A collection of 1,500 items owned by Freddie Mercury, including stage costumes and handwritten lyrics are to be sold at auction. Mercury built up the vast collection of items for over 30 years at his home in West London.

A highlight of the sale will be Freddie Mercury's handwritten working lyrics to We Are The Champions, including harmonies and chords, written across nine pages is expected to sell for £300,000
The unseen working lyrics to Killer Queen, written in 1974, are expected to fetch £50,000-70,000.
The 1,500 objects curated by Freddie Mercury, ranging from 19th-century French paintings to Mercury's bedside telephone, will be sold off by Mary Austin.

She said: “For many years now, I have had the joy and privilege of living surrounded by all the wonderful things that Freddie sought out and so loved.
“But the years have passed, and the time has come for me to take the difficult decision to close this very special chapter in my life.
It was important to me to do this in a way that I felt Freddie would have loved, and there was nothing he loved more than an auction. Freddie was an incredible and intelligent collector who showed us that there is beauty and fun and conversation to be found in everything."

The assortment of art and artefacts is currently valued at £6 million, although Sotheby’s experts are still in the process of evaluating the vast collection of decorations and mementos

The main exhibition will be at Sotheby’s London gallery in August, with all items from Garden Lodge on display, and closing on 5th September. It will be followed by six auctions in September.

Here are the auction dates

As per BBC, Austin will donate some of the proceeds of the sale to the Mercury Phoenix Trust and the Elton John Aids Foundation.

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