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Another Eiffel Tower Staircase Up For Auction

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Last year, a piece of the Eiffel Tower's original staircase shocked bidders at an auction by going for over $216,000 when it was only estimated to sell for $29,000-$44,000. This year at Sotheby's sale of 20th Century Decorative Arts & Design in Paris on November 26, another section of the original staircase of the Eiffel Tower is up for sale. This piece, marked as number 15 has remained in the same collection since the sale of the first 20 pieces staged by Ader-Picard-Tajan in Paris in 1983. The 12-foot-high section is estimated at €40,000-60,000 ($52,500-$78,800). Given the general decrease in ebullience over last year, I'd be surprised if this one cracked the $100,000 mark.

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Businessman Buys Eiffel Tower Staircase

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

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Recently we heard that a section of staircase from the Eiffel tower, the last section actually, was going to be auctioned off and was expected to go for somewhere around $29,000-$44,000. Boy, who ever predicted those amounts was WAY off.

The auction took place on the 19th of this month and the old rusty chunk of the Eiffel Tower ended up closing at over $200,000 ($216,600 to be exact). The winning bidder was a Dutch entrepreneur named Erik Kurvers, who also happens to be the president of a Dutch basketball team aptly named the EiffelTowers.

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