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Bob Dylan fan shells out $2MILLION for one-of-a-kind draft of 'Like a Rolling Stone' in record sale of music manuscript

• The draft of the Bob Dylan song, one of the most popular of all time, is the only known surviving version of the 'transformative rock anthem'
• Dylan scrawled on four sheets of hotel letterhead stationery in pencil, with revisions, additions, notes and doodles, including a hat and a bird
• Dylan was 24 when he recorded 'Like a Rolling Stone' in 1965 about a debutante who becomes a loner after being cast down from upper-class social circles
• Sotheby's described the seller as a longtime Dylan fan from California 'who met his hero' and bought the manuscript directly from him

A draft of one of the most popular songs of all time, Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone', sold today for $2million, which the auction house called a world record for a popular music manuscript.
A working draft of the finished song in Dylan's own hand went to an unidentified bidder at Sotheby's. The selling price, $2.045million, included a buyer's premium.
The manuscript is 'the only known surviving draft of the final lyrics for this transformative rock anthem', Sotheby's said.

Bob Dylan, pictured here strumming his acoustic guitar and smoking a cigarette in 1961 in New York City, wrote 'Like a Rolling Stone' in 1965. The only known draft of the song sold at an auction today for $2million

The draft is written in pencil on four sheets of hotel letterhead stationery with revisions, additions, notes and doodles: a hat, a bird, an animal with antlers. The stationery comes from the Roger Smith Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Dylan was 24 when he recorded the song in 1965 about a debutante who becomes a loner when she's cast from upper-class social circles.

This file photo provided by Sotheby's shows a working draft of Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone', one of the most popular songs of all time

On this page of the manuscript, the lyrics and Dylan's revisions are clearly legible, along with many doodles

'How does it feel To be on your own', it says in his handwriting. 'No direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone.'

Scrawls seem to reflect the artist's experimentation with rhymes.

Dylan performs on stage in July 2012 during the 21st edition of the Vieilles Charrues music festival in Carhaix-Plouguer, France

Rock legend Dylan poses for a portrait with his Gibson Acoustic guitar in September 1961 in New York City

The name 'Al Capone' is scrawled in the margin, with a line leading to the lyrics 'Like a complete unknown.'
Another note says: '...dry vermouth, you'll tell the truth...'

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• McQueen kept the car until 1971 when he sold it to fellow actor Guy Williams who starred in Zoro and Lost in Space
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  $1.9 Million for Rare American Penny

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$1.4 Million for Rare English Book

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Antique Doll Sells for $300,000 and Sets New World Auction Record

March 30, 2014

ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — A new world record for an antique doll sold at auction was set this weekend when Theriault’s, a specialty auction house for antique childhood items, presented the highly sought after French character doll, circa 1916 by Albert Marque for bid. The doll realized $300,000 breaking the previous world record.
At the widely attended event held in Naples, FL, Theriault’s, the 40-year old firm based in Annapolis, MD, presented nearly 1,000 pieces from what had been the Puppenmuseum Stein am Rhein, a world renowned doll museum located in a small village of Switzerland. The main highlight of the collection, a French art character doll, by sculptor Albert Marque, was anxiously awaited. Bidding on the doll was fast paced and surrounded with dramatic tension as phone and floor bidders passionately laid claim to the doll. Ultimately the last bid was cast and the room broke out in applause.
The doll, which was wearing an original signed costume, was inscribed as #27 of the 100 models known to have ever been made. It is believed to have been first presented in 1916 at an exclusive exhibition at the fashion boutique of Parisian art patron Margaine- Lacroix.
“The Albert Marque bebe has long been considered the most coveted doll in the world by collectors. It is for good reason in that this renowned art doll blends every essential characteristic of greatness: rarity, artistic provenance, fashion, romance, and, most importantly, unparalleled beauty.” -Stuart Holbrook, President