Moustache combs and lyrics: The array of Freddie Mercury's items sold for £40m

Freddie used to compose some of the group’s iconic songs brought in the highest amount at £1.7m – a record for a composer’s piano.

Meanwhile a motley group of 29 feline ornaments, including a Puss in Boots cookie jar, had an estimate of £300-£500 but sold for £30,480 and a school book belonging to Freddy with an estimate of £800-£1,200 fetched an impressive £69,850.

A painting by Pablo Picasso with an estimated value of $120m will lead Sotheby’s auction of a collection belonging to the late philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau.

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