De Gaulle, Zuckerberg, Jennifer Aniston… The craziest auctions of 2024 | EUROtoday

Vhere’s a number of sixteen auctions that reached new heights this yr.

• At 50, General de Gaulle didn’t put on a Rolex, however a Lip watch which offered for 537,920 euros on December 17 at Artcurial in Paris.
• In shops, it prices round 400 euros. This gold-plated chain nonetheless offered virtually 100 occasions extra, 38,000 euros, on December 12 on-line. The element that makes its worth: it belonged to Mark Zuckerberg.
• The cats and canine within the Var and Alpes-Maritimes shelters might be pleased to study {that a} bust of Marianne with the likeness of Brigitte Bardot was offered for 3,800 euros on December 8 in Nice, for his or her profit.
• We see on one facet the profile of a killer. This extraordinarily uncommon gold coin bearing the picture of Brutus, one in all Julius Caesar’s assassins, was bought on December 9 in Geneva for 1.98 million euros.
• It’s not the satin shoe, however these, lined in ruby ​​sequins, of Judy Garland within the cult movie The Wizard of Oz (1937). Estimated at 2.9 million euros, they offered for 27 million euros on December 7 in Dallas (Texas).
• A uncommon version of “Promenades dans Rome”, by Stendhal, which belonged to Pierre Bergé, offered for 72,000 euros at Sotheby’s on December 2. You may also discover this guide for 13.10 euros at Folio Classique.
• He eats the banana he simply purchased for five.9 million euros on the finish of November at Sotheby’s. Not simply any banana, the one which artist Maurizio Cattelan put in taped to a wall. “It is much better than other bananas,” famous the client, Justin Sun, with satisfaction.
• An opened melon purchased for 26 million euros is pricey. But this one was painted by Chardin (1699-1779) and offered on June 12 by Christie’s.
• “To Father Helsen, in memory of the good years spent under his leadership, discovering Adventure…”, it was to his former scout chief that Hergé devoted this Tintin in America from 1932, offered for 191,145 euros on October 24 by Tajan.
• Jennifer Aniston wore it in season 7 of the sequence Friends : a superb motive to pay 6,250 euros for this sweater, with a sewn-on label bearing the title of Rachel, her character. Same quantity for Chandler’s polo shirt, worn by Matthew Perry, who died in 2023. Ross’s (David Schwimmer) reached 2,800 euros and Monica’s (Courteney Cox), solely 2,200 euros…
• No one forgot Princess Leia’s golden bikini in Return of the Jedi. The late Carrie Fisher stated she felt “very nervous” when she wore this outfit made from gold rubber and steel, which offered for 160,000 euros on July 26 in Dallas. Much costlier, let’s dare the comparability, than Eva Braun’s panties which offered for 3,200 euros in 2016…
• This watch was discovered on the physique of John Jacob Astor, one of many richest males on the earth in 1912, a passenger on the Titanic who died at age 47, after seeing his new spouse, Madeleine, board a lifeboat. The object was offered for 1.37 million euros on April 27 by Henry Aldridge & Son.
• A bottle of Irish whiskey from the Craft Irish Whiskey model was offered for two.56 million euros in January. Which places the glass of this single malt at 85,300 euros.