The passion for politics of personalities such as Nicolae Ceaușescu, Mikhail Gorbachev, Yasser Arafat, Corneliu Vadym Tudor was also complemented by a passion for works of art and collectibles that added value to the homes or offices where they worked or were given during official meetings. , and was later kept in collections. Many of these objects are today in major museums of the world or in famous private collections. Exhibits from the collections of personalities who changed the face of history rarely appear at public auctions. In Romania next week, an impressive collection of objects belonging to Nicolae Ceaușescu, Mikhail Gorbachev, Yasir Arafat or Cornelius Vadym Tudor, iconic figures of recent history, will be auctioned at the Gentlemen’s Club event.

A special selection of 10 items from the Ceausescu collection is presented, which were the object of the family collection or decorated the premises of the Spring Palace. The cigar box presented to Nicolae Ceausescu by the president of Rolls-Royce, Baron Kenneth Keith, is impressive. Made of leather and exotic wood, decorated with a miniature bear cast in gilded bronze, it has a starting price of 300 euros. In the 1980s, Nicolae Ceausescu received from Mikhail Gorbachev a Russian tea set made of openwork silver, carefully decorated with enamel in the technique of partition embroidery, for six people. The initial price of the protocol gift is 600 euros and is accompanied by a RAAPPS certificate. Nicolae Ceausescu receives the sculpture as a gift from Yasser Arafat, the president of the Palestine Liberation Organization, probably in 1972 on the occasion of a meeting in Egypt. The Palestinian leader presents him with an exotic wooden figurine depicting a Semitic shepherd dog, the starting price of which at the auction on October 25 is 700 euros.

An exceptional protocol gift was a Longines Gents watch, which Iraqi President Saddam Hussein presented to politician Cornelius Vadym Tudor. The watch was a special order, produced in a limited edition, decorated with the coat of arms of Iraq and a note about the symbolic material introduced into the manufacturing alloy: “made from the weapons of the glorious martyrs of Saddam Hussein”. The collectible watch, which belonged to Cornelius Vadym Tudor, has a starting price of 600 euros.

The Gentleman’s Club auction will take place on Wednesday, October 25 at 7:00 p.m. at the Palatul Cesianu-Racoviță auction hall, as well as online on the Artmark Live platform. The event brings together impressive luxury watches, men’s artefacts, vintage cars, rare furniture, curiosities, weapons or Japanese stamps and is dedicated to those who appreciate sophistication, nobility and history, as well as those looking for a collectible gift. The 225 items up for auction are on display in the Cesianu-Rakovice Palace, providing a window into the defining moments of the 20th century, as well as an opportunity to better understand the political and social context of those times, with the opportunity to preserve history.

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