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Anyone wanting to walk in the shoes of fallen financier Bernard Madoff canada goose outlet online was in luck Saturday: Thousands of belongings from his New York City penthouse, including his used shoes, went on the auction block.

An anonymous bidder paid the highest price of the auction $550,000 for a 10.5 carat diamond engagement ring that belonged to Madoff’s wife, Ruth. The winning bid topped the $300,000 minimum pre sale estimate.

The man who became a symbol of greed and deceit on Canada Goose Online Wall Street also had a lavish collection of watches. One of his vintage steel Rolex «Moon cheap canada goose uk Phase» watches sold for $67,500, topping a $60,000 minimum estimate.

The sale started canada goose outlet store Saturday morning at the Sheraton New York canada goose outlet uk Hotel Towers, with an auctioneer from Texas based Gaston canada goose uk black friday Sheehan rattling off lots at a tongue twisting speed all day and into the evening.

Buyers responded at fever pitch.

They raised their Canada Goose sale hands to signal a bid accompanied by bloodcurdling shouts from bid spotters marking a winning price.

Their swaggering style as if herding bulls instead of selling Madoff’s artsy ones seemed appropriate for an auction of the belongings of a Wall Street trader who cherished the winning bull in every form. He bought statues and paintings of them and even named his boats «Bull,» »Sitting Bull» and «Little Bull.»

A leather bull foot stool including a tail that had broken off sold for $3,300, against a pre sale estimate of $250 to $360.

While many of the more than 400 lots included luxury items, the Madoffs’ penthouse canada goose outlet canada did have touches of culture.

A 1917 Steinway grand piano from their living room went for $42,000 six times the minimum estimate Canada Goose Parka of $7,000. The buyer was an 81 year old Long Island real estate executive.

«I’ve got loads of pianos, but this one canada goose outlet sale has history it’ll make an interesting conversation piece,» said John Rodger, an amateur pianist who will keep the Steinway in his home canada goose outlet online uk in East Islip.

An oil painting by the late American artist Frederick Carl Frieseke sold for $47,500, against a pre sale estimate of $20,000 to $45,000.

The Manhattan sale is the last auction in New York of Madoff belongings. A third and final auction is to be held in Florida to sell off items from a Palm Beach home that went for more than $5.5 canada goose outlet in usa million last canada goose outlet black friday month.

Madoff was arrested two years ago and cheap canada goose quickly admitted his scheme. Investigators said he used billions of dollars in cash from new investors to pay old ones, cheating charities, celebrities and institutional investors. marshals seized everything in the Madoffs’ Manhattan apartment and Long Island beach house: worn socks, new monogrammed boxer shorts, Italian velveteen slippers bearing the initials «BLM» in gold embroidery. All of it was being sold with morbid fascination for mundane articles from the couple’s daily life that also were on the block, from bed linens, clothing, cookware and luggage to intimate items like cuticle scissors and bottles of shampoo.

Valued at $75 to $110, the lot with the slippers included Ruth Madoff’s monogrammed shirt. A young man paid $6,000 for all of it, saying he’ll never be able to wear the slippers because his shoe size is 13; Madoff wore a size 8. He declined to give his name.

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Besides bulls and fine watches, cheap canada goose Madoff loved shoes. He owned about 250 canada goose coats pairs, many never worn made in Italy, France, Belgium and England.

Ten pairs of Madoff’s used designer shoes sold for $900, against a minimum of $250.

The canada goose outlet shop disgraced 72 year old trader is behind bars for life in a North Carolina prison, and his wife was ordered to leave their homes.

Despite their vast wealth, the Madoffs didn’t seem to make much room for house guests.

The auction included their early 19th century bed with fabric hangings and «intense sun fading,» at a pre auction estimate of $8,000 to $11,400.

«Just $500?» the incredulous canada goose factory outlet auctioneer, Bob Sheehan, said of the first bid, adding, «This was the only bed in the whole house, I’m not kidding! $500? My God, it’s not a pullout.».