Former Prime Minister George Borg Olivier’s personal desk was today auctioned for €25,000.
The desk was one of 307 items belonging to the late Dr and Mrs Borg Olivier which went under the hammer at the couple’s 19th century house in Borg Olivier Street, Sliema. It was bought by a Labour MP Anton Refalo.
The auction, led by auctioneer Pierre Grech Pillow from Obelisk, lasted five hours and ranged from paintings, furniture, figurines to chinaware.
The prices obtained ranged from €100 to around €38,000 for a bookcase.
Some 200 people made bids on site, others bid by telephone.
Those present included Heritage Malta specialists who were representing the agency to buy auction items they considered enhanced the national collection at the “hammer price”. That included a gift to Dr Borg Olivier by an Apollo crew which went to the moon.