Matthew Perry’s jumper among memorabilia sold at Friends anniversary auction

Memorabilia from the acceptable of Friends, including a jumper worn by precocious prima Matthew Perry, person been sold successful an auction marking 3 decades since the US sitcom archetypal aired.

Friends: The One With The 30th Anniversary Auction featured costumes worn by the main formed and notable impermanent stars, furnishings and props from Central Perk – wherever the radical often gathered connected screen.

The top-selling point of the auction was a studio-made reproduction of the Central Perk orangish sofa wherever “the pack spent galore celebrated scenes”, Julien’s Auctions said.

The prop sold for 29,250 dollars (£22,000) – astir 15 times its archetypal estimate.

Among the items exceeding its estimation was a teal, polo-style jumper worn by the quality Chandler Bing (Perry) successful an occurrence titled The One With The Holiday Armadillo.

It was worn during a country successful Central Perk wherever his fiance Monica Geller (Courteney Cox) confirms she won’t beryllium changing her past sanction to Bing, and again erstwhile Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow) brings her precocious mother’s Christmas candy crockery to their vacation party.

The jumper sold for 6,500 dollars (£4,900) – much than six times its estimate.

Other covering items from the show’s impermanent stars included the pinkish ensemble worn by Winona Ryder, who played an aged sorority sister successful The One With Rachel’s Big Kiss, which sold for 2,600 dollars (£1,900).

The achromatic formal garment worn by Bruce Willis successful The One With The Ring, wherever his caller woman Rachel tries to get him to unfastened up, sold for 3,250 dollars (£2,400).

A studio-made reproduction of the Geller Cup Trophy prop, from an occurrence titled The One With The Football, besides sold for 9,100 dollars (£6,800) – marking 30 times its archetypal estimate.

The sitcom primitively aired connected September 22 1994 until May 6 2004, spanning 10 seasons.

The amusement starred Jennifer Aniston arsenic Rachel Green, Matt LeBlanc arsenic Joey Tribbiani, David Schwimmer arsenic Ross Geller, Kudrow arsenic Phoebe Buffay, Cox arsenic Monica Geller and Perry arsenic Chandler Bing.

“Thirty years since its debut successful 1994, radical from each implicit the satellite are inactive falling successful emotion with Friends arsenic evidenced by the occurrence of today’s 30th day auction,” said David Goodman, main enforcement of Julien’s Auctions.

“Since the announcement of this auction celebration, involvement pivoted to an all-time precocious with thousands of bidders joining Julien’s and Warner Bros.

“Television’s nostalgic travel of Friends that culminated with each of the show’s iconic items being sold beyond their pre-sale estimates.”

The auction comes weeks earlier the one-year day of Perry’s death.

He died from the “acute effects of ketamine” connected October 28 astatine the property of 54.

A doc and a pistillate dubbed “the ketamine queen” volition look a associated proceedings successful March 2025 implicit his death.

The brace are among 5 radical charged, who are said to person taken vantage of the US histrion aft helium fell backmost into addiction past autumn.