The first New Jersey license of Frank Sinatra, known for hits “Strangers in the Night” and “I’ll Never Smile Again,” was sold at an auction for almost $16,000.
It has been a big week for the selling of musical icon’s possessions. On June 24, Bob Dylan’s manuscript of “Like a Rolling Stone” was sold for about $2 million as reported by The CelebrityCafe.com. Then, Frank Sinatra’s old New Jersey license was sold to an undisclosed buyer in an auction that ended on June 26.
The license, signed by a then 19-year-old Sinatra was issued to a misspelled Francis “Sintra,” when Sinatra lived at Garden Street in Hoboken, New Jersey, as reported by the Associated Press. The buyer of the license also gained a 1940 letter written by someone who had a collision with Sinatra, and was demanding that the New Jersey State Commissioner take away Sinatra’s driving privileges until the driver was compensated.
This license was issued before Sinatra had cracked into the music scene that he would eventually come to dominate. That break came later, according to Rolling Stone, when Sinatra and three instrumentalists won Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour as the Hoboken Four.
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