Christine Keeler trumps Kate Moss at auction A topless shot of Christine Keeler sells at auction for triple the price of a bare-chested Kate Moss A revealing photograph of a young Kate Moss - as lensed by famous photographer Patrick Demarchelier - and a topless shot of Christine Keeler by Lewis Morley went head to head at auction today. However, it was the image of the showgirl at the heart of the Profumo Affair which led to the eventual downfall of the Macmillan government that trumped that of a 19-year-old Moss. The images went under the hammer at a sale by Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions in London this afternoon. The photograph of Kate Moss taken in 1992, went for £4,000 while that of Keeler (admittedly signed by the lady herself) and published at the height of the Profumo Scandal, fetched a hammer price of £11,500 - practically triple the price of the supermodel shot. Keeler famously posed nude for Morley in 1963 and the photograph, part of a series to promote the planned film The Keeler Affair, prompted debate as to whether she was really completely nude or not. SEE: Kate Moss in 30 covers I am always asked if I wore knickers for the shot astride the chair. I certainly did. But it had been a battle to keep them on," Keeler revealed in her biography, Secrets and Lies, published this year. Morley had wanted to photograph me without any clothes on but I used the chair to cover my bust and pulled up my white knickers around my waist. SEE: London Fashion Week: Burberry Prorsum autumn/winter 2013 in pictures Still in fashion after all those years, Keeler also proved Christopher Bailey's inspiration for Burberry's autumn/winter 2013 show: "I wanted this idea of something classic mixed with something sexy," he said, "and I was looking into Christine Keeler. She was this very sexy very sassy woman. A sentiment certainly evinced by Morley's photograph. Cara Delevingne walks in Burberry's Keeler inspired autumn / winter 2013 show