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World's Oldest Camera Sells for Almost $800,000

Filed under: Gadgets

If you know what a "daguerreotype" is then you know more about cameras than most of us. A daguerreotype is an early type of photograph -- the first kind to be made commercially available. Along with daguerreotype photos came the first commercially available daguerreotype cameras, one of which was recently found in somebody's attic in Germany.

Built in 1839 and touted as "the world's oldest camera" (commercially produced), it went up for auction last week and sold for a whopping $792,333 to an anonymous online bidder. That sale price earned it the additional title of "world's most expensive camera."

Really? There's no "$1 million camera" anywhere? I doubt that.

Via BornRich

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Revolutionary Cognac and the Lanesborough

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Spirits

The Lanesborough Hotel in London recently began serving a revolutionary drink. Actually, the cognac it is offering is from the time of the French revolution, bottled in 1790. It is being served in small one and one-half ounce servings that cost £1,700 each. Unlike the $3,000 Bombay Sapphire martini, the drink doesn’t need to come with a pair of custom-made diamond and sapphire earrings to justify its price tag.