Nor indeed the £53 million that somebody spent on an old vase the other day.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329308/How-53million-Chinese-vase-kept-wobbly-bookcase-semi-insured-just-800.html Supply and demand, the Apple 1 was basically a DIY kit sold to a very small group of people (Homebrew Computer Club from memory) so there were few made and thus few remain. I imagine an original Altair would bring similar sums as both are rare and iconic. You need a lot of people collecting something before you get really high prices for relatively mundane objects, since only a few of that group will have both the means and desire to pay top dollar. The auction house that sold the vase expected it to make 500,000 or so, but didn't realise that there is know a large pool of wealthy Chinese collectors who would pay 100 times more than that. Given the status of Apple and the diehard nature of Apple fans $200,000 is probably a not unrealistic figure. On 13/11/2010, at 12:14 PM, eckinator wrote: > I nonetheless fail to see why anyone would shell out that much money > for what is essentially an old chunk of electronic junk... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
