The most valuable piece of football history is an original FA Cup, one of four produced for the first competition held in 1871 and presented to the winning team between 1896 and 1910. An anonymous telephone bidder bought the cup for £420,000 ($773,136) from Christie’s, UK on 19 May 2005. With the added premium the actual price paid was £478,400 ($880,639). Source as attached
The most expensive flag sold at auction is the Royal Standard rescued by Sir Ernest Shackleton from his doomed ship, the Endurance which went to an anonymous buyer in 26 September 2002 for £116,000 ($180,600) at Christie’s, London, UK. The flag was presented to Shackleton in 1914 by the dowager Queen Alexandra before he set off on his historic voyage to the Antarctic. The painted silk standard was one of only two things that Shackleton saved from his ship before it was crushed in the
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Walt Disney’s Tarzan (USA 1999), first released on 17 June 1999, was made with a budget of US$150 million (then £94 million). It was the first film to use the technique ‘Deep Canvas’, which allows 2D hand-drawn characters to exist in a 3D environment.
The most expensive Bollywood film is Endhiran (India 2010), which cost an estimated 1.9 billion rupees ($42 million; £27,088,475) to make.
The most expensive movie made is Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007 USA), which had an estimated production budget of around $300 million (then £146 million). If the budgets of films are adjusted for inflation to 2010 dollars, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End remains the most expensive production of all time, its $315 million budget narrowly beating Cleopatra (1963 USA), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (both UK), which cost $44 million (then £16 million) in 1963, the equivalent of $310
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At a cost of $130 million (including marketing costs) Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was the most expensive video game-inspired movie ever made. Released in 2001 by Columbia Pictures, it recouped just $32 million at the US box office, meaning it was also one of the least successful video game-inspired movies ever made. Lastly, the film was the first computer-generated animated movie with photorealistic characters. GWR Video Gamer’s Edition 2008, title: Most expensive video-game inspired movie.
The budget for Katsuhiro Otomo’s (Japan) Steamboy (Japan, 2004) anime is estimated to have reached 2.4 billion Yen ($20 million; £12 million), making it the most expensive animated movie in Japanese history. Set in Victorian England, Steamboy is a retro science fiction saga in which a powerful new energy source is released into the midst of the steam age.
A five-piece Premier drum kit used by The Who’s Keith Moon (UK) between 1968 and 1970 sold for £139,650 ($252,487 buyer’s commission included), to a private US bidder at a Christie’s auction in London, UK on 29 September 2004. The buyer paid nine times the pre-sale estimate of £15,000 ($26,740).
The most expensive glove sold at auction was sold for $420,000 (£267,879) and was bought by Ponte 16 Resort (China) in New York, New York, USA, on 21 November 2009. The glove belonged to Michael Jackson and is now on display at the MJ Gallery at Ponte 16 in Macau, China. The auction was conducted by Julien’s Auctions (USA) at the Hard Rock Cafe at Times Square in Manhattan.
The highest price paid at auction for a piece of Chinese furniture is $1,102,500 (£708,002) for a Ming Dynasty, marble, huanghuali and tielimu standing screen, sold at Christie’s, New York, USA on 19 September 1996. The screen dates from the 17th century and was bought by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA.