150-STRONG SWEDISH COLLECTION TO BE SOLD

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Almost all of a Swedish museum's 150 classics - which have been built up from a collection originally started more than 50 years ago - are to be auctioned on 19 October.

150-strong Swedish collection to be sold

150-strong Swedish collection to be sold

The cars form part of the Simrishamn's Autoseum and are being sold because the collection's owner is to retire, prompting the museum's closure in December.

Exhibits range from a 1840 Kalesch carriage to a 2012 VW Scirocco, and a full list of the vehicles being auctioned will be published online on 15 September. The sale will also include a large amount of automobilia.

The vehicles were originally part of a collection founded by collector Rutger von Essen in 1963, which was based in Skokloster in the northern part of Sweden. In 2007 the collection was purchased by Autoseum and moved across the country to its site, where they have helped attract more than 100,000 visitors over the past eight years.

The cars are being sold by Gothenburg-based Gotesborgs Auktionsverk. Preview day is 16 October. Peder Lamm, auction spokeman said: 'It's an incredible collection.'

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