Most Expensive Stuff: Art

Most Expensive Batman Comics of All Time
Batman has become one of the most popular comic book characters of all time since his creation over 70 years ago. This success may be due to the fact that, unlike most costumed crime fighters, Batman has no superhuman powers; he relies on his extraordinary detective skills, peak physique and an array of high-tech gadgets [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Sunglasses
A pair of designer sunglasses can easily become one of the most expensive accessories in your wardrobe. With sunglasses priced in the thousands and even hundreds of thousands, there’s evidence aplenty that a good designer will never lack for work. Louis Vuitton Evasion – $1,200 The omnipresent LV rears its fashionable head again. In this [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Books
Like any historical work, first edition books can fetch enormous sums when sold at auction. This is especially true of those books written by influential authors, scientists and other extraordinary thinkers. The most expensive books in the world are the works of seminal masters whose legacies are all but impossible to ignore. Ptolemy’s Cosmography – [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Christmas Trees
Nothing says “Merry Christmas!” like a Christmas tree. Every few years, it seems, the world’s most expensive Christmas tree is outdecked, outjingled and outpriced by the most expensive Christmas tree in the world. Soo Kee Jewellery Diamond Christmas Tree, 2007 US $1,005,000 Bugis Junction, a shopping mall in Singapore, may just have had the merriest [...]
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Most Expensive English Furniture
England’s long and storied history has produced one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, various masterful literary works and some equally masterful pieces of furniture. The Harrington Commode—no, not that kind of commode; it’s a chest of drawers—broke a record for English furniture when it was sold at a Sotheby’s in London [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Vases
Some of the earliest pottery has been discovered in China, dating back to 9000 BC, and ceramic goods from the region can be traced back to the dynasties under which they were created. In fact, the first porcelain is believed to have been created under the Han dynasty from 202 BC to 220 AD. As [...]
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Most Expensive Glee Episode
In 2011, Fox’s premiere musical dramedy is going to the Super Bowl. Glee, in its second season, will be celebrating the most important day in American football with their most expensive episode ever. While it was already rumored that the Glee cast would be performing Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” for their post-Super Bowl episode, it has [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Coat Hangers
For the fashionista whose designer coats are made drab by pedestrian hangers, there is a solution. The most expensive hangers in the world aren’t just pricey—they’re made specifically for those who are tuned in to the world of fashion. These Cityscape Coat Hangers, designed by Christopher Jarratt, are made from high quality birch plywood and [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Toilets
If someone were to say, “I just bought a Toto,” you might think they’d purchased a little black Terrier and named it after the Wizard of Oz costar. They could, on the other hand, be the proud owner of a luxurious new commode. That technological marvel is just the first on our list of the [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Movie Posters
A movie poster collection may be anything from an extension of another hobby to a sign of serious passion for film history. One buyer may be willing to pay $10 or $20 for an original “Fellowship of the Ring” one-sheet while another pays $47,000 for one of the few remaining “Grand Hotel” posters. With the [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Floor Tiles
If you’re remodeling your mansion and want your floor to have all the elegance of a royal palace, it would be hard to think of a tile more suitable than Pietra Firma’s LuxTouch, the most expensive tile in the world. Pietra Firma takes floor tiling to new heights with this black marble creation. Each tile [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Paint
Byzantine emperor Justinian I wearing Tyrian purple. Modern science has almost eliminated the demand for the most expensive paint in the world. In fact, its main usage in the modern era is to restore the works of antiquity. Still, what artist wouldn’t sell his or her right arm to work with genuine Tyrian purple? Tyrian [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Comic Book
Many people read comic books growing up as kids, but a certain few retain their passion and become meticulous collectors of expensive comic books. Other people think of comic books as juvenile superhero fantasies, but the sophisticated storytelling and artwork of modern comic books and graphic novels is changing that perception. The most expensive comic [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Spare Tire Cover
Maybe you have the right clothes and the right jeep or SUV, but that plain black spare tire cover just isn’t going to cut it. It doesn’t say enough about you as a person and it certainly didn’t cost enough. No, you need the most expensive spare tire cover in the world. That’s where celebrated [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Coloring Book
