Elvis auction gets $17.5K for a rocking chair, $27.5K for a ring

The Associated Press

7 years ago

A street memorial is lit during a candlelight vigil for Elvis Presley in front of Graceland, Presley’s Memphis home, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, in Memphis, Tenn., as fans from around the world gathered for the 40th anniversary of his death. Presley died Aug. 16, 1977. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)

In this April 30, 1956, file photo, Elvis Presley is shown at the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. One of the first stages Elvis sang on has been refinished during the renovation of the auditorium at his elementary school in Tupelo, Miss., the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported Friday, July 21, 2017. Elvis Presley Birthplace employee Judy Schumpert says the rock ‘n’ roll king’s time at Lawhon was instrumental in helping him pursue music as a boy. Schumpert says Presley’s fifth-grade teacher, Oleta Grimes, entered him in his first talent competition. (AP Photo/File)

FILE- This Aug. 15, 2012 photo shows candles reflected in a photo of Elvis Presley at a memorial set up by a fan at a candlelight vigil at Graceland, Presley’s Memphis, Tenn. home. Friends and fans of late singer and actor Elvis Presley are descending on Memphis, Tennessee, for Elvis Week, the annual celebration of his life and career. It coincides with the 40th anniversary of the passing of Presley, who died on Aug. 16, 1977. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A leather rocking chair from the Jungle Room at Elvis Presley’s Graceland has sold at auction for $17,500.

Graceland says in a news release the chair was among 271 items from third-party collectors offered at the auction held Saturday at The Guest House at Graceland in Memphis during a celebration of Presley’s birthday.

The highest bids included a diamond and platinum ring that sold for $27,500. The ring had been gifted to Presley’s girlfriend, actress Linda Thompson. Other items included a globe-shaped, free-standing wooden bar from Presley’s Beverly Hills, California, home that sold for $22,500, and Presley’s 1922 Colt “Police Positive” .32-caliber revolver that brought $20,000.

A cigar box for Presley’s personal items sold for $5,000.

Another auction at Graceland will be held on Aug. 12.