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Lehman Brothers Signs Sell for $111,700 in London
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Two signs from the London headquarters of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. sold at auction today for a total of 70,800 pounds ($111,700) as collectors and souvenir hunters snapped up remains of the collapsed bank.
The metal sign from outside Lehman’s U.K. office, valued at as much as 3,000 pounds, sold for 42,050 pounds at Christie’s International in London. A metal plaque commemorating the opening of the Lehman offices by the then U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown on April 5, 2004, was estimated to sell for between 1,000 pounds and 1,500 pounds. It fetched 28,750 pounds.