Sometimes a product is the most expensive because it’s a technical marvel. Sometimes the price comes from embellishment with gold, gems and other precious minerals. Other times, though, the merit is entirely in the price tag. Such is the case, it seems, with “Les 4 Mondes,” which is likely the most expensive coloring book in [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures
One major draw of the miniature wargaming tradition, from which the modern role-playing game evolved, was the collection of masses of miniature units, siege engines and single figures. Those minis came in handy for early Dungeons and Dragons players, as the original game system was a variation of the Chainmail wargame. While miniatures became an [...]
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World’s Most Expensive T-Shirts
T-shirts, so called due to their ‘T’ shape, were originally considered undergarments. Nowadays, of course, these ubiquitous shirts are commonly used to express the wearer’s taste in art or music, their political views or their fondness for bad jokes. While T-shirts are usually relatively cheap, sometimes they become collector’s items and enter the ranks of [...]
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Luxury Scarves
Scarves, without doubt, owe their global popularity to their wide variety of uses. A scarf can keep you warm on a cold day or it can be used to wipe the sweat from your face on a hot day. They can be used to keep dust and insects out of your mouth while you’re riding [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Sushi
Filipino chef Angelito Araneta, Jr. specializes in extravagant foods to be used during courtship and marriage proposals. In 2009, he created a $2,500 “carat” cake coated completely in gold flake and topped with diamonds. In 2010, he created a dish that looked somewhat more, well, edible—the most expensive sushi in the world. Each of the [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Bathtubs
Nothing says luxury like lazing the hours away in a tub that costs more than a lot of houses. Those looking for such a tub, however, have a few more options than they used to. If you’re not happy with plain porcelain, you can purchase a tub made from fine materials or hi-tech gadgets. Water [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Tattoo
Tattoos have had a number of uses throughout human history. A tattoo may be spiritual in nature or simply aesthetic; it may even mark the bearer as part of a particular gang. The most expensive tattoo in the world, however, may be the first to display the bearer’s wealth so well. The tattoo worn by [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Stove
The vast majority of the pricey items featured on this site are made with costly materials such as gold or diamonds, and the most expensive stove in the world is no exception. Unlike many of those goods, however, this stove was a work of art before it received the gold treatment. Whether you’re heating your [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Wallpaper
What kind of artist works with a hunting knife? Ask Mark Evans, the pioneer whose work has been called “leather sculpting.” That work will soon adorn the walls of one Russian billionaire’s mansion as the most expensive wallpaper in the world. Evans works by etching the leather down to the suede with a number of [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Beauty Pageant Crown
(via RiaNovosti) The Miss Russia Pageant has only been around since 1993 and, since then, it has produced one Miss Universe and two winners of Miss World (one of whom was, unfortunately, later dethroned). Now, however, the pageant has a new claim to fame—the most expensive beauty pageant crown in the world. The new Miss [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Written Manuscript
Giacomo Casanova, the world’s greatest lover, may have been Venetian, but it was the French government who, in early 2010, paid top dollar for the licentious libertine’s manuscript. Casanova wrote of his adventures from 1789 to his death in 1798, during which time he was employed as the librarian to Count Waldstein in the Castle [...]
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World’s Top Five Most Expensive Sculptures
By Dave Klemencic and Jeremy Harris Paintings are often highly sought after due to their broad appeal and identifiability. They’re relatively easy to transport and widely available in a variety of price levels. Sculptures, on the other hand, have a tendency to fetch much higher prices initially, due primarily to the workload involved in their [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Television Show
HBO’s latest attempt to recapture the magic that made The Sopranos a hit may just be the most expensive television show in the world. According to The New York Post, the pilot episode for Boardwalk Empire has set HBO back $50 million—around five times the price of Lost’s two-hour pilot episode, formerly thought to be [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Wig
Iconic pop artist Andy Warhol strove for a unique and trendsetting look—even going so far as to commission mismatched footwear with patches sewn onto the right shoe. Then, of course, there’s the famous wig he began wearing in the mid-1960s. While the silver-grey wig was originally intended to cover up his receding hairline, it became [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Harmonica
