At £75 for the pair, they're not cheap – you could buy 25 greetings cards instead – but they are commissioned for the show, and will make you smile every time you sit down to dinner.
They were commissioned for the opening credits of the 1980 John Cassavetes film "Gloria," a sassy, violent mob movie set in New York City.
Many of the patterned designs are the same as were used in Roman and medieval times and are still called by the names of the families they were commissioned for.
The Yankees declined to discuss any elements of the celebration or the life-size statue that they have commissioned for the new stadium's museum that will depict Berra and Don Larsen after Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.
Philip Errington, director of Sotheby's specialist books and manuscripts said: "These artworks are unlike any others that we have sold, because they were commissioned for an exhibition at the House of Illustration in 2008 rather than contributed to raise money in a sale.
On the contrary, they commissioned covers for books like "Brave New World" and "The Catcher in the Rye" from the same artists who did the covers for books like "Strangler's Serenade" and "The Case of the Careless Kitten".
They commissioned a design for the Great Seal with a symbol recalling the first Israel, for they thought of themselves as crossing the deserts of Egypt en route to building a "city on the hill".
They just happened to have study in their back pocket (which they commissioned and paid for) that compares the "accuracy" of search results in three cities (Dallas, Miami, and San Diego) across different real-estate search services (Roost, Zillow, Trulia, Yahoo, and Google).
For their 40th wedding anniversary, they commissioned a cello concerto for a friend, having known him since the 1970s, when he played in the student orchestra at Harvard with their daughter Cathy.
