From auction and elsewhere.
Copy of the Magna Carta, made 1297, signed by King Edward: $21,000,000
Pom.com, domain name: $9,500,000
Letter written by Abraham Lincoln, dated April 5, 1864: $3,400,000
Civil War surrender document, signed by Robert E. Lee: $537,750
American pilot chart book, 1794: $408,250
Two-page meditation on God by Albert Einstein: $405,000
Photographic volume of Michelangelo sculptures: $155,000
The Arctic Regions, by William Bradford, illustrated with 141 albumen prints, 1873: $144,000
First edition of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein: $122,000
Original drawing for Peanuts comic: $113,525
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, signed pre-publication copy, 1952: $96,000
Inquiry into Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith: $90,000
First Marvel comic, 1939: $89,625
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Lafayette: $84,000
Life of Napoleon (4 vv.), by William M. Sloane, 1896: $50,400
Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling (first edition): $33,460
The Heart of the Antarctic, by Ernest Shackleton (first edition), 1909: $31,200
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville (first edition), 1851: $17,925
Dracula, by Bram Stoker (first edition) 1897: $14,690
Voyage to the Pacific, by Capt. James Cook (first edition) 1784: $14,000
A cornflake shaped like the State of Illinois: $1,350
2 comments:
I'd say that last one might be a bad investment. I hope they don't eat into their capital.
Grin.
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