Original "Visit from St. Nicholas" Sells for $280K

Sale of handwritten Clement Moore classic announced on "the night before Christmas"

It was the night before Christmas and all through our house the only thing stirring was the hand guiding our mouse, as we scrambled to get this to you for your Christmas Day consideration:

An original copy of "A Visit from St. Nicholas," signed by author Clement Moore in 1860 (he wrote the story in 1822) sold at auction last week for $280-thousand. "The buyer, identified only as the chief executive officer of a media company, received the copy of the poem this month, just in time to read it to relatives and business associates at a holiday party in his Manhattan apartment, Heritage Auction Galleries president Greg Rohan said," according to Yahoo News this morning.

(We will not post an Auction Talk Radio podcast update this week, but count on hearing more about this in next week's episode.)