While reed instruments had been popular in Asia for centuries, the first harmonica wasn’t produced until 1821. Hohner Musikinstrumente, once the world’s most prominent manufacturer of harmonicas, was founded less than forty years later. In the 1930s, the company awarded Pope Pius XI with the most expensive harmonica in the world. Pius XI was a [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Candle
People have been practicing chandlery for over 5,000 years, but a truly impressive candle still comes along every now and then. Such is the case with the “Ultimate Luxury Candle,” the most expensive candle in the world. The Ultimate Luxury Candle by Luxury Soy Candles lives up to its name with both its fragrance, Champagne [...]
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Top 6 Most Expensive Movies Ever Made
Awhile back, we put together an inflation-adjusted list of the Most Expensive Movies Ever Made. Of course, it’s hard to call a $100 million film the most expensive movie ever made when movies regularly exceed twice as much nowadays. So, without further ado (or inflation adjustment), we present the top five most expensive movies ever [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Christmas Ornament
The holidays are coming up and the UK’s Hallmark Jewelers are ringing in the season with the most expensive Christmas ornament in the world. Adorned with 500 diamonds—three of them one carat apiece—arranged along a snowflake pattern and orbited by 188 rubies, The World’s Most Valuable Christmas Bauble, as they call it, is a truly [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Soda Can
The subtitle on the website of Robin Antar’s Antar Studios inc. proclaims her work as “Realism in Stone.” Antar’s work consists mostly of mundane objects such as denim jackets, potato chip bags, tubes of toothpaste and even M&Ms bags rendered in stone. While you can’t drink from it, Antar’s “Soda Can” is likely the most [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Beatles Memorabilia
Yesterday and Today with the “butcher cover” Yesterday and Today was the Beatles’ twelfth US release, a collection of tracks from LPs and singles that hadn’t been released in the US. While the band didn’t appreciate the mishmash approach Capitol Records took with the album, they were able to exert some creative control over the [...]
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Most Expensive Piece of Furniture
The world’s most expensive piece of furniture isn’t a bed, a chair or even a couch—it’s a cabinet. Blurring the line between art and craft, the Badminton Cabinet is truly a unique item. The Badminton Cabinet (or Badminton Chest) was commissioned by Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, at the age of 19. It took [...]
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Most Expensive Stool
Imagine you’re sitting in your Eileen Gray “Dragons” chair, sipping a glass of Dalmore 62 Highland Malt Scotch Whisky. Where do you put your feet? Unless you somehow missed the title, you already know the answer—the world’s most expensive stool. Sold by a jewelry store in China’s Jiangsu province, this expensive stool is made of [...]
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Most Expensive Lamp
Tiffany lamps are a special kind of Art Nouveau lamp made with glass shades. Their history begins in 1895, when the first lamp was produced by the Tiffany Glass Company—later known as Tiffany Studios. They were not, however, designed by stained glass artist and company founder Louis Comfort Tiffany, as has been thought until recently. [...]
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Most Expensive Xbox 360
Want to own the most expensive Xbox 360 in the world? Replace the boring old faceplate with this one and you’ll have it. This unique faceplate was auctioned on eBay in 2005. Made of 999.9 ounces of solid 24k gold, the faceplate was cast with access to all the ports and receivers necessary to enjoy [...]
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Most Expensive Lighter
French luxury firm S. T. Dupont—no relation to the chemical company—has been dealing in extravagance since 1872, when it was founded by Simon Tissot Dupont. Recently, for instance, they created a line of accessories inspired by the 2006 James Bond film, Casino Royale. This year, they’ve produced the world’s most expensive lighter. Part of the [...]
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Most Expensive Trash Can
The world’s most expensive garbage cans are the work of contemporary pop artist Sylvie Fleury. Created in a limited edition of twenty-five pieces, these garbage cans are made of steel pressed with gold leaf. Each one is stamped with “SF 2003” and its individual number on the underside. Number 25 was made available at Phillips [...]
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Most Expensive Netbook
Netbooks, smaller and less powerful laptops meant to be used in conjunction with a host of web-based applications, entered the public consciousness with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Association’s goal of distributing the ultraportable computers throughout developing countries. Now netbooks like Asus’ Eee PC and Acer’s Aspire One are starting to overtake the laptop [...]
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Most Expensive Chair
