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'Lost' poem by Anne Frank sold at auction

November 23, 2016 11:03
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Lee Harpin,

Lee Harpin

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A handwritten poem by Anne Frank has sold at auction for £119,000 - more than four times its reserve price.

The sale, to an unnamed online bidder, took just two minutes at Bubb Kuyper auction house in the Dutch city of Haarlem.

“Over the last 40 years, only four or five documents signed by the teenager have gone under the hammer,” Thijs Blankevoort, the auction house’s co-director, said.

The poem, which is dated March 28, 1942, is being auctioned at the Bubb Kuyper auction house in the western Dutch town of Haarlem and is expected to sell for around £45,000.