COHN ROY Gold pocket knife mechanical pencil and memo pad ca

Sale 2310 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 3,360

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

INCLUDING A GIFT INSCRIBED FROM MOE DALITZ COHN, ROY. Gold pocket knife, mechanical pencil, and memo pad case inscribed to Cohn, all stamped 14K. Folding pocket knife and key with gold case and stainless steel blade, 4 x 3/4 inches open, engraved "Roy," made in Latama, Italy * Working mechanical pencil engraved "Roy," 4 1/4 inches long * Memorandum pad case, 2 x 3 inches closed, stamped by the maker Van Cleef & Arpels of New York, small dent in the front cover; engraved "RMC" on front cover, engraved inside cover "April 1958. Dear Roy, You and us against the world. With all our love and best wishes, Averill & Moe & Suzy." Np, 1958 and nd

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Moe Dalitz was a renowned mobster turned Las Vegas mogul. He married Averill Knigge in 1953, and their daughter Suzanne was born in 1957. The inscription is dated at around the same time as Cohn invested on Dalitz's for-profit Sunshine Hospital in Las Vegas. The two later had a falling-out; Dalitz was later quoted as saying he "would spend five years in jail to put Roy Cohn there for one day" (see The Autobiography of Roy Cohn, page 173).
We here at Swann don't know much about precious metals, but we are confident that this personal gift from Dalitz to Cohn will be worth more than its weight in gold.