The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Sotheby’s Auction Materials Collection.

SOTHEBY'S INC. [JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS],.

Item Number: 107818

New York: Sotheby's, 1996.

Fine collection of materials from the April 1996 Sotheby’s Auction of the Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Materials include the original 584-page auction catalog featuring full color photographs, four addendums and a list of properties with abbreviated descriptions, two commemorative books chronicling the auction with photographs, invoices and auction results, original bidder panels and forms. A nice collection.

Held between April 23rd and 26th, 1996, the Sotheby's auction of the Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis closed with over $34 million in sales. Highlights of the auction included sales of $2.6 million for a 40-carat Lesotho diamond engagement ring from Aristotle Onassis, $1.4 million for a desk used by President John F. Kennedy to sign the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963, $453,500 for an oak rocking chair used by Kennedy in the Oval Office, and a $415,000 for a kunzite and diamond ring bought by Kennedy as a gift for his wife.