OPOPOPPA, silk jacket, 1971, Claes af Geijerstam's presenter jacket.

with hand-stitched appliqués (See image on another version) Certificate will follow this lot number PROVENANCE: Claes af Geijerstam HISTORY: Opopa TV program with Claes af Geijerstam as presenter. The program was influential in pop circles and attracted major world artists such as Frank Zappa, Todd Rundgren and Georgie Fame. Swedish artists such as Björn Skifs and Tomas Ledin also appeared in the program. The husband band was led by Lars Samuelson and this included, among others, Janne Schaffer.

POP HISTORY FROM THE BIG STAGE Straight over disc? Absolutely. But Claes "Clabbe" af Geijerstam is more than that. He is right over the whole of entertainment Sweden. A personified red thread that bound together several generations of viewers and listeners: as guitarist and songwriter in Ola & The Janglers from 1965, as an innovative radio DJ in "Rakt över disc" 1979-1993 and as a jury member in the television program "Idol" in 2004 -2006.

Beyond that and in between?

At the end of the 1960s, Clabbe wrote film music for Bo Widerberg, Jörn Donner and Janne Halldoff, led the radio and television program "Opopoppa" into the 1970s, and beat ABBA himself when, together with Göran Fristorp, he won the Swedish melody festival with "The summer that never says no" 1973. When ABBA won with "Waterloo" the following year and set out to conquer the world, Clabbe was hired as sound engineer, handling the sound for every single gig (106 in total) until the very last concert at the legendary Budokan in Tokyo on March 27, 1980 . In addition, he has produced a wide range of artists and also events such as the opening of the Globe in 1989.

- It's more fun to be quite good at quite a lot than the best at just one thing - even if you don't make a huge breakthrough that way, says Clabbe af Geijerstam with a smile.

When he now organizes a collection of memorabilia for Crafoord Auktioner Stockholm, he thus has a rare content-rich career with many magical memories to pour out. Everything is directly linked to him and also musician colleague Caj Högberg who performed with ABBA, Carola, Tomas Ledin and Jerry Williams among others. Highly personal, or "Straight from the source" as Clabbe af Geijerstam himself puts it.

- I have many items in the ABBA museum from before but was inspired by Michael B. Tretow's auction at Crafoord and found quite a few more, says Clabbe. They shouldn't just lie in the drawers at home. "Everything for the fans" is the motto!

Among the items are a number of tour jackets that Clabbe af Geijerstam received, exchanged for himself or designed himself, the rare maxi single "Hovas vittne" by ABBA as a gift to Stikkan Anderson on his 50th birthday in 1981, ultra curiosities in the form of a bar of soap from the hotel room that two intimate 'perches' were meant to be shared in connection with the 'Top of the Pops' TV taping in London, backstage passes, ABBA's 1974 tour schedule and jewelery as gifts to band and tour members.

- The microphones are probably the coolest, Clabbe thinks. It was expensive to have many pickups so we chose carefully. These are the ones that ABBA has sung at every gig since 1977. They were tuned to the different voices with a built-in equalizer and traveled comfortably in their own boxes.

We're simply talking pop history and ABBA DNA.