Freddie Mercury's brown leather biker jacket, with T-shirt and jeans, 1980s

Freddie Mercury's brown leather biker jacket, with T-shirt and jeans, 1980s

A biker-style jacket of distressed brown leather with large zip fastenings to front, diagonal pockets and cuffs, one flap pocket with press-stud fastening to left side, integral belt at hips fastening with white metal buckle, red quilted lining, labelled ‘Liberto’; a white cotton T-shirt with red trim to neckline and arms, labelled ‘Collegiate Pacific, Made In U.S.A.’, and a pair of blue denim straight-leg jeans, the back of the waistband with leather ‘PETER GOLDING / LONDON’ label, and smaller black cloth label to right back pocket

(qty 3)

This jacket was a favourite of Freddie’s as evidenced by the number of photographs of him wearing it during the 1980s.

See lot 60, Polaroid no. 89 for a photo of Freddie wearing this jacket underneath a Japanese maple tree, and Polaroid no. 258 for a photo of Freddie wearing an identical T-shirt to that included in this lot.