as Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet.  Grade’s films were often underrated at the time but have since acquired highly acclaimed status.  On Golden Pond is one such film, but the Pink Panther franchise, The Boys from Brazil and the Muppet movies were all highly successful.

It is an honour to handle such a collection and to share it with collectors around the world.  We look forward to an entertaining and exciting auction day.

CURIOUS AND COLLECTABLE
INCLUDING
THE LORD LEW GRADE COLLECTION

WEDNESDAY 19 JULY 2023
10:30am 

VIEWING
Saturday 15 July 11am to 3pm
Monday 17 July 10am to 4pm
Tuesday 18 July 10am to 4pm