The plate features a handwritten setlist by Cobain himself, from Nirvana’s April 23, 1990 set at the 9:30 Club in Washington.
SOLD for 22,400! A used paper plate with a #Nirvana set list handwritten by #KurtCobain at the 9:30 nightclub in Washington, D.C., on April 23, 1990.
SOLD TODAY in our “Music Icons” #memorabilia #auction @HardRockCafeNYC and online at https://t.co/TiME89MqlX! #1990s #90s pic.twitter.com/MzumBjq15G
— Juliens Auctions (@JuliensAuctions) May 18, 2019
The item was sold by Julien’s Auctions, a celebrity-centred auction house, at a Music Icons event they held at the Hard Rock Cafe at New York’s Times Square on Saturday.
Another item that was on the auction block was one of Kurt Cobain’s cardigans, which sold for an incredible USD$75,000. Nirvana fans will recognise the cardigan from photos surrounding the band’s 1993 album In Utero, released only a few months before Cobain’s death in April 1994.
SOLD for $75,000! A cardigan worn by #KurtCobain in his last photoshoot with #Nirvana taken in the summer of 1993 with photographer Jesse Frohman. SOLD TODAY in our “Music Icons” #memorabilia #auction @HardRockCafeNYC and online at https://t.co/TiME89MqlX! https://t.co/ahsXX3qbxg pic.twitter.com/mZmHg7wtig
— Juliens Auctions (@JuliensAuctions) May 18, 2019
Julien’s Auctions say: “Jesse Frohman was commissioned to shoot Nirvana for the album cover of In Utero, released on September 21, 1993.
“The shoot was meant to take place in Central Park in New York City, but due to Cobain being sick just hours before, the shoot was relocated to the basement of the hotel where the band was staying.
“Cobain showed up three hours late to the shoot and immediately asked for a bucket due to his nausea.”
Other items that were snagged in the auction over the weekend include the silk shirt worn by Freddie Mercury in the 1991 video for ‘These Are The Days Of Our Lives’ ($54,400), a pair of prescription glasses worn by Elton John on the cover of his 1995 album Made In England ($16,000) and a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Custom Reissue owned and played by former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley, which went under the hammer for $19,200.
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