Lot 90
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Elvis Presley
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Elvis Presley

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Elvis Presley
An Elac Miraphon 12 portable record player with four speed turntable in a duotone carrying case, signed and inscribed on top of the case in blue ballpoint pen To Karin thanks from Elvis Presley "59", also signed and inscribed inside the lid in blue ballpoint pen Karin - "A big hunk o' love" from Elvis Presley, August "59", additionally signed and inscribed inside the lid by Elvis' bodyguards Best Wishes Red West and Thanks Lamar Fike -- 6x13x14in. (15x33x35.5cm); accompanied by two copies of the single record, A Big Hunk O'Love/My Wish Came True, 1959, RCA; a colour machine-print publicity photograph of Elvis wearing a gold lamé suit -- 17½x12in. (44.5x30.5cm.) framed; and a document confirming the provenance (5)
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Lot Essay

According to the vendor, this record player was purchased from Mrs Karin Schmitz, who knew Presley when he was stationed in Bad Nauheim in Germany during his army service in 1959. On hearing that it was her sixteenth birthday, Presley asked his father Vernon, to go to the house where Presley and his family were staying, 14 Goethestrasse, and choose something of his for Karin as a present. Vernon Presley returned with the record player which Presley dedicated to Karin.

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