Most Expensive Furniture

Most Expensive Furniture   Item: Badminton Cabinet
 Winning Bid: $36 million
 Sold: 2004 An item like this really ties the room together — with money. When the 18th century Florentine ebony chest inlaid with amethyst quartz, agate, lapis lazuli and other stones sold for $36 million at a 2004 Christie's auction, it broke its own record as the most expensive piece of furniture sold at auction. The Badminton Cabinet, so named because...

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Most Expensive Diamond

Most Expensive Diamond  Item: Wittelsbach diamond Winning Bid: $23.4 million Sold: 2008 If diamonds are a girl's best friend, the Wittelsbach would make one heck of a BFF. The 35.56-carat blue diamond dates back to the 17th century, when King Philip IV of Spain selected the jewel to be part of his daughter's dowry. The diamond passed among Austrian and Bavarian royalty for centuries, but after World War I Bavaria became a republic...

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Most Expensive Car

Most Expensive Car Item: 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa RossaWinning Bid: $12.2 millionSold: 2009 There are only 21 other cars like it, but none of them are quite so expensive. While the 1957 Testa Rossas won 10 of the 19 international races that they entered from 1958 and 1961, this particular vehicle never finished better than fourth. No matter; the car's finest quality is not its speed but its beauty. With a body made by famed Italian automobile...

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Most Expensive Sports Memorabilia

Most Expensive Sports Memorabilia Item: Mark McGwire's 70th-home-run baseball Winning Bid: $3 million Sold: 1999 You knew you were in for something special when Mark McGwire came to bat. With the best at-bats-per-home-run ratio in the history of baseball (10.61 compared to Babe Ruth's 11.80), the St. Louis Cardinal was destined for Major League Baseball history. But McGwire's real claim to fame came in 1998, when he beat the Chicago...

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Most Expensive Antiquity

Most Expensive Antiquity  Item: Roman-era statue, Artemis and the Stag Winning Bid: $28.6 million Sold: 2007 When construction workers first unearthed this 2,000-year-old bronze sculpture in Rome in the 1920s, they never could have guessed it would fetch the highest price for any relic — indeed, for any sculpture, period — ever sold at auction. "I'd say it's probably the best antiquity I've sold in my 37 years at Sotheby's," a director...

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Most Expensive Lock of Hair

Most Expensive Lock of Hair  Item: Tresses from Elvis Presley Winning Bid: $115,000 Sold: 2002 Apart from his soulful voice and swinging hips, Elvis Presley was known for his hair. So it's perhaps no surprise that a strand from the King of Rock 'n' Roll's pompadour — surreptitiously hoarded by his personal barber — would bring in more dough than hair from John Lennon ($48,000), John F. Kennedy ($3,000) and Beethoven ($7,300) combined....

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Most Expensive Musical Instrument

Most Expensive Musical Instrument  Item: Guarneri del Gesù violin Winning Bid: $3.9 million Sold: 2007 Even if you don't play the violin, you've probably heard of Antonio Stradivari, the famous Italian craftsman of stringed instruments (or luthier, as such a person is known). But it was Bartolomeo Giuseppe Antonio Guarnieri, the grandson of one of Stradivari's apprentices, whose instrument broke the world record for the highest-priced...

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Most Expensive Manuscript

Most Expensive Manuscript  Item: Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Hammer Winning Bid: $30,802,500 Sold: 1994 As the ultimate Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci meticulously recorded his thoughts, musings and sketches in journals throughout his life. Of the 30 that remain, his most famous is the Codex Hammer, named for the British nobleman who acquired the 72-page journal in 1717. Three years after Bill Gates bought the historic diary, he...

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Most Expensive Piece of Clothing

Most Expensive Piece of Clothing   Item: Marilyn Monroe's "Happy Birthday Mr. President" DressWinning Bid: $1,267,500 Sold: 1999 When Marilyn Monroe delivered a sultry "Happy Birthday" serenade to President John F. Kennedy on May 19, 1962, the blonde bombshell wore a flesh-colored, curve-hugging, jewel-encrusted dress so tight and sheer that, according to legend, Monroe was sewn into the gown and wore...

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Most Expensive Painting

  Item: Pablo Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves and BustWinning Bid: $106.5 million Sold: 2010 All it took was a little over 8 minutes to set the record price for a piece of art sold at auction. On May 4, Christie's sold Pablo Picasso's Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, a painting created in the span of a single day in 1932, for $106.5 million dollars. The painting, which is of Picasso's lover Marie-Therese...

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