'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
The original Tiffany lamps that lined the bar at Eddie Rickenbacker's pub in San Francisco are heading to a New York City auction house, where they are expected to bring more than $2 million, Christie's said Thursday.
"They were intertwined with all the high balls and low balls and the martini glasses and they were secured by a chain around which each had a padlock," he said.
He purchased his first Tiffany lamp at a 1993 auction, and kept them safe using "a low-tech security system," said Josh Holdeman, Christie's director of 20th century art, who met the bar owner in 2004.
