On Saturday, February 13th, 2021, ClockJack Productions in association with Julien’s Auctions presented The Cold War Relics Auction featuring The KGB Espionage Museum Collection in Beverly Hills, California.
The Cold War Relics Auction was be the world's first and most comprehensive auction event offering some of the rarest and most important artifacts from the U.S, Soviet Union and Cuba during the Cold War era ever to be assembled and offered at auction. The centerpiece of this special event was the entire collection from the KGB Espionage Museum in New York City. The auction featured the world's largest collection of KGB-specific spy equipment and authentic KGB artifacts from the Cold War.
This collection of exclusive items was be offered for the first time to the public at auction and was procured by world-renowned historian, collector and museum curator, Julius Urbaitis, who worked as the consultant for the 2019 Emmy and Golden Globe award winning HBO series, Chernobyl.
Over 400 lots were sold such as clandestine operative cameras, counter-intelligence detectors, morse code machines, airplane radars, voice recorders and official government documents, generating a total sale of over $1.2 Milion Dollars. Special highlights included…
“The Lipstick Gun”
“The Bulgarian Umbrella” (a replica of the deadly syringe umbrella believed to have been used to carry out the assassination of author Georgie Markov)
1,000 pound carved stone sculpture of Vladimir Lenin that stood in the KGB Headquarters in Kaliningrad
Women’s Purse with a Hidden Camera and Shutter Apparatus