Jackie O's Pearls Make Over the Odds at Bonhams

A triple strand simulated pearl necklace once owned by America's First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis has sold for £30,000, as one of the highlights of Bonhams new and innovative Pioneers of Popular Culture sale at the inaugural Vintage at Goodwood Festival. The auction realised a remarkable £346,710 in total, with 97% sold by value.

The sale, which celebrates all that is cool and iconic from the period 1940–1990, also featured two other pieces of jewellery owned by Jackie Kennedy Onassis, which she wore in the 1960s: a pair of simulated pearl and diamond ear clips, which fetched £15,600 and a simulated pearl necklace, which made £6,000.

Top prices were also paid for two Jaguar cars: a 1962 Jaguar E-type Series 1 was the top selling lot of the day selling for £60,000 and a 1961 Jaguar Mk2 made £25,200. A further highlight, after a fierce and lengthy bidding war, was a c. 1948 Curtis Wright Travel Trailer which beat it's pre-sale estimate £5,000 - £10,000 to sell for £13,800. A rare ape costume from "2001: A Space Odyssey", 1968 sold for an impressive £18,000.

The sale was the culmination of the first Vintage at Goodwood Festival, a three day event celebrating all that is best about British popular culture in music, fashion, art, design and film. It is the brainchild of fashion designers Wayne and Gerardine Hemmingway in conjunction with Lord March.

Jon Baddeley of Bonhams comments "For the inaugural auction at Vintage at Goodwood, the Pioneers of Popular culture sale was a great success, with well over 50% of the buyers being new to Bonhams. We've certainly learnt what proves popular to this new Goodwood crowd and will cater next year's auction to meet this demand. We'll definitely be back here in 2011!"

For further press information please contact Leonora Oldfield on 0207 468 5874 or leonora.oldfield@bonhams.com / press@bonhams.com

Notes for Editors

Bonhams
Bonhams, founded in 1793, is one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. The present company was formed by the merger in November 2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son and Neale UK. In August 2002, the company acquired Butterfields, the principal firm of auctioneers on the West Coast of America. Today, Bonhams offers more sales than any of its rivals, through two major salerooms in London: New Bond Street, and Knightsbridge, and a further five throughout the UK. Sales are also held in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Carmel, New York and Boston in the USA; Toronto, Canada; and France, Monaco, Australia, Hong Kong and Dubai. Bonhams has a worldwide network of offices and regional representatives in 25 countries offering sales advice and valuation services in 57 specialist areas. By the end of 2009, Bonhams had become UK market leaders in ten key specialist collecting areas. For a full listing of upcoming sales, plus details of Bonhams specialist departments, go to www.bonhams.com .

Vintage at Goodwood Festival
Vintage at Goodwood Festival is going to be the place to go this summer – the first festival to unite fashion and music, Vintage at Goodwood will be set in the rolling hills of the beautiful Goodwood Estate and will celebrate the 40s through to the 80s in fashion, music, arts, design and culture. There will be the first Festival Vintage High Street housing an IWC Schaffhausen clock tower, a Fortnum and Mason tea shop, an Oxfam store and a collectibles market where you'll be able to bag pieces from YSL, Givenchy and Pucci.

www.vintageatgoodwood.com