Eurovision Winners ABBA – Memorabilia auction in Sweden on August 10th and 11th. Photograph courtesy of spyhollywood.com

Two rare ABBA recordings along with clogs, clippings and memorabilia will go under the hammer in Stockholm in August.

The auction house in Stockholm – Auktionsverk – will sell over 25,000 ABBA items on August 10 and 11 to  and expect to fetch some 830,000 kronor (95,000 euros, $123,000).

There are some rerities included in the auction that include two maxi singles that ABBA recorded in Swedish but never released commercially: “Hovas Vittne”, made for their manager Stig Anderson’s 50th birthday party in 1981, of which there exist around 200 copies; and “Saang till Goerel”, a song recorded for their record company assistant Goerel Hanser’s 30th birthday in 1979, of which there are only some 50 copies.

“Hovas Vittne” has an opening bid price of 25,000 kronor (2,850 euros, $3,700), and “Saang till Goerel” 15,000 kronor.

Auction curator Beata af Donner said “The ABBA Collection by Thomas Nordin, is the largest collection dedicated to the iconic disco group to be sold at auction and comprises objects collected since 1974 when ABBA burst onto the international scene winning the Eurovision contest with their song Waterloo”.

Nordin, an ABBA fan since the age of 9 has collected rare items and unusual merchandise from around the world. These range from  ABBA clogs made exclusively for the American market, rare ABBA soaps and dolls, a large collection of clippings and books, and original posters.

Abba dominated the 1970s disco scene with their flamboyant costumes, kitsch dance routines and catchy melodies such as “Waterloo, Dancing Queen and Gimme Gimme Gimme”.

Now is your chance to own a piece of that Abba history for yourself.

Author/Website co-founder and Editor in Chief Garrett Mulhall

Source – France 24 and Eurovision Ireland