Have you ever wondered how much the most expensive fish was?
or the most expensive bible?
Well, you're about to find out!
1. Most Expensive Baseball Card
The Honus Wagner, 1909-1911 T206 is the most expensive baseball card in the world.
The baseball cards we know today originated from a marketing campaign run by The American Tobacco Company who came up with the idea to put collectible cards of baseball stars inside their cigarette packets. Honus Wagner actually made the ATC pull his card from production so only around 25-200 were printed.
Now, over 100 years later very few cards remain and those that do are either fakes or have severe damage, this has made the Honus Wagner card the holy grail of baseball cards and is why it fetched $3.12 million at auction.
2. Most Expensive Fish.
The President of the Sushi Zanmai restaurant chain bought a 612lb (278kg) Bluefin Tuna at a Tokyo fish market in 2019 for $3.1 million, beating his previous 2013 record of $1.76 million. Although the sushi restaurant President says that he believes that this time he may have overpaid, Pacific Bluefin Tuna is extremely expensive, this is because the species is vulnerable, fishing quotas are restricted, and there is a huge demand for its meat.
3. Most Expensive Bible.
The Gutenberg Bibles were one of the first books to be printed in Europe, only around 180 were printed, each Bible consisted of two volumes and no two were the same. Only 49 copies remain today and only half of those have both volumes. A complete Bible was last sold in 1978 for $2.2 million, a single volume was sold in 1987 for $5.5 million, and it is estimated that a complete copy sold at auction today would go for over $35 million.
4. Most Expensive Autograph.
Perhaps the most famous writer of all time, William Shakespeare had incredibly bad handwriting! He rarely wrote or signed anything, many believe that he couldn't even write and actually dictated his plays to be written by others, whether this is true or not we do not know but what we do know is that there are very few things actually written in his hand and even fewer signatures, 6 to be precise. The rarity and the notoriety of these signatures mean that it is unlikely that they will even be sold but it is estimated that if they were to go auction, each signature would reach in excess of $5 million.
5. Most Expensive Bowl.
The Ru Guanyao Brush Washer Bowl is a 900-year-old bowl used to clean calligraphy or paint brushes. The Imperial court of the late Northern Song Dynasty commissioned the bowl from the most notable of the five great kilns. It is one of only 6 examples of Ru ceramics to have come to auction in over 80 years. In 2017 the bowl went to auction in Sotheby's Hong Kong and after a 20-minute bidding war, it reached the astronomical sum of...
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$37.7 million
6. Most Expensive Notebook.
The Leonardo Da Vinci Codex Leicester is a 72-page notebook written by da Vinci himself between the years 1506 and 1510. The book offers a glimpse inside da Vinci's mind with diagrams and sketches expressing his thoughts on the relationship between the Earth, the Moon, and the Sun and ideas on water movements and why fossils can be found on mountains. It was sold at Christie's in New York in 1994 for $30.8 million which today is equivalent to around $54 million.
7. Most Expensive Vase.
The Pinner Qing Dynasty Vase was actually found by a woman who was clearing out her late sister's house in Pinner, London, England.
It was later discovered that it was a lost vase from the Qing dynasty and dates back to around 1750. Originating from the imperial kilns of the Qing Dynasty. In 2010, after an intense bidding war, the hammer finally dropped at a whopping $83 million.
8. Most Expensive Piano.
If you know anything about pianos, it may surprise you that the most expensive piano on our list isn't a Steinway! It was designed by the Canadian piano manufacturer, Heintzman Pianos for the 2008 Beijing Olympics where it was played by the famous pianist Lang Lang. As far as we know and possibly due to the fragility of the piano itself, this is the only time the Heintzman Crystal Piano was played before it was sold at auction to an anonymous buyer for $3.2 million.
9. Most Expensive Coin.
The Flowing Hair Silver Dollar is believed to be the first silver coin to be minted and issued by the US Federal Government back in 1794. Of the 1,758 coins originally minted only around 140 coins are believed to be still in existence, however, the details on this coin in particular, remain crisp and pristine suggesting that it was probably the very first coin to have been pressed with the Flowing
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