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Rilke’s Briefcase, Writing Implements & Inkpot | A Past Auction Find

Rilke's briefcase, writing implements and inkpot, from the collection of the poet Regina Ullmann - Sotheby - 2024
Image (slightly edited) from the Sotheby’s listing

Sold back in June 2011 for £27,500GBP.

“…comprising the leather travelling briefcase (c.24 x 33cms), leather wallet containing Rilke’s wooden pen-holder, nib and ivory pen-knife, and a glass ink-pot; together with an autograph letter by Rilke signed (“Rainer Maria Rilke”), to Herr Keller of the publishers Insel-Verlag, about Ullmann’s poems “Erntetag”, “Der Knecht” and “Vor der Ernte”, and enclosing a corrected proof of Ullmann’s poems, 2 pages, 4to, with an autograph envelope addressed to Ullmann, Munich, 13 January 1919; a few ink stains (on) the briefcase.”

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