CD: London by Frank Sinatra 4 CD Box Set - from the Nancy Sinatra Estate

Provenance: From the Estate of Nancy Barbato Sinatra (March 25, 1917 - July 13, 2018)

Nancy Sinatra Sr. was the first of Frank Sinatra’s four wives and the mother of the legendary singer’s three children.

Nancy Sinatra Sr. was 17-year-old Nancy Rose Barbato, the dark-haired daughter of a Jersey City, N.J., plastering contractor, when she met a skinny, 18-year-old fledgling singer from Hoboken in the summer of 1934 while they were both vacationing on the Jersey Shore. “I was a poor, lonely and discouraged kid when I met her,” Frank Sinatra told American Weekly in 1952. “In Nancy, I found beauty, warmth and understanding.” They continued dating and the following summer he took her to see Bing Crosby at a theater in downtown Jersey City. “Bing had always been his hero,” Nancy recalled in “Frank Sinatra: An American Legend,” her daughter Nancy’s 1995 book. “ ‘Someday,’ he told me on the way home, ‘that’s gonna be me up there.’ ”

Frank and Nancy were married Feb. 4, 1939 in a Catholic church in Jersey City where they set up housekeeping in a three-room apartment. The frugal young bride bargain-hunted at the grocery store and sewed her own clothes; she once cut up one of her dresses and used the material to make a bow tie for Frank that would match what he planned to wear on a singing job. During their early years, she later said, she made all of his bow ties.

As newlyweds, Nancy was working as a $25-a-week secretary and Frank was working as a $25-a-week singing waiter and master of ceremonies at the Rustic Cabin, a roadhouse in Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

Several months after the wedding, trumpeter Harry James heard Frank sing and hired him to be the featured male vocalist in his new orchestra.

As Frank’s singing career took off and then soared — he was named top male band vocalist by Billboard in 1941 — Nancy gave birth to their children: Nancy in 1940, Frank Jr. in 1944 and Christina in 1948.

The Sinatras were divorced in 1951. Nancy never remarried. She has been described in the press as having remained “remarkably loyal” to her ex-husband.

In his later life, according to a 1998 story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Frank was welcome in Nancy’s home and he was known to drop by at odd hours, stoke the fire in the fireplace and fall asleep on the sofa.

As the 20th-century music icon became progressively more ill in the year before his death, Nancy reportedly visited him several times.

Their son, Frank Sinatra Jr., died in 2016. Nancy Sinatra Sr. is survived by her sister, her daughters and various grandchildren and great-grandchildren. - Excerpted from the Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2018

After Mrs. Sinatra's passing in July 2018, the trustees charged with executing the estate engaged the services of Jason Preston Art Advisory & Appraisals to appraise the tangible personal property for estate tax purposes. After receiving the completed appraisal, Mrs. Sinatra's trustees turned to Jason for his assistance in the disposition of items not retained by Mrs. Sinatra's heirs.

Many items on offer are from Nancy Sinatra Sr.’s early married life with Frank Sinatra including a significant number of books published in the first half of the 20th century. Mrs. Sinatra’s collection includes a large quantity of fine silver and silver-plate, porcelain, glass, jewelry, fine art, furniture, decorative art, books and collectibles from her long life.

Items from Mrs. Sinatra’s estate are being offered for sale through Jason Preston Art Advisory & Appraisals’ eBay stores Preston & Co. and Outbound Books & Media. Additional items will be offered at public auction in late 2019 (venues and dates to be announced). New items are posted on a weekly basis, so please follow our eBay stores and register keyword notifications for “Nancy Sinatra Sr.”

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