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Gustavo Egusquiza knew as soon as he opened the sales brochure. “I saw it, and I knew I wanted it,” she says of Diane Keaton’s nail clippers. “It was something she could use every day, so it was a very small part of Diane’s life.
Egusquiza, a travel journalist and consultant from Bilbao, Spain, admits to being a little famous and is making memorabilia that includes a Whoopi Goldberg teapot and a statuette from Larry King’s office.
Egusquiza said: “There were some amazing things for Diane that I would have bought. But for me, I didn’t want red carpet stuff. I wanted something very intimate, and I think this is something very romantic, with her fingerprints on it.”
They had prepared the nail clippers — which came in a “sorted box” with lots of hairpins and safety pins — to sell for more than their $200 estimate. “But I didn’t expect it to be so popular.”
An online auction at Bonhams in New York, earlier this week, passed the $200 mark, and passed $600. “Then I had a little doubt, I didn’t expect it to reach that high,” he says. “But I wanted it, and I didn’t care to pay.”
At the end of the box – more 2182 – cost him $960 (£715) plus buyer’s fees. He could not look at or touch the cuttings as he waited for them to be shipped from New York to Bilbao.
He said: “In the end, it’s money that will come later. “I’ve loved him since a long time.
Keaton’s favorite movies are The Godfather and Annie Hall.
Egusquiza, who contacted the Guardian after announcing the sale, does not use nail clippers or pins.
“The box will appear in my office,” he says. It will join his collection which includes a white ceramic teapot from Goldberg, an Eagle of the Sioux from Larry King, and a signed Chris Levine portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
Egusquiza says most of his friends and family agree to spend about $1,000 on Keaton’s nail clippers. “They love it,” he says. “I’ve been collecting things since I was a teenager, I don’t think they think I’m crazy.
