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Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's exhibits auction


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Gareth Corfield
Wed 17 Feb 2021 // 12:44 UTC
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A Soviet equivalent of Nazi Germany s Enigma cipher machine has sold for more than double its auction asking price – while a secret camera disguised as a pack of cigarettes went for nearly $20,000.
A Fialka M-125-3M 10-rotor cipher code machine complete with accessories sold for $22,400 at a US auction held over the weekend, trumping the device s $8,000-$12,000 estimated sale price.
The Fialka, and many other surveillance objects used in the Soviet era, came from the KGB Espionage Museum s collection. Based in New York, the museum collected and catalogued historical items relating to the Soviet spy force, the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti), and other items – until the coronavirus pandemic killed it off in October 2020, barely a year after it first opened. ....

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KGB Espionage Museum collection auction results exceed all estimates at Julien's Auctions


KGB Espionage Museum collection auction results exceed all estimates at Julien s Auctions
A Nazi German WW2 telephone wiretap device is displayed during an auction preview for The Cold War Relics Auction - Featuring the KGB Espionage Museum Collection at Julien s Auctions in Beverly Hills, California on February 8, 2021. The rare Nazi military phone tapping amplifier, one of only a few known to have existed, is estimated at $2,000 - 4,000. Frederic J. BROWN / AFP.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.- Julien’s Auctions held its headline-making The Cold War Relics Auction Featuring the KGB Espionage Museum Collection, the world’s first and most comprehensive auction event offering nearly 500 of the rarest and most important artifacts from the U.S, Soviet Union and Cuba during the Cold War era ever to be assembled and offered at auction, live in Beverly Hills and online at juliensauctions.com. ....

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