Details
Marilyn Monroe
A pair of reading spectacles, the cat-eye frames marked 5½, the right-hand arm bearing teeth-marks at the terminal; and black silk case lined in white, labelled inside Made especially for you by Devonaire of California; accompanied by a reproduction of a colour photograph of Marilyn wearing a pair of sunglasses in a similar style (printed recently) (2)
A pair of reading spectacles, the cat-eye frames marked 5½, the right-hand arm bearing teeth-marks at the terminal; and black silk case lined in white, labelled inside Made especially for you by Devonaire of California; accompanied by a reproduction of a colour photograph of Marilyn wearing a pair of sunglasses in a similar style (printed recently) (2)
Provenance
One of two pairs included in ex lot 121, The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe, Christie's, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, 27 and 28 October, 1999
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