Sinatra’s first license fetches $15K at auction
In this undated photo provided by LegendaryAuctions.com, Frank Sinatra’s 1934 New Jersey Driver’s License is photographed. The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. reports at that the yellowed, text-only license will be offered at auction on Tuesday, June 24, 2014 by Boston-based RR Auction. (AP Photo/Legendary Auctions.com)
Performer Frank Sinatra appears on the stage of the Westchester Premier Theater in Tarrytown, N.Y., during the opening night of his act with Dean Martin. Sinatra's first New Jersey driver's license has sold for $15,757 at auction. The yellowed, text-only 1934 license was issued, typo and all, to Francis Sintra, 841 Garden Street, Hoboken, New Jersey. The license was signed by the then-19-year-old a year before Sinatra got his first big break in the music industry. (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine, file)
TRENTON, N.J. — Frank Sinatra’s first New Jersey driver’s license has sold for $15,757 at auction.
The yellowed, text-only 1934 license was issued, typo and all, to Francis Sintra, 841 Garden Street, Hoboken, New Jersey.
The license was signed by the then-19-year-old a year before Sinatra got his first big break in the music industry.
His eyes, of course, are recorded as blue. His weight was 130 pounds.
Boston-based RR Auction didn’t disclose the buyer.
The deal also included a 1940 letter to the state Commissioner of Motor Vehicles from the lawyer of a man who’d been involved in a car crash with Sinatra, insisting Sinatra’s driving privileges be revoked until he pays up.
