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Potter Chair sells for almost u00a320,000
Updated On: 09 August, 2009 09:33 AM IST | | Katy Brown
Writer J K Rowling also writes a letter to 'new owner of my chair', explaining how she was given four mismatched dining room chairs in 1995 and, because this one was the most comfortable, it ended up at her desk in front of her typewriter
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J K Rowling just after she released her first book Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone
Writer J K Rowling also writes a letter to 'new owner of my chair', explaining how she was given four mismatched dining room chairs in 1995 and, because this one was the most comfortable, it ended up at her desk in front of her typewriter
A simply wizard chair that caused a stir amongst magicians and muggles alike sold for almost u00a320,000 after going under the hammer last month.
The chair that an impoverished JK Rowling sat on while writing the first two books in the Harry Potter series, The Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets, sold for u00a319,555.00 on eBay.
The hand-painted chair was originally brought in 2002 for u00a315,000 at a charity event, called Chair-ish a Child, which was held in aid of the NSPCC. As part of the auction, which was hosted by Joanna Lumley, an array of famous people all donated chairs important to them.
Unusually, Rowling, who is normally protective of items connected to her wizard creation, donated the 1930s oak chair that she sat on as she created the Harry Potter phenomenon.
Matthew Ford, the art dealer who organised the sale of the chair, comments: "It's a chair you'd pay a tenner for in a junk shop but, historically, it's the most important chair in Muggledom, and probably one of the most exceptional and rare pieces of Harry Potter memorabilia ever likely to be offered for sale.
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