The Rarest Things in the World

Posted by Alex in World Records on February 1, 2008 at 7:58 pm


AOL Money & Finance has a neat list of the Rarest Items in the World. Like this, for instance:

Rarest Wine
One of the rarest bottles of wine ever sold was purchased by Christopher Forbes for a mere £105,000 ($160,000). It was an unmarked green glass bottle with the inscription of "1787 Lafitte Th. J." (now known as Lafite and thought to be owned by Thomas Jefferson), found behind a wall in Paris.

Link – Thanks Pam!


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4 comments to "The Rarest Things in the World"

  1. VonSkippy
    February 1st, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    The list left out the rarest thing of all.....

    Common Sense.

  2. Snappy
    February 1st, 2008 at 10:53 pm

    There was an article in the New Yorker regarding the dubious ancestry of that bottle, and the suspect practices of the fellow who 'discovered' it. It may be online, I dunno. If you are interested, check.

  3. kiki strike
    February 2nd, 2008 at 11:02 am

    Here's the URL for the New Yorker story about the 1787 Lafitte.

    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/03/070903fa_fact_keefe

    The wine was a scam.

  4. Vako
    February 2nd, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    The only thing on that list that wasn't tacky or ostentatious was the cat.


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