A chair belonging to late and great French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent has just made history as the world’s most expensive chair. The founder of the eponymous YSL luxury brand, Saint Laurent died in June of 2008 just a few days after marrying his partner and co-founder, Pierre Bergé. The expensive armchair had belonged [...]
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Most Expensive Ring
If you’re an aging bachelor and billionaire looking to wed someone half your age, you may want to look into expensive engagement rings. One such individual’s proposal to an ex-model involved a $1.5 million engagement ring. That may seem way out there, but it’s not even close to the most expensive ring in the world. [...]
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Most Expensive Pool Table
How much do you love the game of pool? Do you love it more than your car? More than your house? Well, thanks to Vincent Facquet, you now have the option to really vote with your wallet by buying the world’s most expensive pool table. The Luxury Billiard is a 117-by-67-inch table with a 100-by-50-inch [...]
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Most Expensive Bullets
Bullet Forge, an online retailer of custom bullets, may be offering the most expensive bullet in the world. The retailer sells gold bullets, platinum bullets and, of course, a whole lot of silver bullets. Their premier offering, however, is this 45 ACP hollow-point made of 14-karat white gold. Mounted within the hollow-point are ninety diamonds [...]
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Most Expensive Tolkien Books
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Most Expensive iPhone App
The most expensive iPhone app ever sold was one aptly called “I Am Rich”—one of the first apps to be offered on iTunes. It consisted of a small icon with the subtext “I Am Rich.” Clicking on the icon would fill the screen with a large, ruby red gem on a red and black background. [...]
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Most Expensive Rubik’s Cube
You’ve probably spent hours in frustration trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube. Maybe you’ve even solved it a few times. Maybe you’ve even figured out how to solve the thing consistently. Wouldn’t you feel smarter, though, if you solved the most expensive Rubik’s Cube in the world? Yeah, I thought so. The Masterpiece Cube, created [...]
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Most Expensive Christmas Tree
This post has been archived. Check out our list of the World’s Most Expensive Christmas Trees. ‘Tis the season the empty your wallet—as if it wasn’t empty enough already. Despite any global economic crises or whatnot, this year marks the unveiling of yet another world’s most expensive Christmas tree. Outdoing last year’s tree, a million-dollar [...]
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Most Expensive Broadway Musical
Broadway theatre has its roots in the very end of the 18th century, when New York’s first theatre companies were formed. Nowadays, Broadway audiences can expect to see a mixture of well known television and movie stars and stage actors who only play bit parts outside of theatre. Considering the salaries commanded by film actors, [...]
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Most Expensive Straight Razor
If you’re the kind of guy who manages to cut himself with a safety razor, the world’s most expensive razor is not for you. If you have steady hands, an appreciation of fine craftsmanship and the kind of budget that lets you buy a $30,000 razor, though, then you may want to take a look [...]
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Most Expensive Knife
In 1966, a twenty-something named Buster Warenski decided that he’d like to make his own knife. Forty years later, he is considered one of the greatest knife makers of the last century. At the age of thirty, he became one of the handful of knife makers to join the Knifemakers Guild. He ended up serving [...]
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Most Expensive Doghouse
Does your purse-ridden poodle get hives just looking at a standard doghouse? If so, then he may be in luck as the world’s most expensive doghouse will appeal to even the princeliest pup’s sensibilities. This unique doghouse, featuring the face of Japan’s famous feline, was created by Sanrio for a sales event at a department [...]
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Most Expensive Mr. Potato Head
Originally released in 1952 as a collection of body parts and accessories that could be attached to a real potato (or many other fruits and vegetables), Mr. Potato Head has become one of the most widely recognized toy brands in the US. It was more than ten years before a plastic potato body was added [...]
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World’s Most Expensive Watches
Watch collecting may be one of the most expensive hobbies in the world, but it’s also one of the most rewarding. Many antique timepieces are a testament to the brilliance of early and modern innovators. Vacherin Constantin’s Tour de l’Ile – $1.5 million Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin marked its 250th anniversary in 2005 with the [...]
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Most Expensive Silent Film
It’s being claimed by some that Pixar’s latest offering, Wall-E, is the most expensive silent film ever made. While it’s true that the film’s staggering $180 million budget places it within the top 20 most expensive films of all time, the film is not technically a silent film. The story of the last—and loneliest—robot on [...]
