Lot 127
127
Richard Burton

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Richard Burton
A gentleman's half-length fur coat of chocolate mink with claret satin lining; accompanied by a black and white photograph of a press still of Richard Burton wearing the coat with Elizabeth Taylor on their return to London from Paris for the London première of Burton's latest film Where Eagles Dare, 22nd January, 1969 -- 8½x6¼in. (21.5x16cm.); and three xeroxes of press clippings from that time referring to the coat (5)
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Photograph courtesy of the Press Association

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This coat was a birthday gift from Taylor to Burton in 1968 and was created to her specifications by Chombert, her furrier in Paris. According to the vendor Burton wore this coat often as the warmth it gave helped ease his frequent back pains.

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