New York is truly a shopper's paradise. Not only is Dracula's Castle for sale here (see the post for January 10th), yesterday at an auction held at the I.M. Chait Gallery in Manhattan, New Yorkers were given the chance to purchase a mummy's hand, warthog heads, a fossilized penguin, meteorites, and the skull of a 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar. (Which was advertised as "perfect for a New York City apartment.)
The dinosaur skull sold for $276,000, while the mummy's hand went for a mere $4500. (And it does, indeed, look nice on my mantel.) You can read more about the items that were up for auction in the New York Times and the New York Sun.
Below: The skull that will soon decorate some lucky New Yorker's apartment.
7 comments:
why would ANYONE sell ANY of that?????
Because one has never lost money underestimating the taste of the multiverse's public.
But the mummy's hand was actually pretty cool. (is it indeed yours, Ananka?)
No, that was a joke. I missed the sale. But I wouldn't mind having a mummy's hand. One of my father's degrees is in archaeology, and we used to have bones and other ancient detritus hidden all over our house. And that is 100% true.
hey who is cosimacat anyway?
Me.
(Note- above comment was to kendall. I clicked publish and then realized I should explain.)
this is pretty cool- i got a skull kinda like the bottom one (but smaller) for my birthday
i also found a fox skull once in a forest in upstate NY(not nearly as gross as it sounds, there were no bits of fur or anything left on it, it had been dead a long time.)
plus i know someone who collects animal skulls,(she's an artist and she does some cool/creepy things with bones and old dolls) there's a surprisingly big market for them.
Post a Comment