Items for “KGB Spy Museum” sold by auction (photos)

On Saturday, Julien’s Auctions held an auction titled “Cold War Antiquities”, selling the KGB Spy Museum in New York after closing last year.

Julien’s Auctions website described the “Cold War Antiquities” auction, which includes the KGB Spy Museum’s collection, as “the most comprehensive auction in the world in which the rarest and most important artifacts from the United States, the Soviet Union and Cuba from the Cold War era are displayed.”

According to the site, the most expensive item in the auction was a women’s handbag with a hidden camera built into it, and it was sold for $ 32,000, after its initial value during its launch was between two thousand and three thousand dollars.

In total, more than 400 items were auctioned, from miniature cameras, disguised audio recording devices and household items, to a document in Ernesto Che Guevara’s handwriting, which sold for $ 16,000.

The bids were launched in Beverly Hills, California, in the southwest, but the auction could be entered online in real time as well.

A Soviet “spy currency”, with a face value of one ruble and containing a secret storage box, was sold for $ 25,650, after specialists expected that its final price would not exceed 200 or 300 dollars.

The Violet encoder, which is capable of placing 590 quadrillion numbers in combination, was sold to an unnamed buyer for $ 22,400.

As for a miniature camouflaged camera in the form of a John Player Special cigarette case, it sold for $ 19,200, compared to the initial estimate of its value between $ 600 and $ 800.

The “KGB Spy Museum”, which opened in Manhattan in early 2019, closed last October due to the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

Source: “TASS”

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