With Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Bronson Pinchot, Saul Rubinek, Chris Penn, Michael Rapaport, and Brad Pitt.

NEWYORKER: True Romance

Prizes like the mermaid went to a small group of buyers assembled by Ben Rapaport, a Reston, Va. authority on tobacciana collecting and the author of five books on antique pipes and related topics.

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