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Most Expensive Record
Have you ever heard of The Quarrymen? No? Well, it may shock you to find out that that a vanity record pressed by this group is worth something like £100,000 ($200,000 USD). Even more surprising, the world’s most expensive record is a single—a cover of Buddy Holly’s “That’ll Be the Day.” If you’re wondering how [...]
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Most Expensive Surfboards
Marc Newson’s nickel-plated board (via 360Guide.info) The original surfboards were a Hawaiian invention made from local wood. Not only were these boards over 15 feet long, but they were quite heavy as well. Nowadays, surfboards are usually made from polyurethane foam covered in a few layers of fiberglass cloth and then coated with polyester resin. [...]
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Most Expensive Newspaper
You probably know that the advent of the web has caused a steady decline in newspaper circulation. Eventually, printed broadsheets may become a thing of the past entirely, relegated to museums and rare book libraries. In that case, certain newspaper copies may command exceedingly high prices for their historical value. For now, though, it’s the [...]
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Most Expensive Diamond Necklaces
An expensive diamond necklace is more than a simple accessory. It’s a statement of opulence that will set members of your family apart for generations. Check out some of the world’s most expensive diamond necklaces. H. Stern’s Venus Necklace – $3.17 million This 110-carat diamond necklace features a number of cushion, square and pear-cut diamonds [...]
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Most Expensive Champagne Glasses
(via Baller House) Fine champagne needs an equally fine glass. It follows, then, that drinking the most expensive champagne requires the most expensive champagne glass. Enter John Calleija, designer of a pair of champagne glasses sure to put any others to shame. Adorned with 1,700 diamonds—both white and a rare argyle pink—these glasses were hand [...]
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Most Expensive Money Clip
What could say “I’m rich” better than paying for your morning coffee with a bill pulled from the world’s most expensive money clip? The Hou Yi money clip, handmade by Chinese craftsman Li Bosheng, is made of 14 karat gold and high-grade sterling silver. The part that really makes this a special money clip, though, [...]
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Most Expensive Rug
The $4.5 million Persian rug The world’s most expensive rug may be silk, Persian and four or five hundred years old, but does it really tie the room together? One anonymous buyer seems to think so. Sold by Christie’s for $4.45 million, the 16th or 17th century Persian rug measures 7’ 5” by 5’ 7”. [...]
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Most Expensive Japanese Art
An anonymous party represented by Mitsukoshi Ltd., a company that operates department stores, recently made history by making this statue the most expensive piece of Japanese or Buddhist art ever auctioned. The twenty-six inch, gold-painted statue, thought to be sculpted by Kamakura-period (1185–1333) artist Unkei, depicts a seated Dainichi Nyorai sun goddess. While it was [...]
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Most Expensive Sweaters
How would you like to gain a piece of television and fashion history while helping out children with learning difficulties? Bid on one of the most expensive sweaters and you may be able to do just that. Erinn Cosby, one of Bill Cosby’s four daughters, is auctioning off three of her famous father’s notorious sweaters [...]
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Most Expensive Salons
We’ve already told you about the world’s most expensive haircut, a one-off service provided by stylist Stuart Phillips to retired millionaire Beverley Lateo, but Mr. Pillips’ usual fee of £150 (around $300) is far short of that commanded by some. The wealthy, after all, are willing to pay a handsome fee for a stylist who [...]
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Most Expensive Table
Rococo is a style of art and interior design developed by the French in the 18th century. Rococo-style rooms favored form over function, featuring ornate furniture, elegant tapestries, ornamental mirrors and other lavish trappings. Sold at a Christie’s auction in Philadelphia, the most expensive table in the world is just one example of rococo furniture. [...]
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Most Expensive Bass Guitar
A financially endowed bass player might look at any one of Jens Ritter’s bass guitars, which start at $6,000, and be content. After all, the German luthier’s expensive basses are made with some of the same techniques used to make Stradivarius violins. One customer, however, wasn’t satisfied with one of Ritter’s “normal” guitars and we’re [...]
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Most Expensive Living Artist
Jeff Koons’ “Hanging Heart” The record for most expensive living artist seems to change hands like a $20 bill. Currently, the record is held by Jeff Koons for his “Hanging Heart” piece, which sold for $21.6 million. Before that, the record belonged to Damien Hirst. His “Lullaby Spring” pill box sold for $19.1 million at [...]
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Most Expensive Belt Buckle

