The most money anyone has paid for a fortune cookie is £10,000 ($17,473) at an auction at the Chinese New Year Gala Dinner in aid of Kids at the Banqueting House, Whitehall, London, United Kingdom, on 8 February 2006.

The most valuable football shirt in the world is the No. 10 shirt worn by Pele in the 1970 World Cup final which was sold at Christie’s, London, UK on 27 March 2002 for £157,750 ($225,109), over three times the expected price. It was sold by Italian international Roberto Rosato who exchanged shirts with the star after Brazil’s 4-1 victory in Mexico City. Pele scored the first goal of the game.

Rio Ferdinand (UK) continued to be the world’s most expensive defender in July 2002 when he joined Manchester United from Leeds United in a deal worth £30 million ($46.9 million). £26 million will be paid to Leeds United within the first 12 months, with £13 million payable immediately. A further maximum sum of £4 million pounds is to be paid on a deferred basis, the timing of which will be dependent upon the performance of Manchester United Football Club.

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 Continue reading →

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 hair cut cost £8,000 ($16,420) and was made by Stuart Phillips at the Stuart Phillips Salon in Covent Garden, London, UK, on 29 October 2007. The person who made the appointment was Beverley Lateo of Pisa, Italy, who could not find a hairdresser that she like in all of Italy, so looked elsewhere in Europe and in April 2007 found Stuart Phillips – a name she recognised from numerous British magazine, as the official hairstylist to The British Academy Television Awards (since Continue reading →

The most valuable Christmas card in the world was sold at auction in Devizes, Wiltshire, UK on 24 November 2001 for £20,000 ($28,158) and bought by an anonymous bidder. Measuring 13 x 8 cm (5 x 3 in) it was sent by Sir Henry Cole, a Bath-born businessman to his grandmother in 1843 and is hand-coloured by the London illustrator John Calcott Horsley. The Christmas card is also considered the world’s first Christmas card. A total 1,000 were lithographed and sold at a shilling each. Continue reading →

A 76-cm (30-in) long ginrin showa koi, which won supreme championship in nationwide Japanese koi shows in 1976, 1977, 1979 and 1980, was sold two years later for 17 million yen (then £50,000). In March 1986 this ornamental carp was acquired by Derry Evans (UK), owner of the Kent Koi Centre near Sevenoaks, Kent, UK for an undisclosed sum, but the 15-year-old fish died five months later. It has since been stuffed and mounted to preserve its beauty.

The most expensive leg of ham commercially available is a 7 kg (15 lb) heavy Albarragena Jamon Iberico de Bellota retailing at £1,800 ($2,682) and is sold at the Food Hall in Sefridges, London, UK as of 17 January 2010 The 7kg (15lb) ham leg comes with its own DNA certificate as proof of authenticity. Pig farmer and ham expert Manuel Maldonado selected 50 pigs that were reared in Extremadura in western Spain. The pigs were fed on a diet of acorns and roots to Continue reading →