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Rare Chanel jewelry given to New York socialite Susan Gutfreund by designer Karl Lagerfeld himself is expected to fetch over $163,000 as part of $7.4M auction of her belongings, five years after her financier husband s death
Christie s 106-piece haul of designer haul of Chanel jewelry will be up for auction from January 14 to 29
The items are being put up for auction by Manhattan socialite Susan, who was friends with Lagerfeld and amassed many pieces of now-vintage jewelry
They were created during some of [Lagerfeld s] most prolific years at Chanel, and some are one-of-a-kind
The auction is also set to include decor from the 12,000-square-foot Fifth Avenue apartment that Susan sold for $53 million after her husband s death