‘Play It Again, Sam’ Piano May Go to Japan
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From Reuters
TOKYO — A Japanese coffee shop owner made a winning bid of 19-million yen ($152,000) for the piano played in the 1943 Humphrey Bogart movie “Casablanca,” his son said Friday.
Shinji Ichimura, 48, placed his bid for last month’s New York auction by Sotheby’s through a department store in the western Japanese city of Osaka. Ichimura owns a coffee shop named Casablanca.