History in Hand

engraving on Al Capone's cocktail shaker                                     Getty Images

Imagine not only owning but using and living among, on an everyday basis, items that were owned and used by some of history's most famous ~ and infamous ~ characters. Horatio Nelson's teapot, Winston Churchill's armchair, a glass jug from the RMS Titanic, art and artifacts including Orson Welles's working copy of the script for Citizen Kane. Such has been the life of collectors Stanley Seeger, an American, who died in 2011, and his English partner, Christopher Cone. On March 5 and 6, Sotheby's in London will be selling off a large part of their collection in an auction titled "1,000 Ways of Seeing" (story, slideshow): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2569473/Al-Capones-cocktail-shaker-claret-jug-Titanic-Amazing-auction-art-collectors-trove.html