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Crosby collection sold at auction
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A RARE collection of Bing Crosby memorabilia was sold at a public
auction in Scotland yesterday.
Hundreds of the crooner's records, signed photographs and even one
of his pipes went under the auctioneer's hammer in Montrose.
The collection belonged to an elderly man from Fife, who handed it
on to Taylor's Auction Rooms in the Angus town when he moved to a
retirement home.
It is thought the pensioner purchased the memorabilia through a
Bing Crosby society.
Other items included records from the 1960s and 1970s and signed
photographs of wartime singer Vera Lynn.
A cap which once belonged to ...
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