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Liberace items to be auctioned

Saturday, Oct. 4, 1997 | 10:28 a.m.

Auctioneer Ron Rhoads is selling the Liberace collection of entrepreneur Bob Nye, an admirer of the flamboyant entertainer.

For sale are a 9-foot monogrammed Baldwin concert grand piano that Liberace played for the British royal family at the Albert Hall in London, and a van that the entertainer used to move the instrument. Nye paid $25,000 for the piano.

Nye, a Reading resident who in the late 1980s called himself "The Pennsylvania Dutch Howard Hughes," also is selling a Norwegian silver fox coat with silver Liberace monogram.

Liberace died on Feb. 4, 1987.

Nye is auctioning off other collectibles as well, including a 1954 London double-decker bus, a 1927 Wurlitzer pipe organ reportedly counted among the largest in the world, and a six-foot, 1,000-pound crystal chandelier.

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