If you prefer a tastefully understated buckle or an enormous ram’s head, these expensive belt buckles are probably not for you. These buckles are about showing off your wealth and class. These are the most expensive belt buckles in the world. Kate Miles $18,000 (incl. belt) These belts by Kate Miles are adorned with some [...]
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Most Expensive Magic: The Gathering Card
Ever wonder what someone does with a mathematics degree other than teaching math? Richard Garfield, while studying combinatorial mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, decided to apply his arithmetic skills to game design. He earned his PhD in 1993, the same year role-playing game publisher Wizards of the Coast first published a card game of [...]
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Most Expensive Fabergé Egg
Fabergé eggs are extravagantly decorated, jeweled eggs created by master jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé and his assistants. The Russian jeweler made at least seventy-five eggs between 1885 and 1917, fifty-two of which are “Imperial Easter eggs” presented to Russian Czars Alexander III and Nicholas II as Easter gifts for their respective wives. Each of the [...]
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Most Expensive Earrings
One of the world’s oldest forms of body modification, the practice of wearing earrings has almost certainly been around longer than recorded history. The world’s most expensive earrings, on the other hand, were created much more recently. Harry Winston’s Extraordinary Diamond Drop Earrings weren’t made by Harry Winston—he died nearly thirty years before they were [...]
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Most Expensive Video Game
Back in 1993, when the revolutionary first person shooter, Doom, was released, a game could be made by eleven people with a budget that was probably around $200,000. Today, the production of a video game can cost upwards of tens of millions of dollars and sometimes takes over 5 years to develop. Releasing an A-list [...]
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Most Expensive Concert Tickets
Anyone who purchased tickets to a Madonna show last year probably knows that they paid $300 USD for the most expensive concert tickets in 2007. Madonna doesn’t hold the record for the most expensive concert tickets ever, though. That honor goes to Led Zeppelin, whose tickets were recently auctioned off for £83,000 ($164,929 USD) for [...]
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Most Expensive Movie Ever Made

