Casablanca 'Rick's Cafe' Piano
- Maker
- Warner Bros. / Casablanca
- Year
- 1942
- Rank
- 30 of 100
Casablanca 'Rick's Cafe' Piano
Casablanca 'Rick's Cafe' Piano by Warner Bros. / Casablanca (1942) is ranked 30 in the FLOAT 100 for Memorabilia. It sold for $3,413,000 on 24 November 2014. Cinema's most romantic prop, from one of the most beloved films ever made.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
Cinema's most romantic prop, from one of the most beloved films ever made.
The upright piano on which Dooley Wilson ('Sam') plays 'As Time Goes By' in Rick's Cafe
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $3,413,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 24 November 2014
Bonhams New York, TCM sale. ~$3.413M. (A different, Paris-flashback Casablanca piano sold for $602,500 at Sotheby's in 2012.)
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08