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Beverly Hills, CA, United States
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The Cold War Relics Auction
Julien's Auctions is proud to present "The Cold War Relics Auction Featuring The KGB Espionage Museum Collection", an auction taking place in Beverly Hills and live online at Julien's Live on Saturday, February 13th, 2021.
"The Cold War Relics Auction Featuring The KGB Espionage Museum Collection" is the world's first and most comprehensive auction event offering some of the rarest and most important artifacts from the U.S, Soviet Union and Cuba during the Cold War era ever to be assembled and offered at auction. The history memorabilia event of the season will take place on Saturday, February 13, 2021 at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills.
At the centerpiece of this special event is the entire collection from the KGB Espionage Museum in New York City. The auction will feature the world's largest collection of KGB-specific spy equipment and authentic KGB artifacts from the Cold War.
Over 400 lots will be on offer such as clandestine operative cameras, counter-intelligence detectors, morse code machines, airplane radars, voice recorders and official government documents.
Special highlights include a gun designed to look like a tube of lipstick, a secret hotel-room listening device or 'bug' from 1964, a rare Soviet version of the Enigma code cipher machine known as the Fialka, a replica of the deadly syringe umbrella believed to have been used to carry out the assassination of Bulgarian author Georgie Markov, a vintage one-thousand-pound carved stone sculpture of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin that stood in the headquarters of the KGB in Kaliningrad, a purse with a hidden camera and shutter apparatus, a machine used by border guards to detect people hiding in vehicles, a German WWII phone tap device, an original steel door from a former KGB prison hospital, a unique portable wire recording machine, and a vintage railroad 'Infected Area 'warning sign.
Auction Curator:
Mitch Kaba
Fine & Decorative Art, Prints, Books, Photographs, Acetate Films and Audio Recordings.Lot Number: Lowest
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