With three or four multi-million dollar blockbusters popping up every summer, it’s clear that film is important to American culture. In fact, the top three movies of 2006 grossed nearly $1 billion altogether. At its peak, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, the highest grossing movie of 2006, was shown in over 4,000 different [...]

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Most Expensive Koran

The Koran, or “The Recitation”, is the central text of the Muslim religion. It may also be written Qur’an, Quran or Al-Quran. In its original Arabic, it is believed to be the word of Allah (the Arabic word for “God”) dictated to Muhammad by the angel Gabriel. The first known Korans were printed from wooden [...]

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Most Expensive Wedding Bouquet

What has ninety gemstones, nine diamonds, a star-shaped ruby and an entry in the Vietnamese “Guinness Book of World Records”? If you guessed the expensive bouquet on display on the sixth floor of Ruby Plaza in Hanoi, you’d be right. Valued at around $125,000 USD, this wedding bouquet of red and white gemstone flowers just [...]

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Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold

by Dave Klemencic Making your art-snob friends jealous can be a full-time job. With the regularly fluctuating market and exorbitant prices that fine art fetches these days, you’ve got to be quick to stay on top of the game. In November of 2006, action-painter Jackson Pollock’s “No.5 1948” took the cake as most expensive painting [...]

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Most Expensive Pens in the World

Aurora’s Diamante What better way is there to show your dedication to the (hand)written word than to own the world’s most expensive pen? Okay, there might be a few better ways to do so. In fact, the most expensive pen’s true purpose is likely to show off just how much money you make as the [...]

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Most Expensive Sculpture Ever Sold

Archived: Check out our list of the World’s Top Five Most Expensive Sculptures. By Dave Klemencic Constantin Brancusi’s Bird in Space brought $27.45 million at an auction in New York, making it the most expensive fine art sculpture sold to date. This tops previous record holders including Antonio Canova’s The Three Graces which was sold [...]

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Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

This article has been archived and is no longer accurate, please view the most expensive painting ever sold. What’s the Most Expensive Painting in the World? By David Klemencic Making your art-snob friends jealous can be a full-time job. With the regularly fluctuating market and exorbitant prices that fine art fetches these days, you’ve got [...]

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Most Expensive Doll

Most people play with dolls, figures and replicas as toys when they are young. Some dolls are simple stuffed animals with plastic heads, and others are action figures complete with body armor and weapons. Certain dolls are exquisite works of visual art and engineering. L’Oiseleur (The Bird Trainer), a 4-ft-tall automaton doll, comes complete with [...]

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Most Expensive Movie Actress

Reese Witherspoon is now the most expensive movie actress in Hollywood as reportedly she will be paid $29,000,000 to star in a new horror film, Our Family Trouble. Previously Julia Roberts was known as the most expensive actress for starring in Mona Lisa Smile and being paid $24,000,000 to do so. Reese was born in [...]

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Most Expensive Photograph

The Pond-Moonlight by Edward Steichen has become the most expensive photograph ever, as it was just recentely sold for more than $2,900,000 during a Sotheby’s sale which began in New York on February 14, 2006. The expensive photograph was taken on Long Island in 1904. There are three known copies of the most expensive photograph [...]

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Most Expensive Guitar in the World

by Heather Strobel “Blackie”, Eric Clapton’s favorite mid-career modified Strat has been surpassed in value and is no longer the most expensive guitar ever, despite that it was bought for $950,000 USD in 2004 by a guitar archaeologist. The latest most expensive electric guitar in the world dethroned its predecessor at an auction in Doha, [...]

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Most Expensive Turntable in the World

The turntable started out as a device used to play music by rotating a phonograph record on a a circular horizontal platform, but it has evolved into a music instrument itself and some models now are just as much as the costliest instrument. The record player was the most popular device for playing sound from [...]

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Most Expensive Music Video Ever

When MTV first went on air in 1981, music videos became an important part of promoting an artist. Nowadays, hardcore fans will even buy DVDs featuring all of their favorite artists’ videos. The most memorable music videos, of course, are usually the most expensive. These are the most expensive music videos in the world. 5. [...]

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