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Death’s chess set pawned at Bergman sale

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THE chess board used in Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 movie the Seventh Seal was sold at auction for 1 million Swedish crowns yesterday, said auction house Bukowski’s. It said 337 items belonging to Bergman, who died in 2007 at the age of 89, were auctioned in Stockholm for a total of 18 million crowns - about ten times the starting price.

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