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All Remaining Items From the Gore Vidal Estate Sale on 1st Dibs

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Daniel Lavery
Sep 06, 2022
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For something like three years I had the 1st Dibs page for Gore Vidal’s “Personal Victorian Walnut Writing Desk” bookmarked, and for every few months or so I’d check it again just in case they lowered the price from $10,250 to $500. They never did, and it sold for the asking price earlier this year, which is fine, I got a different desk that was neither…

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