Limited to just 15 pieces this is no doubt on every Luxury Egg collector’s Christmas list. Retailing for £27,000, you get a base and a body made of Herend porcelain, decorated with the Victoria pattern symbolising the standing that the honour of Queen Victoria’s choice conferred on Herend.
The upper part of the egg is made of 18 carat gold with metal wiring. The parts of the lower neck were shaped individually with precision casting technology
The stones were set individually in crown or bezel settings; the gold band crossing the top and bottom of the egg is decorated with one hundred diamonds; pressing the drop-shaped ruby clasp will open the egg and display the Herend Royal Butterfly, a diamond-bedecked pendant.
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Hand made by a family-run business in Yorkshire, this heirloom-quality luxury rocking horse is crafted from environmentally-friendly hardwood for longevity and toughness. It comes complete with a drawstring suede grooming bag containing a body cloth and grooming brush to attend to his real horsehair mane and tail.
You can even personalise your brass plaque fixed to the frame. It could be engraved with a special date or perhaps the names of the giver and/or recipients. The price includes direct delivery to the room of your choice by the manufacturers. Yours for £1,750 at John Lewis.
Suitable for 3 years and up and measures L145 x W80 x H120cm.
The Beatles Sgt Pepper drum skin used on the cover of the famous album cover has sold for almost four times the estimated price reaching £541,250 ($1.07m).
It was also a great day for sales for other famous memorabilia too as the collection, which included photos never seen in public before, fetched more than £1.5m ($2.97m) and included John Lennon’s famous lyrics for Give Peace a Chance sold for £421,250 ($833,000).
A pair of tinted prescription sunglasses belonging to Lennon, which the singer wore for the cover of the single Mind Games, raised £39,650 ($78,400) alone!
Recordings of the Jimi Hendrix Experience performing at the Woburn Music Festival in July 1968 went for £48,050 ($95,000), a Marshall amplifier used by Hendrix in concert fetched £25,000 ($49,400) and a pair of his stripy flared trousers made £20,000 ($39,550).
A 1967 Gibson guitar, formerly owned by Pete Townshend of the Who, sold for £32,450 ($64,200).
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Posted by Tom Wilkins on Wed 21st November 2007 at 04:07 PM, Filed in Luxury Antiques
It seems that classic first edition books might be a good investment judging by a recent auction at Bonhams. The auction took place last week and included a first edition Emily Bronte novel Wuthering Heights printed in 1847 which sold for a staggering £114,000 ($228,000).
Simon Roberts at Bonhams in central London said “Condition is key. Always go for the best you can afford. Shabby copies may be less than a tenth of the value of a book in pristine condition. It is particularly important to pick up a book with its original dust jacket if possible. Many first-edition hardbacks came with a dust jacket that over time was lost or destroyed.”
The Telegraph give some rather handy tips if you fancy dipping your toe in the precious book market.
