Founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's Montblanc pen sold for S$461,500 at auction after 111 bids
- Source
- Channel News Asia - Latest News
- Source link
- https://www.channelnewsasia.com/living/lee-kuan-yew-montblanc-pen-sells-461500-auction-6323186
- Published
- 2026-08-17 05:22:18
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-08-17 06:05:35
- Category
- Procurement & Supply Chain News
- Geography
- Singapore
- Organisations
- —
- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
The pen, which is engraved with "SM Lee Kuan Yew", carried a pre-sale estimate of S$30,000 to S$50,000.
Procurement Relevance Gate
FAIL
— score 7.0/100 — evaluated 2026-08-17 06:05:35
Only geographic exposure matched — no substantive content indicator, so this cannot pass alone.
- geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"
Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
Not Assessed — this Signal did not pass the Procurement Relevance Gate, or is fictional/excluded test data.